Christopher A. Young

Practice Areas:

Business Litigation, Real Estate Litigation, Intellectual Property, Media, Entertainment & Technology

Christopher is the founder and managing partner of CYLG. His practice, which is based out of the Firm’s Denver office, focuses on commercial and real estate litigation, with particular expertise in the representation of lenders, commercial property owners, commercial landlords, and property managers, as well as matters involving common interest community law. He has extensive experience representing local and national property development and management companies in a variety of business disputes. Christopher represents several of the nation’s largest commercial property landlords in Colorado in all of their tenant dispute and collection matters, and he is licensed to practice in Colorado, California and North Carolina.

Christopher is a frequent lecturer for continuing legal education courses in which he instructs lawyers, real estate investors, managers and others on commercial landlord/tenant issues. Christopher grew up in Cedar Rapids, Iowa and received his J.D. from the University of Colorado Law School in 2002 where he served on the board of the Colorado Law Review.

Christopher received his B.B.A. from the University of Iowa in 1999 where he double-majored in finance and accounting. Christopher was named to the Colorado Super Lawyers Rising Stars list in 2012, 2103 and 2014 as published in 5280 Magazine and The Denver Post. This designation is given to the top 2.5% of attorneys in Colorado based on peer recognition and professional achievement. He was also named as one of 10 Compleat Lawyer finalists by Law Week Colorado as an attorney who excels in his area of legal expertise, generates business, promotes his firm’s values, stays on top of current trends and having positive personality traits often lacking in today’s legal world.