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Christopher Cook

Partner

Location:
Boise
Phone:
208.388.4878
Fax:
208.954.5235
Email:
ccook@hawleytroxell.com

Biography

Christopher Cook is a partner in the firm’s Corporate & Business Transactions group and focuses his practice on the representation of private companies in mergers and acquisitions (asset/equity purchases and sales), and other corporate transactions. His practice includes counseling on general corporate matters, including formation, ongoing corporate compliance, and general business contracts. Christopher also practices with the firm’s Real Estate Transactions group with a focus on commercial and residential purchase and sale transactions, lease transactions, and landlord/tenant rights.

Christopher earned his J.D. cum laude in 2010 from DePaul University College of Law in Chicago. He received his B.S.B.A. in Finance, with an emphasis on International Business, in 2007 from the University of Colorado, Boulder.

Christopher is admitted to practice law in Idaho and Colorado, and is a member of both the Idaho and Colorado Bar Associations. He is professionally conversant in Italian and Spanish and holds dual citizenship in the United States and Italy.

BAR ADMISSIONS

Idaho

Colorado

ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Idaho Business Review’s Accomplished Under 40, 2023

Boise Metro Chamber of Commerce, Leadership Boise 2022-2023

Idaho Business Review’s Leaders in Law – Up & Coming, 2019

PROFESSIONAL/COMMUNITY ASSOCIATIONS

Community Associations Institute (CAI), Idaho Chapter

American Bar Association

Urban Land Institute

Boise Young Professionals

Wilderness First Responder (inactive)

Mediator

Idaho Volunteer Lawyers, Boise, ID

Bogus Basin Snow School, Boise, ID

EDUCATION

Law School:

DePaul University of Law, J.D. cum laude, 2010

Undergraduate:

University of Colorado Boulder, Leeds School of Business, B.S.B.A. Finance, 2007

ARTICLES & PRESENTATIONS

CDC Extends Eviction Order Until March 31, 2021“, Hawley Troxell Business Newsletter, February 2021

Extension of CDC Eviction Order“, Hawley Troxell Business Newsletter, January 2021

Force Majeure and COVID-19“, Hawley Troxell Business Newsletter, March 2020

RESPA Section 9 & Title Company Selection”, Hawley Troxell Business Newsletter, October 2017

“Campus Invasion: Security Breaches and their Trends in Universities Across the U.S.” pp 2-11, published in Convenient or Invasive: The Information Age (Ethica Publishing, 2007). Christopher Cook and Morgan McBaisey

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