Mary Ellen Wilkie

Summary

Ms. Wilkie practices in the areas of franchising, real estate, bankruptcy and creditor's rights. Such matters include representing local and national businesses in a broad range of issues involving contracts, real estate acquisition, sales, and leasing, finance, bankruptcy, employment, corporate governance and business formation, and franchise purchase and sales, termination, transfer and renewal.
 

Experience

• Representing start-up franchisees in business formation, financing, real estate purchase, sales, leasing.
• Representing lenders and borrowers in connection with the purchase and financing of commercial and residential sites.
• Representing lenders in connection with bankruptcy, judicial and public trustee foreclosure.
• Representing borrowers and lenders in commercial lending and leasing.
• Representing franchisees in franchise termination, transfer, and sales.
• Representing franchisees/franchisors in employment and corporate issues.
• Representing landlords and tenants in negotiating commercial ground and space leases and representing buyers and sellers in real estate acquisitions and sale/leaseback transactions.
• Representing local and national businesses in corporate governance, contracts and all aspects of the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC).
   

Honors / Distinctions

• Co-Editor, “The Bankruptcy Court Report,” The Public Record Corporation, N.A., Quarterly, Summer 1986 - Summer 1987.
• Criminal Law-Counsel for Accused-Due Process Requires Accused be Provided Reasonable Opportunity to Secure Second Test After DWI Test Arrest, 59 N.D. L. Rev. 479 (1983).
• University of North Dakota Law Review
• Order of Barristers
   

Admitted to Practice Before

• Admitted in Colorado

Professional and Community Affiliations

• Colorado Bar Association
• Denver Bar Association