Steven Reeves Rider

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MARKUS WILLIAMS YOUNG & ZIMMERMANN LLC specializes in the representation of banks, commercial finance companies, equipment lessors, factors, franchise finance companies, SBA lenders, mortgage companies, project finance lenders, and other financial institutions and corporate clients in the western United States. The firm also represents numerous clients in workouts, restructurings, assignments for the benefit of creditors, commercial litigation and bankruptcy proceedings.

Board Certified Specialist, Business Bankruptcy Law & Creditors Rights' Law - American Board of Certification

Steven Rider
Markus Williams Young & Zimmermann LLC
1700 Lincoln St #4000
Denver CO 80203
Tel: 303 830-0800; 303 866-0110
Fax: 303 830-0809
E-mail: srider@markuswilliams.com

Before becoming of counsel with Markus Williams Young & Zimmermann LLC, Steve was the founder of Rider Edwards McAnallen & Taylor, LLC, a firm that specialized in creditor's rights. Steve is accredited as a Business Bankruptcy Specialist and Creditor’s Rights Specialist by the American Board of Certification. Steve is a member of the American Bankruptcy Institute, the Association of Insolvency Advisors, the Turnaround Management Association, and the Independent Bankers of Colorado, where he serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the IBC Education Foundation.

Steve's practice has been concentrated on complex commercial litigation, agribusiness transactions, and the enforcement of creditor’s rights in bankruptcy and insolvency proceedings. Steve has been in private practice since 1977. His clients include the Farm Credit Banks of Wichita, local farm credit system institutions, CoBank, ACB, Ag Services of America, Inc., Land of Lakes, Inc., Midland Loan Services, Centennial Bank of the West, and various community banks in Colorado, Kansas, and Wyoming.

Steve has represented secured creditors, trustees, and unsecured creditors in well over a thousand bankruptcy proceedings. He has been involved in all aspects of bankruptcy, including relief from stay proceedings, cash collateral disputes, plan negotiations, and contested plan confirmation hearings. Although most of his experience has been in chapter 11 reorganizations, he has represented lenders in chapter 7, 12, and 13 cases as well. As counsel for secured creditors and trustees he has been involved in over three hundred reorganization cases involving agricultural borrowers. Among the major bankruptcy cases in which he has been involved are Sand Hills Beef, Heartland, Inc., Geneva Steel, Convergent Communications, PentaStar Communications, and Colorado Greenhouse.

Steve represents lenders in all aspects of state collection proceedings, including foreclosures and replevins. He represents a number of receivers and liquidators, and has experience in both property and equity receiverships. He has assisted in the conduct of numerous auctions and UCC foreclosure sales.

Steve has also represented the interests of small and medium sized business owners in entity organization, corporate governance, financial planning, and merger and acquisition matters. Steve was also lead counsel in an oil and gas royalty dispute between royalty owners and the major oil companies, representing the interest of a royalty owner who successfully challenged millions of dollars of improper expenses deducted from the royalty. The case resulted in major changes in the law of the allowance of transportation and conditioning expenses deductions from the royalty to mineral owners under Colorado law.

Steve has also handled complex litigation for commercial and agricultural lenders, including the defense of numerous lender liability cases. Besides representing creditors before various federal and state administrative agencies, Steve has served as a lobbyist for the interests of various financial institutions before the Colorado General Assembly.