Senior Legal Counsel, Corporate Transactions, Cambridge, MA

Your impact 

We are hiring an exceptional, strategic, and results-driven Senior Legal Counsel, Corporate Transactions, to support and execute high-impact strategic transactions, including business development, corporate development, and other expanding deal pipelines. Reporting to the Head of Corporate Legal, you will play a key role in supporting transaction execution, scaling the legal function, and building our partnership network.

This role directly addresses our increasing transaction volume and complexity across corporate, business, and strategic deal pipelines, including specialized research collaborations, co-development agreements, M&A & investment deals. By bringing experienced transaction execution in-house, you will accelerate deal velocity and support our evolving partnership strategy.

As a core operational driver, you will scale our partnership strategy by establishing deal playbooks, standardizing term sheets, and building robust due diligence processes for corporate development and other strategic initiatives. You will also lead comprehensive risk mitigation across data licensing & corporate structuring. Ultimately, this role reinforces partnering and IsoLegal's contributions as essential investments to power Isomorphic Labs toward achieving its mission, directly aligning with and enabling our corporate priorities.

What you will do 

• Partner closely with deal team stakeholders and cross-functional teams to structure, draft, negotiate, and close complex corporate, business development, corporate development, and strategic transaction deal pipelines.
• Manage various transactions across their lifecycle, handling specialized research collaborations, co-development partnerships and data licensing agreements from concept through execution and kick-off.
• Play a leading role on all aspects of the transaction lifecycle from initial outreach through to final contract closing.
• Drive operational scaling within the IsoLegal function by developing standardized deal playbooks, template term sheets, and efficient due diligence workflows tailored to streamline corporate development and other strategic initiatives.
• Lead legal due diligence efforts, mitigating corporate, data licensing, information security and technology transfer risks while ensuring regulatory and contractual compliance.
• Streamline deal execution through tech enablement to decrease reliance on external legal counsel, optimize legal expenditures, and empower deal teams with business-minded legal counsel.
• Serve as a key liaison to BD, scientific, and leadership stakeholders, aligning legal risk management directly with Iso's strategic objectives and company goals.
• Operate at the interface of various stakeholders including Business Development, Alliance Management, Legal and scientific and research teams to capture requirements for contract drafting.

Skills and qualifications 

Essential:

• J.D. or equivalent legal qualification with 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 governanc 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, including contract review, drafting, and research.

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.