Nicholas K. Austin is an associate with Foley & Lardner LLP where he focuses on general corporate and business law with an emphasis in mergers and acquisitions. Mr. Austin also has experience drafting non-competition agreements and various other corporate documents.
During law school, Mr. Austin was a summer associate for Foley (2008), where he assisted attorneys with licensing agreements, stock purchases, tender-offers and other standard corporate documents and conducted pro bono research involving Social Security benefits for disabled individuals. He was also a summer associate for DLA Piper US LLP (2007).
Mr. Austin is a graduate of Georgetown University Law Center (J.D., 2009) where he was president of the Black Law Students Association and a student representative of the American Bar Association. Mr. Austin was also a Georgetown Barrister’s Council Member for the Moot Court Division. After qualifying in the North American Final Round of Moot Court competitions, he traveled to Geneva, Switzerland to argue the merits of cross-border telecommunications agreements between foreign nations against the rest of the world in the ELSA Global Moot Court Competition at the World Trade Organization where his team finished fifth in the final standings.
Mr. Austin is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Morehouse College (B.A., magna cum laude, 2006). He also served as editor-in-chief of Morehouse College’s Maroon Tiger Newspaper. Mr. Austin was also on the dean’s list and Omicron Delta Kappa Leadership Honor Society, and was a Bonnor Community Service Scholar.
Mr. Austin is an ambassador and council member of the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE), vice president of The Board Diversity Apprentice Project, and a council member for the Gonzaga College High School Business Network.
Mr. Austin is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia and Maryland.