Nicholas M. Cornell
Overview
Nicholas Cornell assists clients with a wide range of corporate transactions and general business matters, focusing on agile solutions to help companies achieve strategic objectives at all stages of growth. He has experience drafting corporate documents from entity formation through deal execution, structuring agreements that adapt to clients’ unique needs as deals evolve.
As a future-oriented advisor, Nicholas counsels business leaders on how rapidly changing data privacy laws and regulations impact mergers and acquisitions, assessing risk and all possible implications before guiding clients toward compliant, financially efficient solutions.
Nicholas also helps guide clients through corporate restructurings and general corporate governance matters, addressing some of the most challenging issues and competing interests for improved organizational frameworks.
Credentials
Education
- University of Kansas School of Law, 2024 (J.D.)
- University of Kansas, 2021 (B.G.S.)
Court Admissions
- U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri
- Helped represent an electric company in its $33.5 million sale to a private equity fund, with a pre-closing reorganization and rollover equity structure.
- Helped represent the seller on a $200 million sale of a heat-treating company with multiple facilities, including international locations and CFIUS approval, to an international engineering company.
- Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association, Business and Transactional Law Committee, Chair, 2025