Cosmo Zinkow

Biography

After seven years in the United States Marine Corps—including combat deployment to Iraq in 2005—Cosmo entered the private sector and built a successful career as Director of Technology for multiple companies. That frontline experience in leadership and operations gives him a practical understanding of what business leaders actually need from counsel: decisive action, strategic thinking, and results that protect the bottom line.

Business leaders turn to Cosmo when the stakes are highest—to protect their companies, assets, and reputations at trial and on appeal. As lead counsel, he has delivered significant results in a wide range of high-exposure matters, including:

• Successfully resolving a bet-the-company, multi-million-dollar Hollywood entertainment dispute;
• Securing a one-dollar nominal damages trial verdict for a business executive wrongfully targeted by a national finance firm;
• Managing complex, high-value litigation for private-equity-backed companies and non-profits;
• Pursuing claims against one of the world’s largest medical technology providers; and
• Litigating unfair competition and trade-secret misappropriation claims in state and federal courts across the country.

Cosmo is also a key member of the firm’s appellate team. He has worked on matters before the U.S. Supreme Court ranging from billion-dollar tax disputes, EPA regulatory challenges, the recovery of World War II-era art, and copyright claims involving Blackbeard’s ship. Most recently, he has served as lead appellate counsel before the North Carolina Court of Appeals and the North Carolina Supreme Court in cases addressing due process, governmental immunity, and the First Amendment.

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