Lee S. Wolosky

Partner
New York City

t: 212 754 4205
f: 212 446 2350

lwolosky@bsfllp.com

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Areas of Practice

Litigation

Corporate

Education

Harvard Law School, J.D., cum laude, 1995; Frederick Sheldon Traveling Scholarship; Editor, Harvard International Law Journal

Harvard University, A.B., magna cum laude, History and Literature, 1990; Harvard College Scholarship; John Harvard Scholarship; Dean's List

Admissions

New York

Lee Wolosky's main practice areas include corporate transactions, governmental investigations and relations, and the solution of complex legal and business problems, frequently with a cross-border component.

Mr. Wolosky joined the firm in 2001 from the White House, where he served as Director for Transnational Threats on the National Security Council under Presidents Clinton and George W. Bush. During his tenure, the Office of Transnational Threats coordinated U.S. government policy relating to terrorism, domestic preparedness, critical infrastructure protection, corruption, and international crime. Among other responsibilities, Mr. Wolosky coordinated the response of the U.S. government to illicit finance affecting national security. He served as the lead White House official on matters pertaining to money laundering and foreign official corruption.

Mr. Wolosky’s clients at the firm have included, among others, American International Group, C.V. Starr & Co., Inc., Fomento Economico Mexicano S.A. de C.V. (FEMSA), Hillenbrand Industries, Maurice R. Greenberg, Paxson Communications, Ramius Capital Group, LLC, Siemens, Starr International Company, Inc. (together with C.V. Starr & Co., Inc, the “Starr Companies”), and Spanish Broadcasting System Inc. Mr. Wolosky also advises and represents sovreign governments.

Currently, along with David Boies and Nicholas Gravante, Mr. Wolosky leads the firm's representation of Maurice R. Greenberg and the Starr Companies. He also currently serves as Special Counsel to victims of terrorism in groundbreaking litigation against financial institutions that allegedly aided and abetted acts of terrorism. Recently, he helped to resolve successfully a Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) investigation on behalf of a senior officer and director of a Fortune 500 company.

Prior to his service at the White House, he was associated with the Council on Foreign Relations and Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison. In 1995, he graduated from Harvard Law School cum laude and in 1990 graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College.

Since leaving the White House, Mr. Wolosky has served as a consultant to various agencies of the U.S. Government and has testified multiple times before the United States Congress and the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (the “9/11 Commission”). He currently serves as a co-director of the Council on Foreign Relations Task Force on Terrorist Financing.

He is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a member of the board of directors of the National Security Network. His articles have appeared in Wall Street Journal Europe, The International Herald Tribune, The Los Angeles Times and Foreign Affairs, among other places, and he is a frequent guest on Fox News, CNN, MSNBC and other news programs.

Mr. Wolosky has also served in recent years as an Adjunct Professor in International Affairs at Columbia University.

Selected Professional Awards and Associations

Member, Council on Foreign Relations
Director, National Security Initiative