David Cook is a Partner in the law firm of Kelly Hart & Hallman LLP, where he focuses his practice primarily on corporate transactions, with particular emphasis on mergers and acquisitions, private equity and energy transactions.  He currently serves on the firm’s Executive Committee and as the Chair of the firm’s Corporate and Securities practice group.  He previously served as an adjunct professor at Texas A&M University School of Law where he taught for six semesters.  He has presented at numerous continuing legal education (CLE) seminars on various topics, and has been recognized as a “Texas Super Lawyer, Rising Star” and an “Up-and-Coming 100: Texas Rising Star” by Texas Monthly magazine, a “Top Attorney” by Fort Worth, Texas magazine, and a “Top Attorney” in Business Law, Civil Law and Transactional, and Corporate Finance / Mergers and Acquisitions by 360 West magazine.  He is a Sustaining Life Fellow of the Texas Bar Foundation and the Tarrant County Bar Foundation, is a “40 Under 40” honoree by the Fort Worth Business Press, and serves on the Texas Business Organizations Code Committee.  He graduated summa cum laude from Texas Wesleyan University School of Law (now known as Texas A&M University School of Law) where he served as the Editor-in-Chief of its Law Review, and received his B.B.A. from Baylor University with a double major in entrepreneurship and marking.  David currently serves as the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Grace Prep and as the Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Fielder Church.  

He and his wife, Anna, are active covenant members of Fielder Church where they love the fellowship with, and the insight shared by, their community group, as well as being a part of a body of Christ that desires to “inhale and exhale the Gospel and make disciples who do the same.”  Both of their children attend Grace Prep.