Joshua Rottner > Goodwin > Boston, United States > Lawyer Profile

Goodwin
100 NORTHERN AVENUE
BOSTON MA 02210
MASSACHUSETTS
United States
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Position

Partner

 

Career

A partner in Goodwin’s Life Sciences group, Josh counsels high-growth life sciences, healthcare and technology companies from their formation through an initial public offering or M&A exit. Josh often serves as his clients’ outside general counsel, advising them on startup and formation matters, corporate governance, financing transactions, mergers and acquisitions, and other strategic transactions, working closely with his clients’ management teams and boards of directors to achieve their strategic goals.

In addition, Josh has extensive experience representing venture capital and growth equity funds in their portfolio company investments and acquisitions in the healthcare and technology industries. He also advises public companies in public offerings, Securities and Exchange Commission periodic reporting and compliance, and M&A transactions.

Education

JD, 2008

Boston College Law School

BA, 2001

Bates College

Lawyer Rankings

United States > Healthcare > Life sciences

Goodwin’s global practice advises biotech, pharma, and healthcare companies, along with life science venture capital and investment firms. The growing practice supports clients in matters as wide-ranging as regulatory compliance, IP and M&A. The team’s representation of Prime Medicine in its $3.5bn deal with Bristol Myers Squibb evidences its excellence in research collaboration and license agreement matters. The practice is headed by Kingsley Taft, vastly experienced in commercial, financing and capital market transactions, and Mitchell Bloom, who specializes in emerging companies and life sciences investors. Both in Boston, transactional lawyer Robert Puopolo and Marishka DeToy, who focuses on capital markets and corporate matters, are key figures in the practice. In DC, Steven Tjoe focuses on product development strategies and FDA regulatory counseling. Arriving on the Boston-based team from Cooley LLP are Joshua Rottner, venture capital and growth equity funds specialist, and Michael McGrail, focused on medical devices and life sciences. Other key hires include litigation expert Michael Siekman, arriving in Boston from McDermott Will & Emery LLP, M&A specialist Amanda Gill, from Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, and IP lawyer Carl Morales, from Fenwick & West LLP; the latter two are based in New York.