Partner

Timothy C. Atkins is a partner in the Life Sciences group at Goodwin. He joined the firm in 2023. Tim advises startups and venture capital-backed business as well as publicly traded, global companies in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device sectors. His work includes acquisition, protection, commercialization, and disposition of intellectual property assets as well as acting as outside general counsel for startup and emerging growth companies in the life sciences handling common formation, counseling of founders, private financings, and mergers and acquisitions.

Tim has extensive experience with life science-focused licensing, collaboration, joint development, joint venture transactions, and asset acquisition and dispositions transactions and with the panoply of commercial transactions pursued by life sciences companies including sponsored research, contract, manufacturing, supply, distribution, and clinical trial agreements.

JD 1997 Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law (magna cum laude); BA 1991 University of Notre Dame