New Committee Leadership Team Announced
We are happy to announce that, after receiving substantial interest from Secured Credit Committee (SCC) members, four new SCC leaders were appointed. Please congratulate Damian Schaible, Arnold Rosenberg, Mark Stingley and Terri Gardner on their new positions. (Their backgrounds and specific appointments are noted below.) We could not be more pleased to have such dynamic and capable individuals join Co-Chairs Doug Deutsch and Scott Avila and Education Director Stephen V. Falanga on the new SCC's leadership team.
We are all very excited about the upcoming first year of the SCC. We all have the opportunity to define what the new SCC is going to be. In addition to a great newsletter (evidenced by this issue), new member outreach, exciting programs at ABI's Annual Spring Meeting and Winter Leadership Conference, and invigorating listserve discussions, we expect to try some typical and not-so-typical (we will see) ways to get members involved in SCC and to make SCC one of the most active and interesting ABI committees. We invite you to get in on the ground floor. GET INVOLVED NOW!!! Please reach out to SCC's new membership director Mark Stingley or to SCC's co-chairs (Doug Deutsch and Scott Avila) if something catches your interest or if you have an idea you think that the SCC should pursue. We look forward to hearing from you!
Listserve Facilitator
Terri L. Gardner
Nelson, Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
Terri is a partner at the Raleigh, N.C., law firm of Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP. She is certified by the American Board of Certification and the North Carolina State Bar as a Business Bankruptcy Specialist. Terri served as chair of the Bankruptcy Section of the North Carolina Bankruptcy Section in 2001. She has been active in ABI for many years, having served as a co-chair of the Ethics Committee, chair of the Southeast Bankruptcy Workshop and a member of the ABI Practitioner Fee Panel that assisted with the 2008 Chapter 11 Fee Study. Terri was named one of the "Top 50 Women Attorneys in North Carolina" and a "Legal Elite" and "Super Lawyer in Bankruptcy." Terri was also named in Chambers USA as a leading lawyer in North Carolina.
Membership Relations/Networking Director
Mark Stingley
Bryan Cave LLP
Mark is a partner in the Bankruptcy, Restructuring, and Creditors' Rights Client Service Group of Bryan Cave LLP in Kansas City, Mo. His practice focuses on the representation of lending institutions in litigation and insolvency matters nationally. Mark also serves as an adjunct professor of law at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law teaching its "Debtor Creditor" course. He has authored and co-authored numerous articles including a chapter in Thomson West's book Strategic Alternatives for Distressed Businesses.
Newsletter Editor
Damian Schaible
Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP
Damian is a partner in the Insolvency & Restructuring Group of Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP in New York and has represented debtors, creditors, agent banks, lenders, asset purchasers and other strategic parties in a wide variety of contexts. Damian served a lead role in representing Delta Air Lines in its chapter 11 restructuring and is presently counsel to Frontier Airlines in its chapter 11 case. He has also represented agent banks in a number of restructurings, including those of The Tribune Company and C-BASS. In addition to restructuring matters, Damian has worked on a number of complex aircraft finance matters, representing owner participants, portfolio purchasers and lessees. In addition to his work on the SCC, Damian is the chair of the Courts Subcommittee of the New York City Bar's Committee on Bankruptcy and Corporate Reorganization. In his spare time, Damian enjoys travel, scuba diving, hiking, cycling and golfing (very poorly, we understand), and he serves on the Board of Directors of the Lighthouse International Film Festival.
Special Projects Leader
Arnold Rosenberg
Thomas Jefferson School of Law
Arnie is assistant dean and a professor of law at Thomas Jefferson School of Law in San Diego, where he teaches Bankruptcy and Secured Transactions. He also administers Thomas Jefferson's online Executive LL.M. program in Financial Services, including a new Concentration in Bankruptcy and Restructuring that begins in fall 2009. A consultant to the World Bank and the People's Bank of China on international best practices in bankruptcy law, Arnie's writings have included a chapter in the American Bar Association publication Practice Under Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code, and an article in the UCC Law Journal on how to apply UCC 9-307(c) to foreign filing systems. Arnie is the incoming chair of the State Bar of California Business Law Section's Consumer Financial Services Committee and previously co-chaired its UCC Committee. After receiving his J.D. at Harvard and before joining the faculty at Thomas Jefferson in 2002, Arnie practiced law for 25 years, primarily as a partner in Bancroft, Avery & McAlister in San Francisco. Arnie is a frequent (though we understand, inept) swing dancer and organizer of the San Diego Doo Wop Meetup Group on meetup.com.