Healx
Legal Counsel
Legal Counsel
Posted 2 weeks ago
CambridgePermanentHybridFull-TimeSenior
Posted 2 weeks ago
Description
Legal Counsel
Location: Cambridge
Key responsibilities
Contract Management and Team Partnerships
What success looks like in the next 6 months:
What we're looking for
It’s a bonus if you have:
Healx is an equal opportunity employer.
Location: Cambridge
Key responsibilities
Contract Management and Team Partnerships
- Provide day-to-day legal support and partnership to teams across the business, helping identify legal risks and work with teams to manage them appropriately whilst balancing business interests.
- Draft, review, negotiate and execute a range of legal agreements (e.g. NDAs, collaboration agreements, MTAs, MSAs, SSAs, work orders, vendor and consultancy contracts).
- Organise and manage filing of all legal contracts, ensuring findability of documents based on the parties to the document, as well as by type of document and date of execution.
- Support strategic partnerships, including global academic and industry collaborations.
- Develop processes, guidance, policies and templates that support Healx in achieving its objectives.
- Work collaboratively with colleagues to embed good legal practices across Healx.
- Manage company secretarial activities, including compliance filings and reporting of key legal documents, leveraging external counsel as required.
- Manage legal aspects of fundraising activities, including coordinating communication with external stakeholders and their legal counsel.
- Manage relationships with Healx’s outside legal counsel.
- Manage compliance activities (e.g. data protection, IP, and research-related requirements, HR, technology).
- Adopt and incorporate GenAI workflows into legal processes to improve effectiveness and efficiency
What success looks like in the next 6 months:
- You have taken full ownership of the standard contract suite (NDAs, MTAs, MSAs, work orders) end-to-end, and the business comes to you first for these.
- reshaped the contract filing and review process so senior leaders can find a contract by party, type or date within minutes
- embedded multiple GenAI-assisted workflows into the team's contract review process, with measurable impact on turnaround time
- run standard agreements end-to-end without escalation, and have a clear view of which agreement types still need senior input
- built relationships so that the research, clinical and partnerships teams come to you directly for legal input and trust your judgement on routine matters
- issued statutory filings on time, and board and shareholder records are up to date.
What we're looking for
- Qualified lawyer (UK or equivalent jurisdiction).
- Approximately 5+ years’ post-qualification experience (or equivalent).
- Experience drafting and reviewing biotech and other commercial agreements.
- Ability to work across a range of legal topics, utilising external counsel where appropriate.
- Hands-on and collaborative approach to Legal.
- Interest in biotech/ techbio and its impact on improving patient outcomes.
It’s a bonus if you have:
- Familiarity with data protection (e.g. UK GDPR) and/or IP considerations.
- Global legal knowledge.
- Experience working as in-house counsel.
- Experience working with outside counsel.
- A background in health-tech or life sciences.
- Interest in and familiarity with AI tools.
- Experience working with Google Workspace, Slack, Confluence, DocuSign, Carta and other relevant tech tools.
Healx is an equal opportunity employer.
Healx
AI powered drug discovery accelerating treatments for rare diseases
CambridgeBiotechnology51 - 250
Healx
Shape the future of drug discovery by combining cutting edge AI with deep pharmacology to solve one of medicine's greatest challenges. Your work will directly accelerate treatments for millions waiting for hope, transforming rare disease care.