Nicolas Peck

Cole is an Associate in Maynard Nexsen’s Litigation section and a member of the Business Litigation practice, a team dedicated to representing companies, their owners, and shareholders in legal disputes involving fraud, tortious interference, securities, sales and acquisitions, trademark infringement, shareholder oppression, hostile takeovers, contracts, cryptocurrency and brokerage fees, just to name a few.

Cole earned his J.D. from Vanderbilt University Law School, where he served on the Vanderbilt Law Review and was a member of the Order of the Coif. He holds a B.A., magna cum laude, in Politics with a minor in Africana Studies from Washington and Lee University.

• Assisted a Berkshire Hathaway division with strategy related to a multi-year governmental investigation of lending practices by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and obtained dismissal with prejudice of subsequently filed enforcement action alleging violation of TILA’s ability-to-repay requirements.  This filing and dismissal of this lawsuit were extensively covered by various national news outlets, including Reuters, AP and NPR, among others. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau v. Vanderbilt Mortgage and Finance, Inc. (E.D. Tenn.)