Our Team

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  Managing Partner

Peter is the founder and Managing Partner of Highlands Advisory and Highlands Capital Advisors. He is a seasoned executive, advisor, and investor in the intellectual property (IP) asset class.

For over 20 years, Peter has advised entrepreneurs, Fortune 500 companies, AMLaw 300 Litigators, and institutional investors engaged in the development and commercialization of patented technology, IP licensing, IP finance, and IP disputes within a number of industry sectors in North America and Europe.  

Peter has been recognized by his peer group as one of the IAM Strategy 300 – The World’s Leading IP Strategists each year since 2012. 

Peter currently holds a Series 79 and 63 through Highlands Capital Advisors GT Securities, Inc.

  Partner, Head of Technical Analysis

Stanko is a technology licensing  expert with decades of experience as both a software designer and as a technical leader at prominent IP licensing organizations.  

Stanko is an electrical engineer by training, and his industry experience includes roles as a developer for Alcatel, Cisco, and telecom startups. After moving from industry to Chipworks, he pioneered new software reverse engineering methodologies and led analysis in support of high-stakes IP litigation and industry licensing negotiations.  Following Chipworks, Stanko led patent assessment as Vice President of Technology Licensing at WiLan, where he managed WiLan's IP acquisition process and contributed to numerous IP licensing efforts. 

Stanko is also the developer of Patentcut.com, a patent analytics platform designed to effectively facilitate the review of US issued patents.   

Partner, Head of Strategy & Licensing

  Jeff is an IP litigator with extensive experience in high stakes litigation   

both as trial counsel and as an in-house leader at prominent global corporations known for innovation.

Jeff's career includes over a decade litigating dozens of patent, trademark, copyright, and trade secret trials and appeals throughout the U.S. (including numerous matters before the U.S. International Trade Commission and the Federal Circuit) and in multiple international jurisdictions.  

Additionally, Jeff spent more than a decade overseeing complex litigation and licensing matters at major global technology companies. Jeff served as Chief IP Counsel and as Chief Litigation Counsel at Tesla,  as Director of Patent Litigation and Patent Strategy & Licensing at Apple, and worked as in-house Patent Litigation Counsel at Abbott Laboratories, where he was responsible for both device and therapeutics patent cases.

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Jeff regularly advises clients on IP strategy, patent portfolio development, licensing, patent acquisitions, strategic relationships, technology transfers and joint development deals. He has personally negotiated and drafted in excess of 100 patent licenses, cross-licenses and patent purchase agreements between some of the most sophisticated technology companies in the world, and has been recognized by Intellectual Asset Management Magazine (IAM) as one of the “World’s Top IP Strategists.” 

 Principal & General Counsel  

 Boris is an electrical engineer and lawyer by training and has spent the bulk of his 10 year career working on  high-stakes intellectual property and other commercial disputes. 

  In addition to providing traditional in-house counsel functions, Boris brings to Highlands substantial experience in IP valuation, buy-side due diligence, commercial damages assessments, and patent landscaping & analytics.  

During his tenure at Navigant and Ankura Consulting, he directed teams involved in preparing dozens of expert witness reports in US & international litigation and arbitration; he also acted as the IP practice lead for patent analytics, contributing substantially to industry-leading efforts to use analytics to effectively evaluate Standard Essential Patents (SEPs) and to determine the appropriate royalty rates for SEP patent pools.  

Senior Advisor, Economics & Valuation

Larry is an expert in license negotiation, patent valuation, damages and reasonable royalty analysis in litigation, and deal origination and structuring.

Larry has advised clients on establishing royalty rates for worldwide licenses to standard-essential telecom patent portfolios; advised companies and investors in acquisitions of IP portfolios; and in negotiation of business terms of patent licenses and settlements of patent litigation.  

Larry is acknowledged as one of the world’s top 300 leading IP strategists by Intellectual Asset Management magazine. 

He held several securities licenses including, Series 7, 24, 53, and 63 during his tenure at Merrill Lynch.