Bart G. Newland

Bart brings to Atalanta extensive experience in biotech senior leadership along with legal and intellectual property expertise. Bart served as Biogen’s senior vice president and chief I.P. counsel for over ten years immediately prior to joining the Company. Prior to Biogen, Bart was vice president – intellectual property at Genzyme Corporation as well as a partner and shareholder at Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck in Washington, D.C. Bart’s legal career has included taking depositions of Nobel Prize winners, arguing in Federal Court, negotiating billion-dollar settlements, and meeting with US senators and representatives on Capitol Hill to promote patent law reforms. Bart earned his B.S. (honors) in microbiology from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and a J.D. degree from the nation’s first law school – William & Mary Law School at the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. He serves on the Board of Directors of his law school alumni association where he mentors students.

Bart’s life has been engulfed in music, from banging pots and pans (earning him –and relieving his parents– drum lessons as a 5-year-old), to playing the cello, then playing the tuba in marching band throughout high school and college. He has attended over 70 Grateful Dead concerts on both coasts and venues in between!