Mr. Mark J. Wolfson

Mark J. Wolfson is a partner with Foley & Lardner LLP?s Bankruptcy & Business Reorganizations Practice Group in Tampa, Fla., and has been a practicing commercial litigation and bankruptcy lawyer for more than 40 years. He has advised business clients in a wide variety of complex business bankruptcy reorganization cases and commercial litigation matters. Mr. Wolfson?s bankruptcy experience includes representing debtors, secured creditors, official creditors? committees, bondholders, asset-buyers, trade and franchisors, and other groups. He has experience litigating fraudulent-transfer and preference actions, as well as in state assignment for the benefit of creditor proceedings, commercial foreclose cases, and complex post-judgment collection matters. In addition, he has managed out-of-court work- outs and litigated disputes under Article 9 of the UCC. In 2020, Mr. Wolfson was the co-lead attorney that represented Stein Mart, Inc., a big-box retailer with 280 stores throughout 30 states, in its chapter 11 case filed in Jacksonville, Fla. In 2020, he was co-counsel to the official committee in FoodFirst Global Restaurants? (d/b/a Brio?s) chapter 11 case in Orlando, Fla. More recently, he was committee counsel in the Bertucci?s Restaurants chapter 11 case in Orlando and in the Surge Transportation case in Jacksonville, both of which were confirmed and distributed money to unsecured creditors. Mr. Wolfson is a former chair of The Florida Bar?s Business Law Section. In addition, he was the primary draftsman of the Florida non-uniform default and remedies provisions. Mr. Wolfson was a member of the advisory board for ABI?s Caribbean Insolvency Symposium for more than eight years and has been a member of the advisory board for ABI?s Alexander L Paskay Bankruptcy Conference for more than five years. He received his bachelor?s degree with high honors from the University of Tennessee in 1979, where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Omicron Delta Kappa, and his J.D. from the University of Florida in 1982, after which he served a judicial clerkship to the Florida Second District Court of Appeals.