Senior Legal Counsel, Corporate Transactions, Cambridge, MA

The role

You will support and execute high-impact strategic transactions including business development, corporate development, and other deal pipelines. You will partner with cross-functional teams to structure, draft, and negotiate complex agreements such as research collaborations and data licensing.

What you will do

• Partner with deal team stakeholders to structure, draft, negotiate, and close complex transactions.
• Manage transactions across their lifecycle from concept through execution and kick-off.
• Play a leading role on all aspects of the transaction lifecycle from initial outreach to final closing.
• Drive operational scaling by developing standardized deal playbooks, template term sheets, and due diligence workflows.
• Lead legal due diligence efforts to mitigate corporate, data licensing, information security, and technology transfer risks.
• Streamline deal execution through tech enablement to decrease reliance on external legal counsel.
• Serve as a key liaison to BD, scientific, and leadership stakeholders.
• Operate at the interface of Business Development, Alliance Management, Legal, and scientific teams.

Required qualifications

• J.D. or equivalent legal qualification
• Significant corporate transactional experience within biotech, pharma, or life sciences technology sectors
• 5 years experience at a highly-rated law firm advising on transactions
• Demonstrated success structuring and executing complex transactions, including research collaborations, co-development agreements and data licensing
• Proven expertise in legal risk mitigation, particularly around data governance and complex corporate structures
• Experience scaling legal operations, including building deal playbooks and standardizing term sheets and diligence processes
• Strategic thinker with proven experience in defining and executing long-term growth plans
• Significant understanding of the drug development lifecycle, from early-stage research through clinical development and commercialisation
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial, and globally distributed environment
• High level of personal integrity and dedication to fostering a collaborative culture
• Familiarity with leveraging AI tools and legal technology to streamline day-to-day workflows

Nice to have

• Advanced degree (PhD or MS) or industry experience in life sciences
• Experience working on buy-side M&A transactions or corporate VC
• Experience working in-house supporting business or corporate development teams

About the company

Isomorphic Labs (IsoLabs) was launched in 2021 to advance human health by building on and beyond the Nobel-winning AlphaFold system. The company uses AI models to accelerate scientific discovery and design novel molecules.