Frederick Kopec

CORPORATE COUNSEL

Frederick Kopec serves as Corporate Counsel with MosterWynne, using his 25 years of private legal experience to help executives and entrepreneurs with their commercial, transactional, real estate, intellectual property, litigation and employment law matters. Before joining the firm, Mr. Kopec worked as outsourced general counsel to more than a dozen start-up companies in Austin and Houston. He has also served in a series of senior in-house attorney roles at Austin-based companies, as well as Fortune 200 companies like IBM and Texas Instruments. 

Most recently, Mr. Kopec served as Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary for Renew Data Corp. Mr. Kopec was responsible for all corporate and transactional legal matters, including sales, purchasing, licensing and leasing issues. He managed the company’s legal department, and helped coordinate and close two rounds of private equity funding totaling $35million.

After developing the company’s Safe Harbor Privacy Policy, he managed the company’s certification for the international transfer of protected personal data. Mr. Kopec spearheaded human resources legal issues, as well as litigation concerns and risk management; as a resource to the CEO, CFO and Chairman he assisted board members in corporate governance and avoiding liability. 

During his tenure at 724 Solutions, Mr. Kopec managed the legal transactions of the company’s worldwide software development, licensing and professional services businesses and served as an advisor to senior management. While negotiating and drafting complex agreements, he developed and implemented internet trademark and domain name protection and registration strategies. He managed the company’s portfolio of trademarks and domain names, and assisted the General Counsel in administering the corporate Patent Policy. He managed outside counsel for labor law, patent and litigation issues, and provided regular input to the CEO regarding ongoing litigation, negotiations and other financially significant legal issues.

Over the combined 15 years he worked at IBM, Tandem Computers and Texas Instruments, Mr. Kopec negotiated and managed more than $50million in government contracts, handled multi-million dollar deals, developed contracts for strategic relationships, advised inventors and assisted with the preparation and submission of patent disclosures. He repeatedly helped create and implement effective corporate practices; standardize business agreements and licensing practices; and served as a liaison between corporate, legal and specific business units for legal, export control and intellectual property matters.

In Indiana, Mr. Kopec was a partner in a business-oriented general practice, representing and advising individual, corporate and quasi-governmental clients. As Deputy Attorney General, he represented the State of Indiana as chief trial counsel in civil jury trials and at every appellate level from the State Court of Appeals to the United States Supreme Court.

Mr. Kopec received his Bachelor of Arts from the University of Notre Dame, where he was recognized as a Hoosier Scholar and Notre Dame Scholar. He received his Juris Doctorate from Indiana University’s Bloomington School of Law and is admitted to practice law in Texas and Indiana.