Lacey S. Bryan

LACEY is a member of Markus Williams Young & Hunsicker LLC, a boutique bankruptcy and restructuring law firm in Denver, where she represents commercial debtors-in-possession and creditors across all industries in chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings, as well as in related commercial litigation and out-of-court workouts. She has extensive experience representing chapter 7 trustees, state court receivers, creditors and other interested parties in all bankruptcy chapters. She frequently represents clients in adversary proceedings and contested matters, relief-from-stay matters and property disputes. Previously, she was a judicial law clerk for Hon. Michael E. Romero of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Colorado and Chief Judge for the Bankruptcy Appellate Panel for the Tenth Circuit. She also previously was the staff attorney for the Standing Chapter 13 Trustee for the Northern District of Oklahoma.

Lacey recently completed her four-year tenure as co-chair of the Colorado Bar Association’s Bankruptcy Subsection and sits on the board of the Mountain Desert Network of the International Women’s Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation (IWIRC). She frequently speaks on such topics as merchant cash advances, ethics and DEI, subchapter V, executory contracts and bankruptcy case law updates, and she has presented at programs hosted by ABI, IWIRC and state bar associations. She is admitted to practice in Colorado, Oklahoma and Wyoming, as well as before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.

Having spent many of her childhood years in a financially insecure household, Lacey saw her parents balance an extremely tight budget to overcome several particularly difficult periods. That experience instilled in her the importance of hard work and precision, and helped her gain a deep understanding of the real human impact of financial distress. In her community work, she serves as governance co-chair for The Center on Colfax, the largest LGBTQ+ community center in the Rocky Mountain region, where she helps lead board development and event-planning efforts.