General Counsel: General Counsel & Internal Legal VP/ Director/Associate
About this role
- Understands regulations in medical industries. Oversee corporate compliance, including HR policies, accounting standards, intercompany policies, and technical agreements; draft and maintain corporate policies, agreements, investor documents, and board minutes.
- Collaborate with accounting/audit teams to ensure financial compliance and reporting, while driving for anticipated IPO preparation and supporting post-IPO operations.
- Draft, negotiate, and manage contracts with vendors, customers, HR, strategic partners, landlords.
- Structure and negotiate licensing deals with major partners, including big pharma and CLIA labs; negotiate MOUs with governments and strategic stakeholders.
- Ensure compliance with federal, state, and international tax regulations while managing government contracts and healthcare-related regulatory requirements (e.g., FDA, IRB approvals, and liability management).
- Oversee compliance with all applicable laws and standards (state, federal, international) for direct-to-consumer products, clinical trials, informed consents, and risk management.
- Manage risk management, including insurance coverage negotiations, and lead potential litigation with cost-effective resolutions.
- Manage external law firms and vendors to ensure cost efficiency, negotiate effectively, and prevent unnecessary expenses.
- Support international market expansion by establishing compliant operations in new jurisdictions and setting up manufacturing plants.
- Build a lean legal function focused on cost savings and ensure agreements align with company goals and minimize risk.
- Lead cost efficiency/ reduction efforts by negotiating with suppliers, vendors, and legal firms while driving global growth initiatives.
- Provide leadership, mentorship, and legal expertise, supporting strategic initiatives and business development through strong written and oral negotiation skills.
- JD from a top-tier law school; active bar membership in good standing.
- 10+ years of legal experience (in-house and law firm), with expertise in healthcare, regulatory compliance, corporate governance, and IPO preparation.
- Strong track record in drafting, negotiating, and closing complex agreements with strategic partners, customers, vendors, and investors.
- Knowledge and experience in multi-jurisdictional operations, including setting up global operations.
- Experience negotiating public-private partnerships and drafting MOUs with government bodies.
- Exceptional negotiation, problem-solving, and communication skills (written and oral).
- Proven ability to reduce costs, negotiate effectively with suppliers and vendors, and achieve cost efficiency.
- Demonstrated ability to thrive in a fast-paced, high-growth, multi-disciplinary environment.
Company at a glance
Nanobiosym® (NBS) is an innovation engine dedicated to creating a new science that emerges from the holistic integration of physics, biomedicine, and nanotechnology. NBS focuses on incubating transformational technologies that have the potential for game-changing impact and commercializing and scaling up these technologies for deployment in developed and developing world markets. NBS leverages science and technology to address our planet’s greatest unmet needs in global health, energy and the environment. Nanobiosym® Diagnostics (NBSDx) focuses on the commercialization of its proprietary technology platform, that can rapidly and accurately detect genetic fingerprints from any biological organism, empowering people worldwide with rapid, affordable, and portable diagnostic information about their own health. To maximize global humanitarian impact, we have spearheaded the Nanobiosym Global Initiative, which is building innovative public-private partnerships with governments, NGO’s, academic, industrial and global thought leaders to help bring emerging technologies to address some of the world’s most pressing challenges.
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