Benjamin E Marcus

Ben Marcus is a highly experienced transactional attorney. Ben has over 30 years of experience representing clients throughout North America in complex commercial arrangements including equity and asset transactions on the buy and sell side, joint venture and development agreements, workouts and restructurings, and contract preparation and review (including the negotiation and execution of Saas and other hosted agreements, and hotel management agreements). Ben has represented companies in many different industries, and regularly advises clients such as community banks, firms offering SaaS, communication tower and wireless network developers, hotel developers and management companies, and sales representatives.

Ben also has extensive experience in business insolvency and restructuring situations, with particular expertise representing clients in the purchase of businesses that are insolvent or in Chapter 11 reorganization proceedings, advising commercial lenders on workouts and restructuring of their most significant troubled lending relationships, and counseling executives on their options in a stressed business environment. Ben’s transactional skill and experience combined with his sophisticated understanding of insolvency and restructuring law allow him to quickly identify legal issues that can arise and provide clients with comprehensive and creative solutions that meet their business needs.

-Maine State Bar Association

-New Hampshire Bar Association

-Turnaround Managment Association

-Author, “The Changing Contours of the Absolute Priority Rule in Reorganization Proceedings Under Chapter 11 of The Bankruptcy Code,” Volume 7, No. 6, Maine Bar Journal

-Co-Author, “Directors in the Twilight Zone II,” International Association of Restructuring, Insolvency and Bankruptcy Professionals, chapter discussing insolvency (2005)

Cornell Law School

LLB, magna cum laude

1986

Bates College

B.A., cum laude

1982

AV Preeminent

Martindale Hubbell

Mergers and Acquisitions Law Lawyer of the Year

Best Lawyers

2014

Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law Lawyer of the Year

Best Lawyers

2020

Top 100

New England Super Lawyers