Jeffrey Marks focuses his practice in the areas of bankruptcy, Chapter 11 reorganizations, debtors’ and creditors’ rights, and out-of-court workouts and restructurings.

He represents, in both transaction and litigation matters, various parties in insolvency proceedings and stakeholders in restructurings including debtor in possession lenders, senior secured and junior lien lenders, creditors’ committees, debtors, equity holders and business acquirers. He has been listed multiple times in Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business, The Best Lawyers in America and as an Ohio Super Lawyer by Thomson Reuters.

Jeffrey has concentrated on insolvency law since serving as a law clerk to a US Bankruptcy Judge in the Southern District of Ohio shortly after the 1978 Bankruptcy Code took effect. He is a frequent speaker at insolvency conferences. Jeffrey is president of the Tri-State Association for Corporate Renewal, a member of the American Bankruptcy Institute and is past chair of the Cincinnati Bar Association’s Bankruptcy Law Committee. He also served for several years as a member of the Advisory Committee for Local Rules of the US Bankruptcy Court, Southern District of Ohio.

Recent engagements include: bank group agents in out-of-court workouts and Chapter 11 proceedings of retirement community borrowers, real estate developers and manufacturers; commodity pools in Refco Chapter 11 proceeding; bidder for Delphi’s catalyst business; secured lenders in Chapter 11 proceedings of PLVTZ (Levitz Furniture), Dwight’s Piano (formerly Baldwin Piano & Organ) and Harvey Electronics; state court receivers for home builder and medical equipment dealer; Enron Creditors’ Committee; Committee of Chrysler Affected Dealers; SHC (Top-Flite) Creditors’ Committee; committee members (book publisher) in  Borders, Advanced Marketing Services, Koen Books and Sher Distributing; and Chapter 11 debtors EaglePicher Holdings, WCI Steel and Lodestar Energy.