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E-mail:
ellis@shumakerwilliams.com
Martin
B. Ellis joined the Firm in October 1999 as a shareholder. He
is a member of the Firm's Corporate and Financial Services Department.
Mr. Ellis specializes in all aspects of bank and thrift representation,
including regulatory matters; consumer, commercial, real estate
and wholesale finance, corporate and general business transactions;
workouts, restructuring and bankruptcy; administrative agency
hearings (zoning and liquor licenses); and banking and commercial
litigation.
Prior
to joining the Firm, Mr. Ellis practiced at several Baltimore
law firms handling such diverse matters as the acquisition, renovation,
leasing and ultimately sale of a major Baltimore Inner Harbor
hotel/restaurant complex; the sale and acquisition of a number
of businesses, including several bar/restaurants; numerous innovative
business contracts and agreements in the telecommunications industry;
and a myriad of banking, business and real estate contracts, forms
and agreements. Mr. Ellis also served as principal banking/regulatory
counsel to the then newly created State of Maryland Deposit Insurance
Fund in its capacity as receiver of the largest of the failed
thrifts during Maryland's mid-80's savings and loan crisis, earning
commendations from the Governors of Maryland and Delaware for
resolving ownership/operational issues for a Maryland Eastern
Shore tomato cannery. Mr. Ellis also drafted Maryland corrective
savings and loan legislation.
In
addition, Mr. Ellis was formerly Senior Vice President and General
Counsel of a $1.5 billion Baltimore-based, regional national bank.
He has been recognized as an expert in federal and state consumer
credit regulation, as well as commercial loan documentation.
Mr.
Ellis is co-author of "The Electronic Fund Transfer Act and
Federal Reserve Board Regulation E: A Compliance Guide for Financial
Institutions," Prentice-Hall, 1983. He has been a frequent
lecturer appearing in a number of programs on behalf of the Maryland
Association of Mortgage Brokers and the Pennsylvania Association
of Mortgage Bankers, addressing such topics as Fair Lending Laws,
the Uniform Commercial Code and Electronic Banking Laws, as well
as the Maryland Institute for Continuing Professional Education
of Lawyers, Inc., addressing such topics as Maryland's Mortgage
Lender Laws; Secured Transactions under the Uniform Commercial
Code; the ABC's of Conservatorship and Receivership of Failing
and Failed Banks; and the Auto Dealers' Institute. He has written
extensively in all of these areas of the law.
Mr.
Ellis is past Chairman of the Consumer Credit Committee of the
Business Law Section of the Maryland State Bar Association, is
a member of the Business Law Section of the Maryland State and
American Bar Associations and is a member of the Baltimore County
Bar Association. Mr. Ellis is admitted to practice law in Maryland,
and before the United States Supreme Court, the Fourth Circuit
Court of Appeals, the United States District Courts and Bankruptcy
Courts for the District of Maryland, as well as the Maryland Court
of Appeals and all other state courts in Maryland.
Mr.
Ellis received his Juris Doctorate, with honor, from the University
of Maryland. He was named to the Order of the Coif and received
two American Jurisprudence Awards in Criminal Law and Civil Procedure.
Mr. Ellis received a Bachelor of Science degree in Architecture
from the University of Cincinnati.
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