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Elevar Therapeutics · 1 day ago

Senior Corporate Counsel (Remote)

United States

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$260K/yr - $290K/yr

12+ years exp

Elevar Therapeutics is a rapidly growing biotech company seeking a Senior Corporate Counsel to lead its Legal Team. The role involves providing legal support across the organization, managing a variety of business transactions, and ensuring compliance with legal obligations while collaborating with various departments.

BiotechnologyHealth CareMedicalPharmaceuticalProduct DesignTherapeutics

Responsibilities

Draft, review, negotiate, and manage a breadth of business transactions and contract types, including confidential disclosure agreements, master services agreements, statements of work, contract amendments, clinical trial agreements, supply agreements, quality agreements, and subscription agreements supporting R&D, Clinical, Supply Chain, Business Development, and Commercial

Support more advanced licensing transactions and other complex transactions

Interpret company’s rights and obligations under existing contracts, including agreements with existing strategic partners to then advise the CEO and management on the state of contractual affairs

Identify the need to engage and incorporate the advice of financial, technical, and other subject matter experts when working on a contract or transaction

Ability to identify and vet legal issues across an array of subject matters including intellectual property and privacy issues, specifically as they arise in transactional work

Maintain inventory of Elevar contract templates evolving and growing the infrastructure to fit business needs

Manage and own the legal portion of Medical, Legal, Regulatory process and the review of public-facing materials

Assist on internal policies development and management

Provide company-wide advice and guidance on a myriad of legal issues; managing and conferring with outside counsel when necessary

Act as and become a trusted business partner driving solutions for the organization

Direct the analysis of complex factual and legal scenarios involving various aspects of intellectual property to provide timely, practical, and actionable guidance to internal clients in research, development, and commercial functions

Qualification

J.D. from accredited law school15+ years legal experienceTransactional skillsContract management experienceIn-house biotech/pharma experienceIntellectual curiosityCompassionCollaboration skills

Required

Bachelor's degree with 15+ years or Master's degree with 12+ years' experience

J.D. from accredited law school required; admission to any U.S. state bar; eligible to practice in-house

8+ years of experience as a practicing attorney

Manage, oversee, grow, and scale our contract management system

Must have strong transactional skills and contract management experience

Requires intellectual curiosity; desire to learn, grow, and be challenged outside 'your lane'

Ability to demonstrate Elevar's core values by holding ourselves and each other accountable for the work we do, taking time to collaborate effectively while working remotely, making space for ingenuity in work and thought, and staying grounded in compassion