The American Bankruptcy Institute (ABI) has announced that Ted Gavin, CTP, a founding partner and managing director of corporate restructuring and public affairs strategy firm Gavin/Solmonese, has been selected by the ABI Board of Directors to be President. He became president for a one-year term at ABI’s 2018 Annual Spring Meeting, held April 19-22 in Washington, D.C.
With nearly 12,000 members, the ABI is the largest multi-disciplinary, nonpartisan organization dedicated to research and education on matters related to insolvency. Its members include attorneys, accountants, bankers, judges, professors, lenders, turnaround specialists and other bankruptcy professionals from across the country.
“I am proud to call myself an ABI member and am honored to serve ABI in this position,” said Gavin. “This is an exciting time to be a member of the ABI, as our industry is changing and our organization is and will continue to respond to these changes. I look forward to serving the membership in the coming year.”
Gavin has been an ABI member since 2003. He has served as Vice President-Development, co-chair of ABI’s Mid-Atlantic Bankruptcy Workshop and contributing editor for the ABI Journal’s Last in Line column. He formerly served as co-chair of ABI’s Financial Advisors Committee and is a former co-chair and education director of ABI’s Ethics and Professional Compensation Committee. A Millenium-level contributor to ABI’s Anthony H.N. Schnelling Endowment Fund, Gavin also served on ABI’s National Ethics Standards Task Force and chaired the group’s Committee on Statutory Committee Solicitation Protocols Committee. In addition, he is a member of the ABI Commission on Consumer Bankruptcy.
Gavin specializes in complex bankruptcy matters, representing debtors and creditors as financial advisor, asset-sale advisor, restructuring officer and other types of responsible parties. He is frequently appointed as liquidating trustee, litigation trustee or plan administrator over post-confirmation liquidating trusts. He is an expert on rapid § 363 asset-sale processes, SPM gifts/carve-outs and evaluation of claims against insiders.
He received his B.S. in business and information systems in 1999 from the University of Phoenix. Gavin also attended the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, studying music theory and education.
The complete list of directors and officers is available at http://www.abiworld.org/Content/NavigationMenu/About_ABI/Board_of_Directors/Board_of_Directors.htm.