Nicholas Kostopulos is an adept professional with distinguished professional history. He is a business executive and dispute resolution attorney, an author and educator with more than 20 years of experience as a federal prosecutor, law firm partner, and corporate executive.

1. Nicholas Kostopulos- Career Highlights And
Achievements

2. Nicholas Peter Kostopulos is an adept professional with
distinguished professional history. He is a business executive
and dispute resolution attorney, an author and educator with
more than 20 years of experience as a federal prosecutor, law
firm partner, and corporate executive. Among his areas of
practice, Nicholas Peter Kostopulos has counseled domestic
and foreign companies to use strategic alliances and
collaborations to expand their products and technologies as
well as their geographic markets. As an expert on strategic
alliances and intellectual property licensing, Mr. Kostopulos
has for has worked for two decades with domestic international
companies to focus and accelerate their science and
commercial activities by partnering with other firms and
sometimes government agencies to leverage and acquire
existing and new capabilities and assets in ways that would
have been impossible if working alone.

3. Through well-vetted and managed collaborations, often with
former competitors, companies can acquire assets and knowhow beyond their existing or potential financial and technical
capabilities as a solo operator. Mr. Peter Kostopulos’s clients
have included product and technology developers, as well as
service providers in the financial services, healthcare,
construction, and food and hospitality industries.
In 2013,
Mr. Kostopulos created SwissAmerica Medical Co and formed
an alliance with Swiss firm Modutech SA, to develop and
commercialize a pipeline of nutritional health products,
principally a portfolio of all-natural “life style” health products
with substantial health-related benefits.

4. Mr. Peter Kostopulos’ licensing and alliance expertise arose in
the 1990’s, when he associated with a group of Swiss life
science companies, the Debio Group, operating in
Switzerland,and France. Those operations were expanded to
include the United States with Mr. Kostopulos’ engagement in
1993, who was partner in a Washington D.C. law firm. Over
the years, Mr. Kostopulos gained substantial executive
experience, handling the business, regulatory, and litigation
affecting his growing list of clients. In 1996, Mr. Kostopulos
was appointed by Debiopharm SA to serve as Director of U.S.
Business and Legal Affairs.During his ten years of service, Mr.
Kostopulos acted as Debiopharm’s agent for registrations
before the Food and Drug Administration and concluded
multiple agreements on behalf of Debiopharm and its affiliated
companies, including two major collaborations responsible for
the commercialization of two cancer treatments.

5. The foregoing work led to similar appointments with other
technology clients including Cryptolex Inc., ImmuPharma Ltd.,
PhenoGenomics Inc., EccoDynamics, Inc., in which his
responsibilities included business development, government
relations and investigations, legal compliance, requiring him to
report regularly to senior management and Boards of Directors.
Among the foregoing appointments was his hire to serve as
Vice president in Business Development at PhenoGenomics
Corp.
This company was founded by industry visionary,
Leroy Hood, inventor of the DNA synthesizer. Among his
responsibilities was to resolve a major dispute with the source
of the company’s principal cancer compound, a hospital based
in Taiwan.

6. Apart from the afore mentioned, he has immense experience
working as a law firm partner with different organizations such
as Kostopulos & Associates, Womble Carlyle Sandridge &
Rice PLLC, and Watt, Tieder & Hoffar. During his early
career, Nicholas served in several important positions for the
United States Government. At the time of his retirement from
federal service, Mr. Kostopulos was Senior Trial Attorney in
the Department of Justice’s Procurement Fraud Unit,
headquartered at Washington D.C. where he was lead
prosecutor responsible for investigations and prosecutions of
large federal contractors, most of which were Fortune 500
companies, handling highly sensitive cases affecting military,
diplomatic, and commercial policies of the United States
government.

7. He has performed exceptionally well in all his professional
pursuits and continues to enjoy great career successes. Apart
from holding exceptional skill set and immense experience,
Nicholas contributes to various charitable causes. He provides
free legal services for matters such as consumer protection and
domestic landlord-tenant disputes.

8. Thank You!