Alexandria, Va. — The American Bankruptcy Institute (ABI) announces that Katherine Catanese of Foley & Lardner (New York) has been elected to ABI’s Board of Directors. An ABI member since 2005, Catanese is the co-chair of the ABI Caribbean Insolvency Symposium, served on the advisory board of ABI’s Mid-Level Program while also being honored in the 2018 class of ABI’s “40 Under 40” program. She will serve a term of three years on the 60-member ABI Board of Directors.

Catanese effectively and efficiently handles various cross-border fraud matters. She represents companies, investors and hedge funds — both onshore and offshore — in bankruptcy ligation, including involuntary bankruptcies and chapter 15 bankruptcies. Catanese also assists companies with maximizing the value of their assets through both in- and out-of-court asset sales. During the COVID-19 pandemic, she represented a prominent seafood restaurant chain in avoiding a bankruptcy filing through a successful out-of-court distressed asset sale. Catanese also focuses her practice on helping creditors solve problems related to all aspects of distressed debt. Recently, this has included representing numerous customers in cryptocurrency bankruptcies. She has extensive experience in the representation of trustees regarding the resolution of and objection to bankruptcy claims, pursuit of fraudulent transfer and preference actions, and litigation related to bad-faith bankruptcy filings, Ponzi schemes and § 363 asset sales. Catanese earned her B.A. summa cum laude in psychology in 2001 and her J.D. cum laude in 2004, both from Michigan State University.

The complete list of directors and officers is available at http://www.abi.org/about-us/board-directors.

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ABI is the largest multi-disciplinary, nonpartisan organization dedicated to research and education on matters related to insolvency. ABI was founded in 1982 to provide Congress and the public with unbiased analysis of bankruptcy issues. The ABI membership includes nearly 10,000 attorneys, accountants, bankers, judges, professors, lenders, turnaround specialists and other bankruptcy professionals, providing a forum for the exchange of ideas and information. For additional information on ABI, visit www.abiworld.org. For additional conference information, visit http://www.abi.org/calendar-of-events.