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.

Practice Areas

Representative Experience
  • Negotiates third-party relationships for banking services, including correspondent banking, foreign exchange, and financial custody services, on behalf of multinational banking organization
  • Negotiated master services agreements for outsourcing of core processing functions for national bank and insurance carrier clients
  • Provide advice and counsel to regional banking organizations with respect to interstate banking
  • Provided advice and counsel to national insurer in amending existing services agreement with critical software vendor
Representative Experience
  • Provide comprehensive counsel on outsourcing arrangements for global provider of offshore wind energy
  • Developed online terms and conditions for nonprofit crowdfunding startup
  • Negotiated pharmaceutical clinical trial agreements for independent physician practice serving as principal investigator
  • Structured and negotiated multiparty liberal arts college library consortium arrangement
  • Provide ongoing advice to nonprofit utilities self-regulatory body regarding corporate governance and legal compliance
  • Serve as US counsel to European equipment manufacturer on formation, compliance, and commercial contracting matters
Representative Experience
  • Structured and negotiated student health services arrangement between elite liberal arts college and healthcare system
  • Negotiated pharmaceutical clinical trial agreements for independent physician practice serving as principal investigator
  • Developed customer and physician template agreements, and provided structuring and compliance advice, for mobile second opinion startup
  • Designed online terms and conditions for web-based medical answering service