Anntim Vulchev is an associate in the Los Angeles office of DeForest Koscelnik Yokitis Skinner & Berardinelli. Mr. Vulchev’s litigation experience encompasses all types of business and commercial disputes, products liability actions and intellectual property disputes. He also has experience counseling businesses in real estate and technology licensing transactions.

Mr. Vulchev’s business and intellectual property litigation experience includes representing a defrauded former officer, director and chief scientist of a public biotech company during his separation from his former employer. He represented his client over the course of five years in several lawsuits in multiple jurisdictions. In addition, Mr. Vulchev has successfully defended clients in trade secret misappropriation and trademark actions, including defending former employees of a major internet advertising network accused of conspiring to steal customer lists and sensitive pricing information. He was also part of the team that represented one of the largest retailers in America in defeating an eight-figure breach of contract claim from a former staffing company based on a missing-price-term contract.

In his products liability practice, Mr. Vulchev has represented manufacturers of tires, engines and nautical craft in personal injury and wrongful death actions, including a major class action lawsuit alleging defects in run-flat tires. Mr. Vulchev currently defends general aviation manufacturers in personal injury and wrongful death product liability actions in both state and federal court.

In his business counseling practice, Mr. Vulchev represents a South Korean metals manufacturer in the company’s sale of a prime parcel of land in downtown Los Angeles. He also has experience in counseling online retailers and biotech companies regarding licensing agreements.

Mr. Vulchev received his law degree from the University of California, Berkeley (Boalt Hall School of Law) in 2003, where he won the Best Brief Award in the McBaine Honors Moot Court Competition. While in law school, he served as an editor of the California Criminal Law Review and as president of the Law in China Society and the Berkeley chapter of the Federalist Society, as well as a graduate student instructor in the History Department. He graduated from UC Berkeley with honors in 2000, and spent a year abroad at Peking University in Beijing, China.

Mr. Vulchev is a member of the California bar and is admitted to practice before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and the U.S. District Court for the Central, Eastern, and Northern Districts of California.

Mr. Vulchev is conversant in Mandarin Chinese, Spanish and Bulgarian.