Alexandria, Va. — ABI announces that Evan J. Zucker of Blank Rome LLP (New York) has been elected to ABI’s Board of Directors. An ABI member since 2007, Zucker is a co-chair on ABI’s International North American Insolvency Program Advisory Board and serves on ABI’s International Caribbean Insolvency Symposium Advisory Board, was the special projects leader for ABI’s International Committee, was named to ABI’s “40 Under 40” 2019 class of honorees and has spoken at ABI events on key cross-border restructuring issues.

Zucker is Of Counsel in Blank Rome LLP’s Finance, Bankruptcy and Restructuring group, where he concentrates his practice on corporate reorganizations and related complex litigation in national and cross-border matters. He frequently represents foreign representatives in chapter 15 proceedings, creditors’ committees, secured creditors, indenture trustees, executory contract parties and other key parties in interest. In 2022, Zucker was inducted as a member of the International Insolvency Institute and received Global Restructuring Review’s “40 Under 40” award and INSOL International’s Future Forty award. Prior to becoming a member of the International Insolvency Institute, Zucker chaired the International Insolvency Institute’s NextGen Program. He currently is both vice-chair of the Chapter 11 Advisory Committee and a member of the Junior Lawyer Training Initiative for the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for Eastern District of New York.

Zucker also is co-chair of Blank Rome LLP’s New York Pro Bono Committee and an adjunct professor on bankruptcy practice at St. John’s University School of Law, where he teaches both J.D. and LL.M. classes. He routinely publishes and speaks on bankruptcy topics, including the model laws promulgated by UNCITRAL’s Working Group V, asset-tracing and judgment-enforcement issues in insolvency proceedings, and the causes of retail insolvencies around the world. Previously, Zucker clerked for Hon. Jerome Feller, a U.S. Bankruptcy Judge for the Eastern District of New York. He received his B.B.A. with high distinction from Emory University and his J.D. cum laude from St. John’s University School of Law.

The complete list of directors and officers is available at http://www.abi.org/about-us/board-directors.

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