Ms. Risa Lynn Wolf-Smith

Risa Lynn Wolf-Smith is a partner with Holland & Hart LLP in Denver and has in-depth expertise in complex financial restructurings both in and out of court, as well as in complicated bankruptcy sale and acquisition transactions. She represents secured lenders, creditors? committees, unsecured credi- tors, asset-purchasers, landlords, franchisors, licensors and licensees, and receiver clients in bankruptcy proceedings of all sizes in many jurisdictions. Recently, Ms. Wolf-Smith represented major power- purchase-agreement creditors in large energy cases across the country, including the First Energy and Energy Future Holdings bankruptcies. She is a Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy and an ABI Board member, and she currently serves as an executive editor of the ABI Journal. Ms. Wolf-Smith chaired Holland & Hart?s Bankruptcy and Creditors? Rights Practice Group for more than 17 years, and she is admitted to practice in Colorado and California. She has been named in The Best Lawyers in America for Bankruptcy and Creditor/Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Law for the past decade, and has been listed in The Legal 500 and Colorado Super Lawyers for Bankruptcy: Business since 2006. Ms. Wolf-Smith received her B.A. summa cum laude in 1982 from Colorado College, where she was a Boettcher Scholar and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and her J.D. in 1985 from Stanford Law School.