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Nestor Gounaris

Principal of China Solutions LLC (Shanghai)
J.D., University of Virginia School of Law, 2001
Georgetown University

Nestor Gounaris has been a principal of China Solutions LLC (Shanghai), a Shanghai-based advisory firm that assists clients with foreign direct investment and operation in China, since 2005. Current clients include shipyards, manufacturers, food processors, foreign diplomatic missions and service providers. He currently sits on the board of Energroup Holdings Corporation, an OTC Bulletin Board company, which has significant food processing capability in Liaoning Province, China.

From 2003 to 2005, Gounaris was an associate with Simmons & Simmons in Shanghai, working in the law firm's PRC-focused corporate and foreign direct investment practice. He also worked for O'Melveny & Myers in Shanghai as an associate from 2001 to 2003 after he graduated from University of Virginia School of Law.

Prior to attending law school, Gounaris was an Honors Paralegal with the U.S. Department of Justice's Antitrust Division in Washington, D.C. from 1996-1998. He holds a degree in Foreign Studies from Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service and has been a research fellow for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in Washington, D.C., and a Boren Fellow from the Academy of Educational Development. He also worked on various Sino-focused projects at the National Committee on US-China Relations, Committee for Scholarly Communications with the PRC, the Council on Foreign Relations and the Henry Luce Foundation. He is a member of the State Bar of New York, and is fluent in Mandarin and modern Greek.

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