Alexandria, Va.— ABI announces that Prof. Jared Ellias of the Hastings College of the Law at the University of California (San Francisco) has been selected as one of ABI’s “40 Under 40,” ABI’s annual program that recognizes 40 of the top insolvency industry professionals under the age of 40. Honorees will be recognized at a special virtual ceremony on February 18, 2021.

Prof. Ellias, the Bion M. Gregory Chair in Business Law and the faculty director of the Center for Business Law, writes and teaches about corporate bankruptcy law and the governance of large firms more generally. He has served as a teaching fellow and lecturer at Stanford Law School and a visiting associate professor at Boston University School of Law. Prof. Ellias joined the UC Hastings faculty in 2014 and became the founding faculty director of the Center for Business Law in 2018. He has received the UC Hastings Foundation Faculty Award for Faculty Scholarship, the highest research award given by UC Hastings to faculty. Prof. Ellias’s research on corporate bankruptcy topics has been published or is forthcoming in leading peer-reviewed law and social science journals (such as the Journal of Legal Studies, the Journal of Legal Analysis and the Journal of Empirical Legal Studies), as well as in leading student-edited law reviews (such as the California Law Review, the Southern California Law Review and the Columbia Law Review Sidebar). Prior to entering academia, Prof. Ellias was an associate in private practice at Brown Rudnick LLP in New York, where he represented financial institutions and ad hoc and statutory creditor committees in corporate restructuring transactions, both in and out of bankruptcy court. He received his J.D. from Columbia Law School in 2008 and his A.B. from the University of Michigan in 2005.

“Accomplished in both their careers and communities, the 2020 class of honorees is an inspiration for the future of the insolvency community,” said ABI Executive Director Amy Quackenboss. “We look forward to collaborating with this diverse collection of young leaders in the full range of ABI's activities to advance the profession.”

The “40 Under 40” winners are distinguished by professional achievements and service and were selected by a group of experienced professionals from ABI’s current leadership. Nominations were submitted earlier this year by the candidates themselves or by colleagues via the initiative’s website, http://abi40under40.org. More than 200 candidates, each with outstanding records of professional achievement and community leadership, were evaluated by 20 judges. The majority of the applicants were partners, directors or managing directors at their firms.

Click here to view the full list of the 2020 “40 Under 40” honorees.

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