Mr. Wolf is a long-time member of the Public Finance Tax Group, specializing in public power and health care, and is the leading national authority on municipal derivative products. He is principal tax advisor to several major municipal electric utilities and nonprofit healthcare organizations. He also has extensive experience in working with leading banks in creating new financial products, including secondary market synthetic instruments, contingent payment debt instruments, financing strategies for natural gas reserves, as well as defending the taxation of financial transactions before taxing authorities.

George Wolf, a partner in the San Francisco office, is Chair of the Tax Group and the Corporate Tax Group. Mr. Wolf handles nearly all aspects of federal and state tax planning, including financial transactions, synthetic securities, structured and securitized financings, tax exempt bonds, foreign financing transactions, unrelated business income tax issues, investment companies, limited partnership financing and real estate financing transactions.

Mr. Wolf also has substantial experience defending the tax integrity of financing arrangements in particular as well as tax litigation in general.