Charity Williams

Charity R. Williams represents public and privately held life sciences companies in general corporate matters, as well as a wide range of transactions, including licensing and commercial agreements, joint ventures, strategic collaborations, and mergers and acquisitions with complex earnout structures. Charity is a member of the board of directors of Athena San Diego, an organization for executive women in the San Diego life sciences, healthcare, defense, technology, and related business communities. Prior to rejoining Cooley, Charity ran her own practice representing life science and technology companies in corporate and intellectual property litigation matters and was chief business officer and in-house counsel for Catheter Connections, a medical device developer based in Salt Lake City, Utah. Before her work as an attorney, Charity served as the interim CEO of Veritract, a startup medical device company. She was also a senior associate at the University Venture Fund, where she executed life science venture capital and growth equity investments. Charity also served as an associate at the Lassonde New Venture Development Center, where she led her team to win the Life Sciences Grand Prize at the Carnegie Mellon McGinnis Venture Competition.