Profile

Neal Cook heads the Firm’s Banking & Capital Markets practice group. He represents institutional lenders, servicers, finance companies and borrowers in a variety of financing transactions, including securitized loans, syndicated financings, construction and permanent real estate loans, asset based loans, and loan workouts and restructurings. Mr. Cook has extensive knowledge in the areas of commercial real estate finance and development, commercial leasing and corporate transactions.

While at Wake Forest University, Mr. Cook was the Articles Editor of the Wake Forest Law Review and a member of the Moot Court Board.

Experience Highlights

• Representation of mortgage loan portfolio servicers in connection with single-site and multi-site loan assumptions, as well as consent, REMIC and general compliance issues
• Representation of lenders and borrowers in secured and unsecured working capital, term, acquisition and other credit facilities
• Origination of commercial construction loans
• Representation of bank syndicates in secured and unsecured credit facilities, including acquisition, term, letter of credit and working capital facilities
• Coordination of financings and real estate transfers in connection with mergers and acquisitions
• Negotiation of loan workouts and the restructuring of existing loans

News

• Forty-Six Attorneys Named Super Lawyers
  January 26, 2009
• Twenty-One Parker Poe Attorneys Among "Legal Elite" for 2008
  January 14, 2008
• Fifteen Parker Poe Attorneys Among "Legal Elite"
  January 8, 2007
• Seventeen Parker Poe Attorneys Among "Legal Elite"
  January 20, 2006

Events & Speaking Engagements

• Title Insurance and Related Issues
  April 26, 2012
  Wells Fargo Bank, Commercial Mortgage Servicing Group