Robert A. Wolf’s experience includes all aspects of bankruptcy litigation, real estate litigation and other commercial litigation, with a particular concentration in litigation involving fraudulent transfers under the Bankruptcy Code and breaches of fiduciary duty on the part of corporate officers and directors, and litigation affecting loan problems, including real estate mortgage foreclosures, foreclosures on Uniform Commercial Code interests involving cooperatives, and enforcement of guarantees. He also has extensive experience negotiating workout agreements.

Robert has represented bankruptcy trustees, numerous lending institutions and other interested parties in litigation in both federal and state courts and has argued appeals in both forums. One appeal resulted in a landmark New York State Court of Appeals case, ALH Properties Ten, Inc. v. 306 100th Street Owners Corp., in which he successfully argued that a lender’s security interest in a block of unsold cooperative shares was superior to any lien of the cooperative corporation with respect to the unfulfilled repair obligations of the co-op sponsor.

Robert has been a frequent speaker on issues related to mortgage foreclosures, workouts and bankruptcy. For more than a decade, he has served as chair of the New York State Bar Association’s frequently presented program, “Mortgage Foreclosures and Workouts.” In addition, Robert served as a member of the Task Force to Reform Mortgage Foreclosure Process of the Real Property Section of the New York State Bar Association, which ultimately resulted in passage of legislation authorizing nonjudicial foreclosure of certain commercial real estate mortgages.

He is co-author of the chapter “Mortgage Foreclosure” in Volume 21 of West’s New York Practice Series, West Group, 1998. Robert is the author of “The Federal Condominium and Cooperative Conversion Protection and Abuse Relief Act of 1980: A ‘Sleeper’ Statute Takes on Potentially Broad Ramifications in New York," published in New York State Bar Association Real Property Law Section Newsletter, April 1989, and “Comment, US v. Butenko: Electronic Surveillance for Foreign Intelligence Purposes," published in New York University Journal of International Law and Politics, Winter 1976.

Robert has been named a New York Super Lawyer since 2007, a distinction honoring the top five percent of lawyers in New York.

Representative Experience

• Serving as special litigation counsel to the bankruptcy trustee of Asia Global Crossing, resulting in US$32.5 million in settlements of litigation filed against the debtor’s former senior officers and directors.
• Serving as special litigation counsel to the bankruptcy trustee of The Cassandra Group, whose principal was the so-called “investment adviser to the Hollywood stars,” resulting in settlements of fraudulent transfer litigation aggregating in excess of US$6 million.
• Serving as counsel to the bankruptcy trustee in the successful Chapter 11 reorganization of a 550-unit New York City cooperative apartment corporation, pursuant to which the multimillion-dollar mortgage indebtedness of the debtor was restructured and the large block of unsold apartment units was conveyed to a white knight investor.