Company: St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Inc.
Position: Managing Counsel – Industry Ventures
Location: Memphis, TN
Description:
Responsibilities:
- Negotiates, drafts, and provides legal advice on transactions and other matters pertaining to industry ventures, strategic partnerships, and commercialization, including patent and copyright license agreements, data sharing agreements, term sheets, services and consulting agreements, inbound/outbound licensing agreements, technology agreements, reliance agreements, and partner and vendor agreements.
- Negotiates and provides legal guidance on domestic and international joint ventures and strategic partnerships.
- Facilitates the financial and legal structuring of new business entities, including but not limited to reviewing start-up entity formation documents, venture funding documents, and other complex entrepreneurial and/or commercialization arrangements.
- Protects St. Jude interests in research contracts, cooperative agreements, and other initiatives with industry partners and sponsors.
Qualifications:
Minimum Education and/or Training:
- A Doctorate of Jurisprudence (JD) degree required
- Eligibility for licensure in Tennessee within six months of hire
Minimum Experience:
- Fifteen (15) or more years of experience in multiple specialized areas of the law, such as labor and employment, academic programs, health care compliance, grants and contracting, intellectual property, medical staff relations, non-profit tax issues, animal care and use, environmental health and safety, and/or accreditation matters.
- Background representing health care industry clients strongly preferred
Licensure, Registration and/or Certification Required by Law:
- License to practice law in the State of Tennessee is required within six (6) months from date of hire into the position
Licensure, Registration and/or Certification Required:
- Active license to practice law in at least one U.S. jurisdiction