Jarrett Wolf

President

A former prosecutor, Special Agent, and partner in a boutique international law firm that offered global clients the services and strategies necessary to guard wealth, reputation and privacy, Jarrett Wolf combines litigation and trial experience with global investigations and crisis management experience, to find and create solutions to complex, often unprecedented, situations and crises. 

His clients include multinational corporates, international banks and financial firms, governments, private clients, and law firms.  He has handled matters in jurisdictions across the U.S. and involving more than 45 countries, including Hong Kong, Monaco, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Switzerland, and the United Arab Emirates.

Jarrett is recognized in Chambers Litigation Support, Business Intelligence and Investigations USA Nationwide, Band 1, and Chambers Crisis and Risk Management, Crisis Management USA Nationwide, Band 2.

EXPERIENCE

Jarrett’s experience includes the prevention of international incidents; legal and investigative responses to government investigations, arrests, and prosecutions; corporate investigations of fraud, bribery, corruption, money laundering, sanctions violations, extortion, and misconduct; internal investigations which have resolved corporate crises; investigations in multi-million dollar litigation and arbitration; and international investigative due diligence in multi-million dollar deals.

PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND

Jarrett began his career as an Assistant State Attorney in Miami where he co-founded the State Attorney’s Gang Prosecution Unit; investigated and prosecuted cases involving street gangs, drug gangs, violent organized crime, murder, attempted murder, ship invasions, drug trafficking, and armed robbery; wrote the first warrant in Florida authorizing a search for gang evidence; litigated and obtained the first court order in Florida admitting gang evidence at trial; tried gang cases involving multiple co-defendants and occasionally, for evidentiary reasons, requiring multiple juries; authored several manuals and presented at national conferences on investigations and prosecutions.

Jarrett was later recruited by the United States Drug Enforcement Administration as a Special Agent and spent the next several years investigating international drug trafficking organizations. He was the case agent for DEA’s international investigation of a Consolidated Priority Organization Target for which he received the DEA Administrator’s Award, the U.S. Attorney’s Outstanding Law Enforcement Officer of the Year Award, the DEA Exceptional Performance Award, and the International Narcotic Enforcement Officers’ Association’s International Award of Honor.

In 2006, he joined Ferrell Law, P.A. as a partner in the firm’s litigation practice and, in 2009, founded Wolf, P.A. and Group One Consulting, which evolved to create Wolf Global.

THOUGHT LEADERSHIP

Jarrett has been a presenter at more than 40 conferences and seminars, speaking on crisis management, international investigations, and corporate investigations, and he has authored several articles and manuals on best practices.

Money Laundering, Sanctions Compliance; What The Binance Case Means, Forbes, December 2023

Sam Bankman-Fried Found Guilty; What Comes Next?, Forbes, November 2023

Sam Bankman-Fried’s Trial Is Almost Over; Here’s What You Need To Know, Forbes, October 2023 

Caroline Ellison And Sam Bankman-Fried Are Not Crypto’s Bonnie And Clyde, Forbes, October 2023

The Sam Bankman-Fried Case Is Not About Crypto, It’s About Fraud, Forbes, September 2023 

Thinking Differently about Investigations – The legal and ethical use of investigations and intelligence in litigation, corporate and regulatory practice, Florida Bar CLE, Reaccredited March 2023

Corporate Investigations-The part they don’t teach, West LegalEdCenter and Celesq CLE, September 2020

After Charges Against Former eBay Executives, It’s Time to Rethink Investigations, Corporate Counsel, June 29, 2020

Thinking Differently about Investigations – The legal and ethical use of investigations and intelligence in litigation, corporate and regulatory practice, Florida Bar CLE, October 2019

What companies can do to comply with the U.S. sanctions on Venezuela, The Miami Herald, September 16, 2019

New Venezuela Sanctions: What They Mean and Why You Should be Aware, Daily Business Review, August 20, 2019

What Every General Counsel Needs to Know About the Intelligence Cycle, Corporate Counsel, September 28, 2018

Doing Business in the U.S. – Five Considerations for the Arab Business Leader, Forbes Middle East, September 2017

Due Diligence After The Panama Papers, Billionaire, June 8, 2016

Gang Prosecution Manual of the United States Department of Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (Co-Author)

Introduction to Criminal Investigation

Gang Prosecution – A resource for police and prosecutors

Drug Gang Enforcement and Gang Homicide Investigation

Operation Hardcore – A prototype response to violent street gangs

Basic Training for Street Gang Investigators – Legal Issues and Concerns

Provisions of Florida Criminal Law Relevant to the Investigation and Prosecution of Terrorism

ACCOLADES

Jarrett has received awards and commendations from the DEA, FBI, Anti-Defamation League, U.S. Army Criminal Investigations Division at Ft. Campbell, HIDTA, the Florida Intelligence Unit, federal and state prosecutors, police agencies, the Regional Information Sharing System and the Regional Organized Crime Information Center.  He is recognized in Chambers Litigation Support, Business Intelligence and Investigations USA Nationwide, and Chambers Crisis and Risk Management, Crisis Management USA Nationwide.