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Practice Area
Corporate Finance and Capital Markets
Gary J. Wolfe is a partner in Seward & Kissel's Corporate Finance group. He has practiced law since 1977. Mr. Wolfe joined Seward & Kissel as a partner in 1992.
Mr. Wolfe specializes in Corporate Securities and Capital Market Transactions. He represents foreign and domestic issuers and investment banks and money managers in private placements, initial and secondary United States and offshore public offerings and consent solicitations, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, commercial transactions, and investors and issuers in restructurings to limit environmental liability risk. Mr. Wolfe has acted as counsel to issuers and underwriters in groundbreaking offerings by companies in the international transportation industry involving structured transactions, equity offerings, debt placements and finance leases, global listings, publicly traded warrants, passive foreign investment companies and establishment and termination of American Depositary Receipt programs. Mr. Wolfe�s transactions included in the first initial public offering by way of a warrants offering and the first initial public offering by a passive foreign investment company.
Mr. Wolfe received an A.B. degree from Cornell University in 1971, phi beta kappa, and a J.D. degree in 1975 from Yale Law School. He was a Post-Doctoral Fulbright Scholar at the University of Ljubljana and University of Belgrade and was a recipient of an IREX Fellowship. His languages are English, Croatian, Slovenian, Russian and French.
Mr. Wolfe has been Chair of the Admiralty and Maritime Law Committee of the New York County Lawyers Association and President of the U.S. Business Council for Southeastern Europe, an organization of over 150 American businesses with trade and investment interests in Slovenia, Croatia and the rest of the Balkan region. He is currently President of the U.S. Slovenia Business Council. Mr. Wolfe has spoken at industry conferences, and has published papers on United States domestic and offshore securities offerings by ship owning and emerging market companies, high-yield offerings by issuers, environmental liability concerns and the United States oil pollution laws.
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