Mr. Edward T. Gavin

Edward T. Gavin, CTP is the managing director and founding partner of Gavin/Solmonese LLC in Wilmington, Del., where he leads the firm?s Corporate Recovery Practice and specializes in complex bankruptcy matters, representing debtors and creditors as financial advisor, asset sale advisor, CRO or in other responsible party roles. He is frequently appointed liquidating trustee, litigation trustee or plan administrator for post-confirmation liquidating trusts. Mr. Gavin provides expert testimony on asset sale processes under § 363, ordinary-course-of-business defenses in preference litigation, and fiduciary duties of management. His engagements have included responsibilities as CRO, bankruptcy and nonbankruptcy financial advisor to debtors and creditors? committees, interim-management appointments, business viability assessments, mergers and acquisitions, business integrations and strategic sales, corporate strategy and policy development and implementation, e-commerce and marketing strategy development, process re-engineering, and enterprise resource planning (ERP) system implementation and assessment. Mr. Gavin is a former ABI President, and during his term he created ABI?s Task Force on Veterans & Servicemembers? Affairs. He also served as ABI?s Vice President-Development, co-chair of ABI?s Financial Advisors & Investment Banking Committee (2010-12), and co-chair and Education Director of ABI?s Ethics Committee (2008-10). In addition, he co-chaired ABI?s Mid-Atlantic Bankruptcy Workshop from 2009-14. Mr. Gavin writes the ?Turnaround Tactics? blog for Forbes and has written for the ABI Journal, among others. He also served on ABI?s Civility Task Force and National Ethics Standards Task Force, leading that group?s Solicitation Protocols Subcommittee. Mr. Gavin hosts Business/Disrupted, a more-or-less weekly radio show and podcast discussing the unappreciated business aspects of everyday things. He also co-authored ABI?s Chief Restructuring Officer?s Guide to Bankruptcy. Mr. Gavin attended the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, studying music theory and education.