Alexandria, Va. — The American Bankruptcy Institute (ABI) announces that Matthew Faga of Markus Williams Young & Hunsicker (Denver) has been elected to ABI’s Board of Directors. An ABI member since 2010 and a member of the inaugural 2017 class of ABI’s “40 Under 40” program, Faga is the co-chair of ABI’s Rocky Mountain Bankruptcy Conference, has served as co-chair of ABI’s Emerging Industries and Technology Committee, and has spoken and written about key bankruptcy issues. He will serve a term of three years on the 60-member ABI Board of Directors.

Faga is a partner and member of Markus Williams Young & Hunsicker and concentrates his practice on commercial restructuring, dissolution, pre-bankruptcy workouts, bankruptcy and insolvency law, with a focus on strategic resolutions of client matters. He represents all key stakeholders, including corporate debtors and debtors-in-possession, secured and unsecured creditors, trustees, purchasers and fiduciaries in adversary proceedings and throughout bankruptcy chapters 7, 11, 12, 13 and 15. Faga also represents federal and state court-appointed asset and entity receivers in receivership actions, workouts and restructurings in Colorado and Wyoming. In addition, he has significant appellate experience in oral advocacy and brief-writing at both the state and federal court levels. Faga serves as chair or director on various boards, and regularly teaches as an adjunct professor at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law. He is certified in Business Bankruptcy Law by the American Board of Certification.

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.