Wendy Pan is the chair of Goodwin's Asia Life Sciences practices. Learn more about Wendy.

Wenseng “Wendy” Pan, J.D. & Ph.D.

PartnerChair of Goodwin Asia Life Sciences
Spoken Languages
English Mandarin
Wenseng “Wendy” Pan, J.D. & Ph.D.
New York
+1 212 813 8887

Dr. Wenseng “Wendy” Pan, Chair of Goodwin’s Asia Life Sciences, specializes in complex mergers and acquisitions, licensing and strategic partnership as well as private and public financing transactions, especially in the life sciences and technology industries and in cross-border settings. 

She has extensive experiences in both private and public financings and mergers and acquisitions (M&As).  She has advised buyers and sellers in biopharmaceutical, financial, TMT, manufacturing, consumer and other industries in stock and/or cash acquisitions, mergers, asset sales, tender offers, going-private and deSPAC transactions. She is a trailblazer in cross-border M&A transactions involving Chinese companies.  Her representations include the first acquisition of a US Nasdaq company by a PRC company, the first sale of a therapeutic asset invented in China to a global big pharma and the first royalty financing transaction on royalty stream from China.

A renowned cross-border business lawyer, she has deep experiences in structuring and negotiating complex in-licensing, out-licensing and strategic transactions, involving a variety of technologies, modalities and therapeutic areas, from early-stage research collaborations in drug and target discoveries, to development stage collaborations and cost/profit sharing options, and to commercial stage collaborations, such as co-promotion/co-marketing agreements.

She advises companies at all stages, addressing a broad spectrum of transactional legal needs, from initial company formation, corporate governance, to growth stage financing, strategic partnerships and joint ventures, to IPO and M&A exits.  Teaming up with litigation partners, she also helps her clients in resolving contractual disputes in life sciences partnerships.

Dr. Pan is ranked a Band 1 practitioner by Chambers and is recognized by IFLR1000 as a leading lawyer for M&A. She was also featured in the 2016 edition of Who’s Who Legal: Life Sciences (Transactional).  In 2023, she received the Biocentury/BayHelix “Woman Leader of the Year” Award and was nominated for the LMG “Licensing Lawyer of the Year” Award.

Dr. Pan is the chair of the BayHelix Group, a not-for-profit life sciences professional association.

Dr. Pan is fluent in English and Mandarin Chinese.

Experience

Dr. Pan’s experience in VC, PE, M&A, JV and licensing and strategic partnership in the life sciences industry includes advising:

Representative Matters

Credentials

Education

JD

Columbia University School of Law

(Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar)

PhDChemistry

Columbia University

(Pegram Award)

BS

Fudan University

(First Class Honors)

Admissions

Bars

  • New York
  • U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)