Nicholas Kostopulos- Career Highlights And Achievements

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Nicholas Kostopulos- Career Highlights And
Achievements
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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.
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Through well-vetted and managed collaborations,
often with former competitors, companies can
acquire assets and know-how beyond their existing
or potential financial and technical capabilities
as a solo operator. Mr. Peter Kostopuloss
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.
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Mr. Peter Kostopulos licensing and alliance
expertise arose in the 1990s, 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 Debiopharms 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.
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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
companys principal cancer compound, a hospital
based in Taiwan.
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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 Justices 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.
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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.
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