Colin Giuseppe Cox

Colin Giuseppe Cox is an associate in the International Practice Group of Haynes Boone and is licensed to practice in both Florida and Texas.

His practice focuses on a variety of corporate matters and international projects, including cross-border investments, distribution, financing, project development, and negotiations. He regularly assists clients in domestic and international mergers and acquisitions, private equity, and capital market transactions, and he has particular expertise with projects involving Latin America and Europe. Colin has lived and worked extensively in both regions and speaks French, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish. 

Colin’s practice covers a large range of industries, and he has extensive legal and business experience in the aviation, banking, defense, energy, entertainment, hospitality, infrastructure, manufacturing, real estate, sports, technology, and CBD/hemp sectors. He has represented clients in a variety of foreign markets, including Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, France, Germany, Greece, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Portugal, South Africa, South Korea, Spain and the United Kingdom. He has also represented purchasing cooperatives of international restaurant chains, and he regularly assists clients in negotiating distribution agreements for use domestically and abroad, with significant experience in Puerto Rico.

Colin also assists clients in structuring and negotiating their transactions to address national security concerns. He regularly represents foreign buyers and domestic sellers in M&A transactions before the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), and he has significant experience in guiding clients through the CFIUS review process and negotiating complex mitigation agreements. Additionally, Colin assists clients with the trade and export of controlled assets, including exports of defense-related (ITAR) and dual-use (EAR) products, services, and technology. He also provides counsel to clients on matters involving customs matters, OFAC sanctions, and the USMCA.

Additionally, Colin also maintains an active pro bono practice with a particular focus on animal rescue organizations and zoological societies. As a former zookeeper, he has significant practical experience with animal care and conservation projects. Colin also represents international cultural institutions and chambers of commerce, and he frequently assists clients in asylum cases.

Prior to law school, Colin worked for Goldman Sachs International in London where he traded for the bank’s offshore money market funds and also represented sovereign wealth funds, foreign governments, and central banks. He also worked for Goldman Sachs in Dallas as a financial analyst within the bank’s real estate private equity group, with a focus on hospitality investments.

Colin received his J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law. During law school, he participated in and won the International Tax Moot Court Competition hosted by the International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation in Leuven, Belgium. He also won the Bob Barker Prize in Animal Law, Ethics and Rights Student Writing Competition for his research on shareholder proposals in animal advocacy.

Colin obtained his undergraduate degree from the University of Virginia’s McIntire School of Commerce and has also studied at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi (Italy), Università degli Studi di Siena (Italy), and Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Lyon (France). Additionally, Colin has also lived and studied in Valencia, Spain.