Lawrence J. Wolk is a partner in the New York and Washington, D.C. offices of Holland & Knight. Mr. Wolk practices in the real property area, emphasizing commercial real estate finance and public/private transactions. Mr. Wolk has represented numerous institutional lenders, government instrumentalities, and developers of real estate, and corporations, throughout the country in connection with their real estate activities. This representation has included the negotiation and documentation of construction, permanent, and multi-state financings, public/private partnerships, sales, acquisitions, and other development and public project matters.
Matters handled by Mr. Wolk include:
- sale of nuclear power plant facilities in New York State representing New York Power Authority
- $734 Million construction loan financing of the World Financial Center at Battery Park City representing the lead lender
- numerous single asset and multi-state, multi-asset mortgage and acquisition transactions secured by properties nationwide representing national life insurance companies and banks
- mortgage loan origination and workouts throughout New York State representing Empire State Development Corporation
- ground lease and other real estate and operational transactions representing the Roosevelt Island Operating Corporation
- acquisition and financing of over 1500 fee and leasehold cellular tower sites throughout North America in single-asset and multi-asset, multi-state portfolio transactions
- numerous commercial acquisitions, dispositions and mortgage financings for clients headquartered outside of the U.S.
Prior to joining Holland & Knight in the mid 1990s, Mr. Wolk served for four (4) years as Assistant General Counsel for Real Estate and Asset Disposition at the Resolution Trust Corporation ("RTC") and Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation where he had senior agency legal and management responsibility for the real estate, affordable housing, environmental, and workout sections of the RTC's legal division and implemented and closed multi asset sales programs disposing of billions of dollars of real estate and real estate loan assets.
Prior to his service at the RTC, Mr. Wolk practiced for 17 years in the New York City area with an emphasis on complex real estate mortgage financing transactions.