Overview
Margie Venus is a principal at McKool Smith’s Houston office. She focuses on the areas of business reorganizations, debtors’ and creditors’ rights, and insolvency and acquisitions.
After practicing law for almost four decades, she has extensive experience representing distressed companies, committees and other diverse claimants in all aspects of corporate restructurings, formal bankruptcy proceedings and out-of-court settlements, and representing acquirers of assets from bankruptcy estates and companies in financial distress.
Margie is admitted to the Supreme Court of Texas, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and the U.S. District Courts of Northern, Southern, and Western Districts of Texas.
She’s also fluent in Spanish, with experience in restructuring-related matters, acquisitions and privatizations in Latin America. She received her J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center and University of Houston Law Center, and her BA in Political Science and Spanish from Rice University.
J.D., University of Houston Law Center, 1982
Georgetown University Law Center
B.A., Political Science and Spanish, Rice University, 1979
- Hon. Randolph F. Wheless, Jr., U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Southern District of Texas
- U.S. District Courts for the Northern, Southern, and Western Districts of Texas
- The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
- Supreme Court of Texas