Emily L. Cooke

Emily Cooke’s practice focuses on commercial transactions, compliance, and corporate governance for a range of clients, including banks and other financial institutions, health care organizations, insurance industry participants, educational institutions, nonprofit entities, and small businesses.  She negotiates third-party vendor contracts for banking services, negotiates master services agreements for outsourcing critical processing functions for national bank and insurers, and provides advice and counsel to financial institutions on a variety of compliance and regulatory matters, including privacy and data security.

Prior to joining Pierce Atwood in 2011, Emily was an associate with Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP in Washington, D.C., where she worked with Fortune 100 financial institutions in public and private mergers and acquisitions and financial regulatory matters.  During law school, she served as a judicial intern to Judge Stephen J. Glickman of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, DC’s highest court.  Before beginning her legal career, Emily worked at The Synergos Institute in New York, supporting grant-making institutions in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.

Emily is Chair of Pierce Atwood’s Banking & Financial Services Practice and partner in charge of the firm’s pro bono program.