The American Bankruptcy Institute elected Jeffrey N. Pomerantz of Pachulski Stang Ziehl & Jones to serve as president of its board of directors for a one-year term.

An ABI member since 2000, Pomerantz is formerly ABI’s vice president of education and a member of ABI’s executive committee. He has served as a co-chair of ABI’s Southwest Bankruptcy Conference and Bankruptcy Battleground West conference.

Pomerantz is a partner at Pachulski Stang Ziehl & Jones, where his practice includes representing companies and creditors’ committees in complex in and out of court financial restructurings and is generally focused on middle market companies with annual revenues ranging from $25 million $300 million.

He is the author of “The Bare Necessities of Critical Vendor Motions—It’s a Jungle Out There,” 13 Journal of Bankruptcy Law & Practice (2004), and has lectured or been a panelist for ABI, the Los Angeles Bankruptcy Forum, Financial Lawyers Conference and Credit Managers Association.

ABI was founded in 1982 to provide Congress and the public with unbiased analysis of bankruptcy issues. The ABI membership includes more than 12,000 attorneys, accountants, bankers, judges, professors, lenders, turnaround specialists and other bankruptcy professionals.