Christopher A. Ward chairs Polsinelli PC’s Bankruptcy & Financial Restructuring Practice and is the managing shareholder of the firm’s Wilmington, Del., office. He also is ABI’s President. Mr. Ward has represented clients in corporate bankruptcy, financial restructuring, business divorce, bet-the-company litigation and distressed-asset sales for the last two decades. He has experience in representing chapter 11 debtors, boards of directors and managers, litigants and official committees. Mr. Ward co-authored ABI’s A Business Creditors’ Guide to Distressed Vendors, Debt Collection and Bankruptcy and was editor and co-author of ABI’s The Chief Restructuring Officer’s Guide to Bankruptcy, and he is co-editor of ABI’s forthcoming book, Nonbankruptcy Alternatives. He is routinely quoted in the Wall Street Journal, Law360 and The Deal on restructuring issues. Mr. Ward received his B.A. from Moravian College in 1995 and his J.D. cum laude from Widener University School of Law in 1999.