Legal counsel

Cambridge
Healx
Legal counsel
Posted: 17h ago
The role
Legal Counsel
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.
Company Secretarial
  • 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.
Governance and compliance
  • Manage compliance activities (e.g. data protection, IP, and research-related requirements, HR, technology).
Tech-forward Legal
  • 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.
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