Biography
Colin Giuseppe Cox is an associate in Weil’s Corporate Department where his practice focuses on structuring and negotiating cross-border transactions to address national security reviews and other foreign investment and trade matters. He also regularly assists in negotiating international corporate projects, with particular experience in Europe and Latin America. Colin is fluent in French, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish.
Colin regularly participates in advising foreign buyers and domestic sellers 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 transactions involving controlled assets, including exports of defense-related (ITAR) and dual-use (EAR) products, services, and technology. He also works with clients on customs matters, OFAC sanctions and the USMCA.
Colin also regularly advises clients on a variety of international corporate projects, including cross-border investments, acquisitions, distribution agreements, financing, project development and negotiations. He has vast experience with projects involving Latin America and Europe and has lived and worked extensively in both regions.
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 and technology sectors. He has experience 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 worked with clients in negotiating distribution agreements for use domestically and abroad, with significant experience in Puerto Rico.
Colin has been recognized as a “Rising Star” by Texas Super Lawyers* 2023-2025 and was named a 2023 "40 Under 40" by the Miami-Dade Bar Association’s Young Lawyers Section. He was also named to the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity Fellows and Pathfinders 2024.
Colin is a Council Member of the Business Law Section of the State Bar of Texas, a Council Member and Treasurer of the International Law Section of the State Bar of Texas, and a Board Member and Chair of the International Law Committee of the Miami-Dade Bar Association. He is also a Dallas Committee Member of the French-American Chamber of Commerce Texas, Council Member and Vice Chair of the International Law Section of the Dallas Bar Association and a member of the National Italian American Bar Association.
Colin 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 worked with 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, where he served on the Editorial Board of the Virginia Law & Business Review. During law school, he 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 received his B.S. from the University of Virginia’s McIntire School of Commerce, where he was an Echols Scholar. Colin 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).
* Super Lawyers recognition is a Thomson Reuters service