Frederick A. Wolf serves as Special Counsel for Damon Morey LLP. Mr. Wolf concentrates his practice on municipal, banking and business law.

Mr. Wolf has more than 25 years of municipal experience. Most recently, he served as the Erie County Attorney for six years. Previously, he was the attorney for the Town of Aurora, the Village of Lancaster and Erie County Sewer District No. 4.

He has extensive experience with business and security transactions, general corporate and partnership matters, banking law, real estate development, land use, zoning, and commercial leasing and lending. He has represented several smaller banks in mergers and acquisitions and helped form two New York State chartered de novo banks, Jamestown Savings Bank and Greater Buffalo Savings Bank. Recently, Mr. Wolf represented Erie County on the sale of certain real property tax liens.

He began his legal career at the firm of Little & Burt, then general counsel to Buffalo Savings Bank, which later became Goldome. In 1981, when Little & Burt merged with Saperston & Day, Mr. Wolf continued to manage the firm’s relationship with Goldome. Between 1980 and 1991, the bank formed and operated over 90 subsidiary corporations while assets grew from $2 billion to $7 billion.

Mr. Wolf served as a trustee of the Buffalo General Foundation and as a director of the State University of New York at Buffalo School of Law Alumni Association, Monroe Title Insurance Corporation, the Greater Buffalo Savings Bank and was a member of the Board of Directors of Great Lakes Bancorp, Inc, a publicly owned bank holding company whose stock was traded on the New York Stock Exchange.

He also served as a director of the Niagara Frontier Vocational Rehabilitation Center, Inc. and the United Way of Buffalo and Erie County in addition to serving as a member of the Board of Trustees of Canisius High School.

Admitted to practice in New York State and Florida, Mr. Wolf is a member of the Erie County and New York Bar Associations.

Mr. Wolf was previously named to Business First’s of Buffalo’s Who’s Who in Law and was selected by his peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America® 2012
(Copyright 2011 by Woodward/White, Inc., of Aiken, S.C.) in the fields of Administrative/Regulatory Law, Banking and Finance Law, Financial Services Regulation Law, and Land Use and Zoning Law. He first received this distinction in 2010.

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