Alexandria, Va. — The American Bankruptcy Institute (ABI) announces that Mark M. Maloney of King & Spalding LLP (Atlanta) has been elected to ABI’s Board of Directors. An ABI member since 2004, Maloney is a co-chair and faculty member for ABI’s annual Litigation Skills Symposium, is a frequent speaker at ABI events, was a contributing editor to the ABI Journal’s “Litigators Perspective” column and is active on ABI’s Unsecured Trade Creditors, Commercial Fraud Task Force and Bankruptcy Litigation Committees. He will serve a term of three years on the 60-member ABI Board of Directors. Maloney is a partner in the Atlanta office of King & Spalding LLP and is a member of its Financial Restructuring Practice Group. His practice includes representation of a broad range of clients in financial restructuring and insolvency matters, and he has represented debtors, official committees, secured and unsecured creditors, and other parties in interest in major chapter 11 bankruptcy cases and other insolvency proceedings in more than 20 states and the District of Columbia. He has been recognized as a leading bankruptcy lawyer in multiple publications, including The Best Lawyers in America, The Legal 500 survey of leading lawyers, The Deal magazine’s list of top bankruptcy lawyers, Atlanta Magazine’s list of “Georgia Super Lawyers,” and GeorgiaTrend magazine’s “Legal Elite.” Maloney is a Fellow in the American College of Bankruptcy and is also a Board member of the Southeastern Bankruptcy Law Institute. He received his B.B.A. cum laude in banking and finance from the University of Mississippi and his J.D. magna cum laude from Washington & Lee University. The complete list of directors and officers is available at http://go.abi.org/board. ### 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 more than 13,000 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.abiworld.org/conferences.html.