Scott A. Wolfson

Scott A. Wolfson is practice lead of Corporate Bankruptcy & Restructuring and ADR/Facilitation at Wolfson Bolton Kochis in Troy, Mich., where he focuses on bankruptcy and insolvency, commercial litigation, business disputes and counseling, automotive supply chain issues, and ADR/facilitation. His clients have included distressed companies, corporate debtors in bankruptcy, unsecured creditors’ committees, preference and fraudulent transfer defendants, hospitals, tier-one and sub-tier suppliers, technology companies, start-ups, directors and officers, trade creditors, trustees, receivers, lenders, landlords, tenants, asset-purchasers and lessors. Mr. Wolfson has experience representing original equipment manufacturers and suppliers, including ensuring the continuity of supply from nonperforming, financially distressed or bankrupt suppliers. His expertise is in representing customers in the enforcement of their contract rights with suppliers in both state and federal courts. Mr. Wolfson also has experience litigating lien disputes under Michigan’s Special Tools Lien Act and Molder’s Lien Act. He advises secured creditors in all aspects of loan workouts and restructurings, including creditors’ rights representation, and represents financially distressed companies restructuring in and out of court. He also represents purchasers of assets in bankruptcy and similar state court proceedings, including litigation of sale procedures and disputes. Mr. Wolfson is a certified mediator and has mediated preference, fraudulent conveyance and commercial disputes, members of boards of directors, and corporate officers in breach-of-fiduciary-duty and derivative litigation. He also has criminal jury trial experience as defense counsel and as a former prosecutor for the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community. Mr. Wolfson has been named one of the top 100 lawyers in Michigan in the 2010-16 Super Lawyers survey, and as one of the top 50 Michigan business lawyers from 2013-16, in Michigan Super Lawyers from 2009-17, in Michigan Rising Stars for 2008, in The Best Lawyers in America from 2010-18 (for which he was named Lawyer of the Year) and as one of the dbusiness Top Lawyers from 2010-18. He is a Fellow of the Oakland County Bar Foundation and is rated AV-Preeminent by Martindale-Hubbell. Mr. Wolfson received his B.A. from Michigan State University’s James Madison College in 1992 and his J.D. cum laude from the University of Minnesota Law School in 1995, where he was a managing editor of the Law and Inequity Journal.