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Nicole Hancock

Nicole Hancock is a partner of Stoel Rives who specializes in providing counseling and litigation legal services to beer, wine and distillery businesses. She has experience with litigation matters, commercial contracts, product liability lawsuits, wine and beer franchise disputes, trade secret violations, unfair practices claims, consumer protection, and corporate torts. Nicole also represents beer and wine distributors with local franchise law and regulatory counseling, and growers and agricultural entities with grower contracts, processing agreements, production contracts, Department of Agriculture investigations and appeals, PACA claims, and other agricultural law-related issues. Nicole's legal know-how and courtroom experience allow her to develop and implement winning litigation strategies.

Nicole returned to Stoel Rives after working as corporate counsel for Syngenta Seeds, Inc., a global agriculture company. As corporate counsel, Nicole managed all aspects of the NAFTA vegetable seeds legal department, including counseling on general business matters, seed law, employment matters, drafting business transactional agreements, intellectual property in and out licenses, and general corporate legal counseling. Nicole also managed large complex litigation matters, which included multi-million-dollar product liability claims.

Practice Areas

• Wine and Vineyard Law
• Food Liability
• Agribusiness
• Corporate Litigation

• Idaho
• Oregon
• Washington

• Willamette University College of Law, J.D., 2002, magna cum laude
  Editor-in-Chief, Willamette Law Review
• Western Oregon University, B.S., American Sign Language English Interpretation, 1998