Mark J Wolfson

Practice Areas

Mark J. Wolfson has advised business clients in a wide variety of complex business bankruptcy reorganization cases and commercial litigation actions. He is a partner in the firm’s Litigation Department and a member of its Bankruptcy & Business Reorganizations Practice Group (the senior lawyer in the Florida group). He also is the former chair of the Litigation Department in Tampa. He has been practicing commercial litigation and bankruptcy for more than 39 years.

Mark has extensive experience in out-of-court loan workouts and restructuring matters as well as broad experience in all types of insolvency and bankruptcy cases, representing debtors, secured creditors, official creditors committees, buyers of assets in chapter 11, equity holders, bondholders, landlords, and franchisors. He has experience in state, federal district, and bankruptcy courts litigating fraudulent transfer and preference actions and has been involved in state assignment for the benefit of creditor proceedings.

Mark’s experience covers insolvency issues that arise in the following spaces: retail, health care, hotels, resorts, marinas, golf course venues, manufacturing, telecommunication, technology, automotive, and agriculture. In 2020, Mark was the co-lead attorney representing Stein Mart, Inc., a big box retailer, with 280 stores throughout 30 states, in its chapter 11 case filed in Jacksonville, Florida. Mark also was one the Foley partners who represented PNW Healthcare and its affiliates in the successful confirmation of their bankruptcy plan, in December 2020, for their 15 skilled nursing facilities in the Pacific Northwest. In 2020, Mark was co-counsel to the official committee in FoodFirst Global Restaurants d/b/a Brio’s chapter 11 case in Orlando, and he has been lead committee counsel in at least three other Florida chapter 11 cases. His committee representation has extended to Puerto Rico in the NewCom chapter 11 case that resulted in a 100% payout to the unsecured creditors.

Personal

• University of Florida (J.D., 1982)

• University of Tennessee (B.A., high honors, 1979)