Education
- J.D., with Honors — The University of Chicago Law School; Kirkland & Ellis Scholar (top 10%). Member of the Illinois bar.
- B.S., Finance, with High Honors — University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Gies College of Business; Minor in Environmental Economics and Law; Certificate in Global Business Culture (European specialization)
Scott Wolf
Scott is a former M&A attorney and senior insurance executive with deep expertise in Transactional Risk Insurance and complex Property and Casualty Insurance placements.
Scott’s interest in RWI began in 2012 as a first-year M&A associate at Kirkland & Ellis: on two sell-side PE deals he saw the contrast up close — one required the seller to leave roughly 10% of enterprise value in escrow; the other used RWI. At the time, most transaction parties had never heard of RWI, including counsel at leading M&A firms. By 2017 the product appeared on approximately 20% of U.S. private M&A deals, and Scott became one of the first M&A lawyers to move into the global transactional risk insurance market.
Between 2017 and 2025, he served as lead RWI broker on 150+ engagements, placing $2B+ of RWI coverage limits*. Scott has taught RWI continuing legal education to leading law firms and in-house legal teams, including a commercial real estate RWI curriculum he co-developed in 2019 with a partner at a global law firm. He worked with counsel at 35+ law firms, who regularly brought him opportunities to assist their clients. Scott has placed coverage on minority acquisitions, take-privates, mergers of equals, cross-border M&A, GP-led secondaries, real estate, and contingent-risk structures.
Unlike most RWI brokers, Scott also oversaw ~350 commercial insurance policies representing ~$25M of annual premium*, including buy-side commercial insurance due diligence engagement. Scott also has experience placing residual value and non-payment insurance products.
Scott’s combined background, M&A legal training, RWI brokering, and commercial insurance production is differentiated in the insurance market.
Scott formed WolfTRI so that he could provide sophisticated Transactional Risk Insurance brokerage services without institutional pressure to (i) charge both brokerage commission and a separate retail broker fee and/or (ii) sell related due diligence services which may result in a conflict of interest if a claim arises.