Bruce Wolfson is General Counsel to The Rohatyn Group, an asset management firm which specializes in Emerging Markets. The Rohatyn Group is interested in most of the principal Emerging Markets of Latin America, Asia and Eastern Europe .

Mr. Wolfson has been involved with financing and restructuring Emerging Market debt for over twenty years. Prior to joining The Rohatyn Group in 2004, he was a Senior Managing Director in the Legal Department at Bear Stearns & Co. Inc., responsible for trading, sales, capital markets and investment banking activities in the developing world.

Mr. Wolfson began his career in 1977 practicing for four years in a private law firm in Chicago . He then spent six years at Bank of America, serving as resident legal counsel in Mexico from the announcement of Mexico 's debt moratorium in August 1982 through the conclusion of the second round of public sector debt restructuring in April 1986.

Mr. Wolfson has long studied securities regulation in the many developing countries, and he has advised regulators in the Emerging Markets of Latin America, Asia and Eastern Europe concerning their foreign investment rules.

Mr. Wolfson has a B.A. in Economics and a J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania . He is a member of the advisory board of the University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Economic Law and a frequent participant in Securities Industry Association and Bond Market Association committees on issues affecting the Emerging Markets such as Rule 15a-6 reform and the North American Free Trade Agreement.