Matthew Atkey Bio

Matthew is a transactional attorney who leverages his corporate experience and deep industry knowledge to help clients across the life sciences and technology sectors execute a broad spectrum of transactions. He represents parties on all sides of financing transactions, private placements, and public offerings and counsels life sciences companies on a variety of commercial agreements. Clients ranging from start-ups to public corporations also rely on Matthew’s advice on matters involving Canadian corporate and securities law. Matthew has extensive experience advising issuers, investors, and dealers in public and private corporate finance transactions, including venture capital financings, private placements, and public offerings, including IPOs. He also regularly works with acquirers and targets undertaking public or private M&A transactions, such as share acquisitions, plans of arrangement, and other business combinations. In addition, Matthew provides guidance to life sciences clients on the full spectrum of their commercial agreements, helping them negotiate and set up IP licensing transactions, distribution arrangements, and research and collaboration agreements. Prior to joining Mintz, Matthew was counsel at a major Canadian law firm, where he advised clients across the life sciences and technology sectors on capital markets transactions, private placements, venture capital financing, and commercial agreements. Earlier, while working as a senior research assistant at the University of Western Ontario, Faculty of Law, he led a research project focused on Canada’s Securities Transfer Act. In that role, he also assisted with updating the publications Secured Transactions in Personal Property in Canada, Annotated Ontario Personal Property Security Act, and Canadian Commercial Reorganization: Preventing Bankruptcy.