Nicole Olvera Cook

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Nicole focuses her practice on commercial real estate transactions and financing. She has extensive experience representing lenders in a diverse range of real estate-secured commercial lending transactions, including acquisition and construction financing, term loan and bridge loan financing, and other real estate-secured lending. Nicole handles all real estate asset types, including retail, multifamily, mixed-use, office, hotel, and industrial projects.

Nicole regularly advises clients with respect to loan originations, as well as loan modification, workouts, assumptions, and enforcement proceedings.

  • Best Lawyers in America®, Real Estate Law (2024-2026)
  • Super Lawyers® Texas Rising Star, Real Estate (2023-2024)
  • Best Lawyers in America®: Ones to Watch, Real Estate Law (2022-2023)
Overview

Nicole focuses her practice on commercial real estate transactions and financing. She has extensive experience representing lenders in a diverse range of real estate-secured commercial lending transactions, including acquisition and construction financing, term loan and bridge loan financing, and other real estate-secured lending. Nicole handles all real estate asset types, including retail, multifamily, mixed-use, office, hotel, and industrial projects.

Nicole regularly advises clients with respect to loan originations, as well as loan modification, workouts, assumptions, and enforcement proceedings.

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179 Locke Lord Lawyers Named to The Best Lawyers in ‎America® ‎‎2025 List‎, 45 Recognized as Ones to Watch

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16 Locke Lord Lawyers Named 2024 Texas Rising Stars; Houston Partners Mia Lorick and Andrew Reed Named to Up-and-Coming 100 List

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‎173 Locke Lord Lawyers Named to The Best Lawyers in ‎America® ‎‎2024 List‎, 39 Recognized as Ones to Watch

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15 Locke Lord Lawyers Named 2023 Texas Rising Stars

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Awards
  • Best Lawyers in America®, Real Estate Law (2024-2026)
  • Super Lawyers® Texas Rising Star, Real Estate (2023-2024)
  • Best Lawyers in America®: Ones to Watch, Real Estate Law (2022-2023)

Top areas of focus

  • Member, Real Estate Council of Austin (2013-Present)
  • Leadership Development Council Oversight Committee (2018)
  • Research and Education Committee (2017-2018)
  • Leadership Development Council (2016)
  • Christmas in October Committee (2016)
  • Gardner-Betts Committee (2014-2015)
  • Member, The Junior League of Austin (2015-2024)
  • Member, State Bar of Texas
  • Member, Austin Bar Association Real Estate Section
  • Judicial extern for Judge Dean J. Rich Leonard of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court of the Eastern District of North Carolina (2012)
  • Personal banker, Wells Fargo Bank, Austin, TX

Education

  • University of North Carolina School of Law, J.D., North Carolina Banking Institute Journal, 2011-2013, 2013
  • University of California, Los Angeles, B.A., 2007

Bar Admissions

  • Texas