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Practice Area
Corporate Finance and Capital Markets
H. Clayton Cook, Jr. is a Counsel in the firm’s Corporate Finance Group. Mr. Cook has been engaged in private law practice or U.S. government service since 1960. He served as General Counsel of the Maritime Administration from 1970 through 1973. There he was responsible for the legal aspects of the implementation of the Merchant Marine Act of 1970, and for the drafting of the Federal Ship Financing Act of 1972 which governs MarAd's current Title XI program.
Mr. Cook has advised clients in the structuring of transactions involving the construction, ownership and financing of U.S. flag vessels totaling in excess of $4 billion, and in related dealings with the U.S. government. His client assignments have included numerous Title XI and leveraged lease financings and precedent setting CCF projects. His CCF work has included: the CCF program’s first use in leveraged lease financing transactions; the first and only shipyard CCF award; and the development of computer programs to measure CCF benefits in vessel purchase and leveraged lease financing transactions.
Mr. Cook has represented major non-citizen mineral industry and leasing company interests on citizenship issues in the ownership, operation and chartering of vessels in our coastwise and Great Lakes trades and fisheries.
Mr. Cook holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Princeton University and an LL.B. from The University of Virginia, where he was Executive Editor of the Virginia Law Review and a member of the Raven Society and The Order of the Coif. Mr. Cook commenced practice with Sullivan & Cromwell in 1960. He joined Pepper, Hamilton & Scheetz in 1965, where he was elected to the partnership and served as Sun Oil Company’s senior tax counsel before becoming General Counsel of the Maritime Administration. At the completion of his government service, Mr. Cook joined Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft where he was the partner responsible for developing Cadwalader's Washington-based international maritime practice.
Mr. Cook is a Life Member of The American Law Institute, a member of the Maritime Law Association of the United States (Maritime Finance Committee) and a member of the American and District of Columbia Bar Associations. | 