Nikhil Shiva

Nikhil “Nik” Shiva is an associate in the firm's Business Law department. He joined Goodwin in 2023.

While attending law school, Nik was an associate editor of the Stanford Journal of Law, Business & Finance, and he led the Small Business & Entrepreneurship Project. Nik also served as a research assistant for the Stanford NPE Litigation Database. He spent his first summer in law school working as a legal intern at Start Small Think Big. Prior to law school, Nik worked as an analyst at the AbbVie Innovation Center and as a consultant at ZS Associates. He also volunteered with AmeriCorps as a member of Illinois JusticeCorps.

Nik earned Pro Bono Distinction at Stanford Law School and received a certificate from the Ignite Program in Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business. He is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa and Tau Beta Pi honor societies.

Co-Author, “CRISPR-SKIP: programmable gene splicing with single base editors,” Genome Biol 19, 107, 2018