Walt A. Linscott

Biography

Mr. Linscott brings three decades of global leadership, entrepreneurial and professional experience with broad business development, operational, regulatory, and transactional experience in the Life Sciences sector.   He is cofounder of a global consulting enterprise providing strategic advice to developing companies and has served as General Counsel and Corporate Secretary to public and private medical device and pharmaceutical companies Cocrystal Pharma, Inc., Carestream Health, Inc. and Solvay Pharmaceuticals, Inc. where he also led compliance, IP, security, privacy, public affairs and government affairs functions.  In addition, he was an associate and partner at Thompson Hine LLP for seventeen years collectively where he founded the firm’s Atlanta office, served as Partner in Charge and Chair of the firm’s Life Science Practice Group.  Mr. Linscott holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Global Business from the University of Oxford and has recently completed a Postgraduate Diploma in Entrepreneurship from Cambridge University.  He earned a Juris Doctor from the University of Dayton School of Law where he served as Managing Editor of the Law Review.  After graduating with a bachelor’s degree from Syracuse University and prior to entering law school, he earned a commission and served on active duty as an Officer in the United States Marine Corps.

Research Interest

Business Development