The American Bankruptcy Institute (ABI) announced that Ted Gavin of Gavin/Solmonese LLC (Wilmington, Del.) has been selected by the ABI Board of Directors to be President-Elect. He will become president for a one-year term, starting at ABI’s 2018 Annual Spring Meeting. An ABI member since 2003, Gavin has served as Vice President- Development, co-chair of ABI’s Mid-Atlantic Bankruptcy Workshop and as a contributing editor for the ABI Journal’s "Last in Line and Financial Statements" columns. 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 Century Council-level contributor to ABI’s Anthony H.N. Schnelling Endowment Fund, Gavin also serves on ABI’s National Ethics Standards Task Force and chairs the group’s Committee Solicitation Protocols Committee.

Gavin is a managing director and founding partner at Gavin/Solmonese LLC, a corporate restructuring and public affairs strategies firm based in Wilmington, Del. He specializes in complex bankruptcy matters, representing debtors and creditors as financial advisor, asset-sale advisor, restructuring officer and other types of responsible parties. Gavin is frequently appointed 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.