Lacey Bryan is a member of Markus Williams and concentrates her practice in the areas of commercial bankruptcies and restructurings, creditors’ rights, receiverships, and commercial litigation. Prior to joining the firm, Lacey served as a law clerk for Judge Michael E. Romero of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Colorado and was the Staff Attorney for the Chapter 13 Trustee in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Lacey was also previously in private practice at a boutique law firm in Littleton, Colorado, focusing on bankruptcy and commercial litigation practices.
Represented secured lenders and protected creditor interested in many commercial chapter 11 bankruptcy cases and adversary pleadings.
Represented Chapter 7 bankruptcy trustees in a wide variety of bankruptcy matters, including nondischargeability proceedings, fraudulent transfer and preference actions, and objections to claims, and objections to claimed exemptions.
Represented Chapter 7 bankruptcy trustee in a real estate ponzi scheme case, assisting in the liquidation of multiple properties, the avoidance of liens, and negotiations with creditors with respect to payments.
Represented Chapter 7 bankruptcy trustee in the bankruptcy case of a for-profit college with multiple campuses across the country, assisting in the negotiations with multiple landlords, the liquidation of assets, preference actions, and a lawsuit against the former officers and directors.
Represented Chapter 11 debtors-in-possession in two quick-service restaurant franchise bankruptcy cases involving franchisees operating more than 100 locations each, successfully completing sales of the majority of locations through bankruptcy auctions.
Represented debtors-in-possession in Chapter 11 proceedings
involving a multi-brand commercial fitness equipment business, resulting in the
sale of substantially all assets and confirmation of a Chapter 11 Plan.
Moderator, In Case You Missed It, ABI Rocky Mountain
Conference 2026
Speaker, Advising a Struggling Business, Oklahoma Bar
Association Advanced Bankruptcy Seminar 2025
Panelist, You’ve Ignored Subchapter V Long Enough: Tips
for Debtor and Creditor Lawyers, ABI Winter Leadership Conference 2025
Panelist, Rising Together: Resilience, Representation,
and Retention of Women in Law and Leadership, IWIRC On the Vine Conference
2025
Moderator, Beyond the Buzzwords: Promoting Mentorship and
Inclusivity in Today’s World, ABI Rocky Mountain Conference 2025
Moderator, Anticipating a Cannabis Receivership –
Questions You Should Ask Before Getting Involved, Commercial Receivers
Association Annual Conference 2025
Speaker, You’re Getting 86’ed: Sticky Issues in the Assumption of Franchisee Agreements, Oklahoma Bar Association Advanced Bankruptcy Seminar 2024
Moderator, Merchant Cash Advance and Factoring, ABI Rocky Mountain Conference 2024
Presenter, Issues in the Assumption of Franchise Agreements, Oklahoma Bar Association Advanced Bankruptcy Seminar, December 2024
Panelist, Executory Contracts in Bankruptcy: How Can We Get Through This Together (or Not), IWIRC On the Vine Conference, November 2023
Panelist, I Got 99 Problems but Fixing my Financial Affairs Ain’t One: Small Business
Reorganization Act of 2019, Wyoming State Bar Annual Meeting, September 2023
Panelist, Ethics Jeopardy, ABI Rocky Mountain Conference 2023
Presenter, 2021 Bankruptcy Bench-Bar Roundtable, Faculty of Federal Advocates, November 2021
Presenter, Bankruptcy Case Law Update, Colorado Bar Association, May 2019
Pigs, Hogs & Nest Eggs: When Is It ‘Too Much, Too Late’ for Retirement Fund Contributions in Chapter 13?, NACTT Academy Online Publication, May 2016
Presenter, Herbert M. Graves Basic Bankruptcy Seminar, Oklahoma Bar Association, May 2014
American Bankruptcy Institute “40 Under 40” Class of 2025
American Bankruptcy Institute Rocky Mountain Conference Planning Committee, 2025-Present
Board Member, Mountain/Desert Network, International Women’s Insolvency and Restructuring Confederation
Co-Chair, Bankruptcy Subsection of Business Law Section, Colorado Bar Association (2021-2025)
Guest Lecturer, University of Tulsa College of Law, Bankruptcy and creditors’ rights course (October 2013, November 2014)
Member, American Bankruptcy Institute
Member, International Women’s Insolvency and Restructuring Confederation
Member, Faculty of Federal Advocates
Member, Colorado Bar Association
Member, Oklahoma Bar Association
University of Tulsa, J.D., 2013 (With Highest Honors; Tulsa Law Review Executive Board)
University of North Texas, B.A., 2009
Law Clerk to the Honorable Michael E. Romero, U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Colorado
Attorney at Wadsworth Garber Warner Conrardy, PC (Littleton, CO)
Staff Attorney for the Chapter 13 Trustee for the Northern District of Oklahoma (Tulsa, OK)
areas of concentration
Bankruptcy and Restructuring
Commercial Litigation
Creditors’ Rights
Fiduciary Litigation
Foreclosure
Receiverships
Awards and Recognition
Super Lawyers Illinois Rising Star, Business Bankruptcy (2016)
admitted
Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals
Tenth Circuit Bankruptcy Appellate Panel
U.S. District Court, Colorado
U.S. District Court, Wyoming
U.S. District Court, Northern, Eastern, and Western Oklahoma
Colorado
Wyoming
Oklahoma