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SEC FORM 3 SEC Form 3

FORM 3

UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549

INITIAL STATEMENT OF BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP OF SECURITIES

Filed pursuant to Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
or Section 30(h) of the Investment Company Act of 1940

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1. Name and Address of Reporting Person^*

Murphy Polly A.

(Last)

(First)

(Middle)

125 SUMMER STREET

(Street)

BOSTON

02110

(City)

(State)

(Zip)

2. Date of Event Requiring Statement (Month/Day/Year)
10/29/2020

3. Issuer Name and Ticker or Trading Symbol
Atea Pharmaceuticals, Inc. [ AVIR ]

4. Relationship of Reporting Person(s) to Issuer
(Check all applicable)

X	Director	10% Owner
	Officer (give title below)	Other (specify below)

5. If Amendment, Date of Original Filed (Month/Day/Year)

6. Individual or Joint/Group Filing (Check Applicable Line)

X	Form filed by One Reporting Person
	Form filed by More than One Reporting Person

Table I - Non-Derivative Securities Beneficially Owned
1. Title of Security (Instr. 4)	2. Amount of Securities Beneficially Owned (Instr. 4)	3. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I) (Instr. 5)	4. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership (Instr. 5)

Table II - Derivative Securities Beneficially Owned (e.g., puts, calls, warrants, options, convertible securities)
1. Title of Derivative Security (Instr. 4)	2. Date Exercisable and Expiration Date (Month/Day/Year)		3. Title and Amount of Securities Underlying Derivative Security (Instr. 4)		4. Conversion or Exercise Price of Derivative Security	5. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I) (Instr. 5)	6. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership (Instr. 5)
1. Title of Derivative Security (Instr. 4)	Date Exercisable	Expiration Date	Title	Amount or Number of Shares	4. Conversion or Exercise Price of Derivative Security	5. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I) (Instr. 5)	6. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership (Instr. 5)
Series D Convertible Preferred Stock	⁽¹⁾	⁽¹⁾	Common Stock	7,122	⁽¹⁾	I	Held by the Marc & Polly Murphy Revocable Family Trust dated March 13, 2002
Series D-1 Convertible Preferred Stock	⁽¹⁾	⁽¹⁾	Common Stock	4,173	⁽¹⁾	I	Held by the Marc & Polly Murphy Revocable Family Trust dated March 13, 2002
Stock Option (Right to Buy)	⁽²⁾	08/19/2030	Common Stock	80,000	6.84	D

Explanation of Responses:

1. Each share of Preferred Stock automatically converts into the number of shares of Common Stock as shown in Column 3 without payment of further consideration at the holder's election or upon closing of the initial public offering of the Issuer's common stock. The shares have no expiration date.

2. The option vests and becomes exercisable in 36 equal monthly installments following August 17, 2020.

Remarks:

Exhibit 24 - Power of Attorney.

	/s/ Andrea Corcoran, attorney-in-fact for Polly A. Murphy	10/29/2020
	** Signature of Reporting Person	Date
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                               POWER OF ATTORNEY

        With respect to holdings of and transactions in securities issued by
Atea Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (the "Company"), the undersigned hereby constitutes
and appoints the individuals named on Schedule A attached hereto and as may be
amended from time to time, or any of them signing singly, with full power of
substitution and resubstitution, to act as the undersigned's true and lawful
attorney-in-fact to:

        1.    prepare, execute in the undersigned's name and on the
              undersigned's behalf, and submit to the United States Securities
              and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") a Form ID, including
              amendments thereto, and any other documents necessary or
              appropriate to obtain and/or regenerate codes and passwords
              enabling the undersigned to make electronic filings with the SEC
              of reports required by Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange
              Act of 1934, as amended, or any rule or regulation of the SEC;

        2.    execute for and on behalf of the undersigned, Forms 3, 4, and 5 in
              accordance with Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934,
              as amended, and the rules thereunder;

        3.    do and perform any and all acts for and on behalf of the
              undersigned which may be necessary or desirable to complete and
              execute any such Form 3, 4, or 5, complete and execute any
              amendment or amendments thereto, and timely file such form with
              the SEC and any stock exchange or similar authority; and

        4.    take any other action of any type whatsoever in connection with
              the foregoing which, in the opinion of such attorney-in-fact, may
              be of benefit to, in the best interestt of, or legally required
              by, the undersigned, it being understood that the documents
              executed by such attorney-in-fact on behalf of the undersigned
              pursuant to this Power of Attorney shall be in such form and shall
              contain such terms and conditions as such attorney-in-fact may
              approve in such attorney-in-fact's discretion.

        The undersigned hereby grants to each such attorney-in-fact full power
and authority to do and perform any and every act and thing whatsoever
requisite, necessary, or proper to be done in the exercise of any of the rights
and powers herein granted, as fully to all intents and purposes as the
undersigned might or could do if personally present, with full power of
substitution and resubstitution or revocation, hereby ratifying and confirming
all that such attorney-in-fact, or such attorneys-in-fact substitute or
substitutes, shall lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue of this Power of
Attorney and the rights and powers herein granted.

        The undersigned acknowledges that the foregoing attorneys-in-fact, in
serving in such capacity at the request of the undersigned, are not assuming,
nor is the Company assuming, any of the undersigned's responsibilities to comply
with Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.

        This Power of Attorney shall remain in full force and effect until the
undersigned is no longer required to file Forms 3, 4, and 5 with respect to the
undersigned's holdings of and transactions in securities issued by the Company,
unless earlier revoked by the undersigned in a signed writing delivered to the
foregoing attorneys-in-fact.

        IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Power of Attorney to
be executed as of this 16th day of October, 2020.


                                  Signature:    /s/ Polly A. Murphy
                                                -------------------
                                                Polly A. Murphy


                                  Schedule A
                                  ----------

        Individuals Appointed as Attorney-in-Fact with Full Power of
Substitution and Resubstitution

Jean-Pierre Sommadossi, Ph.D.
Andrea Corcoran
Wayne Foster