Alexandria, Va. — The American Bankruptcy Institute (ABI) announces that James E. Van Horn of Barnes & Thornburg (Washington, D.C.) has been elected to ABI’s Board of Directors. An ABI member since 2006, Van Horn has co-chaired the ABI Mid-Atlantic Workshop and is on the advisory board for ABI’s Delaware Views from the Bench Program. He’s a member of ABI’s Business Reorganization and Commercial and Regulatory Law Committees, serves on the regional fundraising committee for the ABI Endowment and is a frequent speaker at ABI’s conferences. He will serve a term of three years on the 60-member ABI Board of Directors.

Van Horn is a partner with Barnes & Thornburg, where he focuses his practice on restructuring and insolvency law. He has deep experience working directly with senior management, investors, creditors and other stakeholders in matters ranging from out-of-court workouts and prepackaged and prearranged chapter 11 reorganizations to cramdown plans of reorganization and sales of substantially all assets. Van Horn is experienced in representing corporate debtors, secured creditors, asset-purchasers, official committees of unsecured creditors, liquidating trustees, receivers, investors and other stakeholders, in bankruptcy courts and other courts throughout the U.S. He is ranked as a Band 1 bankruptcy/restructuring attorney by Chambers USA and is named to The Best Lawyers in America. Van Horn received his J.D. from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law and M.B.A. from the University of Pittsburgh Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business in 2000, and he received his B.A. from Pennsylvania State University in 1995.

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 11,000 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.