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Mr. James T. Markus

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Mr. James T. Markus

James T. Markus is a co-founder and member of Markus Williams Young & Hunsicker LLC in Denver, where he specializes in the representation of debtors, secured creditors, lessors, asset-purchasers, official committees and trustees in workouts, distressed asset sales, restructurings and chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings. He is a former ABI president, as well as a former director, president and chairman of theAmerican Board of Certification. He also is Board Certified by the American Board of Certification inBusiness Bankruptcy Law. Mr. Markus is a former president of the Rocky Mountain Chapter of theTurnaround Management Association, is a Fellow in the American College of Bankruptcy and is admitted to the Colorado and Illinois State Bars. He also co-founded ABI?s Rocky Mountain BankruptcyConference and has lectured before ABI, the American Rocky Mountain and Chicago Bar Associations,Equipment Leasing Association, Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., Savings and Community Lender?s Association and the Turnaround Management Association. Mr. Markus is an ex officio member of ABI?sCommission to Study the Reform of Chapter 11 and is rated AV-Preeminent by Martindale-Hubbell, and he has been listed as a ?Top Lawyer in Denver Area,? ?Best Lawyers Lawyer of the Year ? Bankruptcy and Creditor/Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Law,? ?Colorado Super Lawyer,? ?DenverBest Lawyer,? ?Denver Lawyer of the Year-Bankruptcy & Creditor Debtor Rights? and one of ?America?s Most Honored Professionals.? He received his B.S.E. in chemical engineering with high honors from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and his J.D. from the University of Michigan School of Law.