Mark J Wolfson

Experience

Mark J. Wolfson advises 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 has been practicing for more than 40 years. He is a former chair of the Florida Bar Business Law Section and former chair of its Bankruptcy/UCC Committee.

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 industries: retail, health care, hotels, resorts, restaurants, marinas, golf courses, manufacturing, telecommunication, technology, automotive, and agriculture. In 2020, Mark was the co-lead debtor attorney for Stein Mart, Inc., a big box retailer, with 280 stores throughout 30 states, in its Chapter 11 case in Jacksonville, Florida. Mark was also one of the Foley partners who represented PNW Healthcare and affiliates in the successful confirmation of their bankruptcy plan, in 2020, for 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. He recently completed his role as lead committee counsel in the Bertucci’s Restaurants Chapter 11 case also in Orlando. Mark is currently lead committee counsel in the Surge Transportation Chapter 11 freight brokerage case in Jacksonville. Mark has been committee counsel in a confirmed Chapter 11 in Puerto Rico.