Peter N. Flocos is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, and a Lecturer at The Wharton School at Penn. He has been teaching courses at Penn Carey Law since 2011, usually teaching an M&A litigation seminar but also teaching the main M&A course from time to time, including most recently in the Spring 2022 semester. Mr. Flocos also teaches a Wharton course, called “Legal and Transactional Aspects of Entrepreneurship,” to undergraduates and MBAs.
Mr. Flocos received his J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School and also received his B.A. and B.S. degrees from Penn (the College of Arts and Sciences and the Wharton School, respectively). In the interim, he obtained a master’s degree from the University of Oxford in modern history and political philosophy.
While at Penn Law (now Penn Carey Law), Mr. Flocos served as Editor-in-Chief of the Law Review, graduated Order of the Coif (top 10% of the class) and was awarded the John M. Olin Prize in Law and Economics. He subsequently was a Law Clerk to the Honorable Roger J. Miner, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, in New York.
For two decades, Mr. Flocos was a litigation partner in the global law firm of K&L Gates LLP. Located in the firm’s the New York City office, his practice consisted of large and complex business and commercial litigation, with an emphasis on M&A, corporate governance and other shareholder litigation (both direct and derivative), and federal securities litigation. Mr. Flocos also represented corporate and director or officer policyholders in insurance coverage litigation under CGL, property, business interruption, D&O and other types of policies.
In addition, Mr. Flocos has served as an arbitrator in US and London arbitrations.
Prior to joining K&L Gates, Mr. Flocos was an associate at Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP.
Mr. Flocos decided in 2020 to retire early from large law firm practice in order to take on or expand various other undertakings of interest. At present, he serves as a Trustee/Director of the Center for Financial Stability (CFS) in New York City. CFS is an independent, nonpartisan and nonprofit think tank focusing on financial markets, and their mechanics and inter-linkages, with a view to enhancing market stability and benefitting investors, policy-making officials and the public. CFS, through its experts and Advisory Board, and in conjunction with certain partners such as the Shadow Open Market Committee, generates and delivers top-notch multi-disciplinary research spanning finance, law and regulation, and economics. CFS also sponsors related speaking events.
Mr. Flocos has been taking post-grad classes at Columbia University in NYC and at Penn, and pursuing research and writing interests in economics, finance, law and other areas. He has also continued to practice law as a sole practitioner in exceptional cases.
