Alexandria, Va. — The American Bankruptcy Institute (ABI) announces that Christopher A. Ward of Polsinelli (Wilmington, Del.) has been named to a two-year term as ABI Vice President-Development. An ABI member since 2003 and a member of the Board of Directors since 2016, Ward is the chair and education director of the ABI Technology & IP Committee, a member of the Mid-Atlantic ABI Endowment Committee and a co-author of ABI’s A Business Creditor's Guide to Distressed Vendors, Debt Collection and Bankruptcy and The Chief Restructuring Officer’s Guide to Bankruptcy: Views from Leading Insolvency Professionals.

As co-chair of Polsinelli’s Bankruptcy and Financial Restructuring practice and managing shareholder of its Delaware office, Ward routinely tackles financial restructurings and litigation. He has significant experience in representing chapter 11 debtors and unsecured creditors’ committees, working both sides of the restructuring industry. Ward is ranked in Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business for Bankruptcy/Restructuring (Delaware), and has been named in The Best Lawyers in America for Bankruptcy and Creditor/Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Law and in Delaware Super Lawyers as a Rising Star for 2012. He received his B.A. from Moravian College in 1995 and his J.D. cum laude from Widener University School of Law in 1999.

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

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