Themistocles G. Michos

Themis Michos is an attorney practicing in San Francisco. He is a specialist in corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, commercial litigation and intellectual property matters. He has extensive experience in legal matters in the defense industry.

Mr. Michos is a graduate of Harvard College and the Yale Law School. He also attended the University of Athens, Greece. He was a partner in the San Francisco law firm of Collette, Erickson, Farmer & O'Neill from 1976 through 1996 and has been of counsel to that firm since 1996. Previously, Mr. Michos founded the Los Angeles office of the former international law firm Graham & James, working extensively with the Tokyo office of that firm. From 1966 through 1976 he served as Chief Counsel of Teledyne, Inc., in Los Angeles for three of his more than ten years with that corporation. He was general counsel of Kaiser Aerospace & Electronics Corporation from 1967 through 2000 and general counsel of Portola Packaging, Inc., now headquartered in Batavia, Illinois, from September, 1996 through August, 2005. He has served on the board of directors of Argonaut Insurance Company and Unitrin Corporation, as well as a number of high tech companies in Northern California.

Mr. Michos participated in local government as a member of the Town Council of the Town of Woodside in Silicon Valley from 1983 through 1991. He has been active in California politics, principally in fund raising matters.

Mr. Michos has acted as lead counsel in or supervised a number of commercial litigation matters, including international contract arbitrations conducted in London under the rules of the International Court of Arbitration and in New York under the American Arbitration Association, both arising in the context of government contracting and international military procurements, as well as a number of California disputes. He has represented clients in commercial disputes involving aviation products and defense procurement both for and against contractors and subcontractors of his clients. Other litigation experience includes direction of a number of patent infringement actions, both domestic and in the United Kingdom, trade secrets and other intellectual property and bankruptcy matters. He served as an arbitrator in a major international arbitration stemming from a U.S. Air Force procurement.