Mr. Christopher A. Ward

Christopher A. Ward co-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 focuses his practice on corporate bankruptcy, financial restructuring, bankruptcy and distressed litigation, and distressed asset sales, as well as nonbankruptcy alternatives. He has been lead chapter 11 debtor?s counsel in Esco Ltd., Lucky?s Markets, Elements Behavioral Health, Orchids Paper Products and Bayou Steel Group, among many others. Mr. Ward has been recognized for excellence in Delaware Bankruptcy/Restructuring by Chambers USA since 2010, in Delaware Super Lawyers for Bankruptcy & Creditor Rights since 2014, in Lawdragon 500 Leading U.S. Bankruptcy & Restructuring Lawyers, and in The Best Lawyers in America for Bankruptcy/Restructuring in Delaware since 2015. He serves as an editor and contributor to the interactive web version of Polsinelli?s The Devil?s Dictionary of Bankruptcy Terms. In addition, he is the editor of ABI?s The Professional?s Guide to Non-Bankruptcy Alternatives, a co-author of The Zone of (In)solvency: Fiduciary Duties and Standards of Review for Corporations and Limited Liability Companies and A Business Creditors? Guide to Distressed Vendors, Debt Collection and Bankruptcy, and the editor and a co-author of The Chief Restructuring Officer?s Guide to Bankruptcy. 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.