David Marcus Email & Phone Number

US

• Lead internal counsel for Colorado and Arizona for all transactional and litigation matters including entity structure and formation, contract drafting and review, contract disputes, and risk/liability mitigation.
• Managed external legal representation in high-stakes arbitration cases valued at multi-million dollars, ensuring strategic alignment with company objectives and achieving favorable outcomes.
• Revamped critical company contracts to proactively minimize risk exposure and liability, enhancing overall legal protection and safeguarding company interests.
• Provided expert testimony before the Colorado Senate on legislative matters affecting the company, effectively communicating key insights and recommendations to inform decision-making processes.
• Negotiated advantageous settlements to resolve vendor disputes, resulting in significant cost savings for the company while maintaining positive vendor relationships.
• Implemented a comprehensive reorganization of the company's structure within Colorado, strategically designed to reduce legal liabilities.

Golden, CO, US

Denver, Colorado, US

• Fractional general counsel to multiple software development, construction, commercial real estate, and consumer products entities, advising on corporate governance, regulatory compliance, intellectual property, risk.
• Won favorable jury verdict in negligence and consumer protection action against custom homebuilder of $1.8 million home.
• Defeated multiple defamation claims via motions to dismiss or for summary judgment.
• Negotiated favorable settlement for class action bank overdraft litigation.
• Avoided breach of contract litigation by pre-suit negotiation of remedy on behalf of multi-national consumer products company.
• Presented successful oral argument at Colorado Court of Appeals on breach of lease and attorney fees.

• Representative matters:
• Domestication of a Hong Kong judgment, unwinding of a fraudulent transfer of real estate, and an award of attorneys fees totaling $7 million judgment on COCCA, conspiracy claims for a client seeking payment for.
• Prevailed in partnership dispute allowing distribution of proceeds from $6.4 million real estate sale;
• 2019 Top-10 Colorado jury verdict of $1.6 million for client injured as a result of a residential construction design defect;
• $1.2 million judgment for defective home systems installation;
• Favorable verdict at trial for client defending $1 million claim for successor in interest liability;

Golden - Genesee Exit Off I-70, Colorado, US

Jd, Law

Ba, Political Science, Anthropology

Education record