The Novartis Legal Divestments team is seeking a Senior Legal Counsel responsible for managing and executing legal aspects of strategic and complex divestments in close collaboration with M&A, BD&L and strategy colleagues. This opportunity will play a key role Novartis’s portfolio and lifecycle management activities and overall enterprise strategy.
What you will be doing:
•Independently manage legal work streams on strategic and complex transactions in close collab-oration with M&A, BD&L, Strategy, functional and divisional stakeholders
•Define transaction objectives with project leads and other stakeholders and develop and implement project plans to achieve them, including timelines, reporting and key deliverables
•Take direct responsibility for legal advice and documentation and related work streams on trans-actions, including structuring, due diligence, signing, closing and post-closing/integration activities
•Drive robust due diligence processes, including external legal support, to identify, assess and communicate legal, regulatory and deal risks and to propose and implement appropriate risk mitigation
•Work with M&A, BD&L, Strategy, functional and other business colleagues to ensure appropriate due diligence on other aspects of transactions is completed and addressed in transaction structuring and terms
•Review, draft and negotiate transaction documentation to achieve transaction objectives and reflect agreed commercial terms, due diligence findings, legal and regulatory requirements and in-ternal policies and procedures
•Develop and implement creative solutions to structuring and legal issues on transactions, working with multiple stakeholders including tax, finance and P&O/C&B colleagues and external advisors
•Communicate and make recommendations to M&A, BD&L colleagues, senior management and other stakeholders in respect of legal and commercial issues arising in connection with transactions
•Support IR and PR on transaction-related communications
•Support the transition of closed transactions to responsible functional, divisional and integration/separation teams
•Proactively contribute to the development of a best-in-class transactions team at Novartis and initiatives to improve Novartis Legal
•Manage external legal counsel, including negotiating statements of work, setting and monitoring budgets and ensuring compliance with Novartis external counsel guidelines
Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion:
We are Equal Opportunity Employers and take pride in maintaining a diverse environment. We do not discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training, promotion or other employment practices for reasons of race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital or veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status. We are committed to building diverse teams, representative of the patients and communities we serve, and we strive to create an inclusive workplace that cultivates bold innovation through collaboration and empowers our people to unleash their full potential.
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Role Requirements
What you will bring to the role:
Education:
•Law (JD degree) from an accredited law school required.
•Admitted to practice in a State in the US (e.g., NY, NJ, MA) required.
•Must be able to draft complex legal documents and negotiate in English
Experience:
•Minimum 6+ years of relevant transactional / divestments experience (post-qualification) at a major law firm or in-house
•Transactional experience in the life sciences sector, including licensing, co-development, joint ventures, in-out licensing, and divestments is required
•Significant experience executing complex public and private mergers and acquisitions transactions (both buy-side and sell-side) and other corporate transactions (e.g., joint ventures, equity and debt investments)
•Experience in related commercial arrangements (e.g., services and supply arrangements) a significant plus
•Life sciences experience required; VC and/or digital experience a significant plus
•Strong business acumen and proven ability to work and to lead in a matrixed organization
•Excellent written and verbal communication skills
•Proven ability to work on multiple projects at any given time in a fast-paced environment
•High attention to detail
•Ability to work independently yet collaboratively while keeping key stakeholders informed
•Team player in a multidisciplinary, cross-cultural environment, high level of flexibility
•Ability to;
o exercise initiative and sound judgment.
o prioritize tasks and maintain efficiency; and
o identify opportunities for improvement
• Excellent organizational skills
Why Novartis:
Our purpose is to reimagine medicine to improve and extend people’s lives and our vision is to become the most valued and trusted medicines company in the world. How can we achieve this? With our people. It is our associates that drive us each day to reach our ambitions. Be a part of this mission and join us!
Learn more here: https://www.novartis.com/about/strategy/people and culture
You’ll receive: You can find everything you need to know about our benefits and rewards in the Novartis Life Handbook. https://www.novartis.com/careers/benefits rewards
Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion:
Novartis is committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse teams’ representative of the patients and communities we serve.
Join our Novartis Network:
If this role is not suitable to your experience or career goals but you wish to stay connected to hear more about Novartis and our career opportunities, join the Novartis Network here:
https://talentnetwork.novartis.com/network
The pay range for this position at commencement of employment is expected to be between: $201,600.00 and $302,400.00 USD per year; however, while salary ranges are effective from 1/1/23 through 12/31/23, fluctuations in the job market may necessitate adjustments to pay ranges during this period. Further, final pay determinations will depend on various factors, including, but not limited to geographical location, experience level, knowledge, skills and abilities. The total compensation package for this position may also include other elements, including a sign-on bonus, restricted stock units, and discretionary awards in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits (including 401(k) eligibility and various paid time off benefits, such as vacation, sick time, and parental leave), dependent on the position offered. Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer of employment. If hired, employee will be in an “at-will position” and the Company reserves the right to modify base salary (as well as any other discretionary payment or compensation program) at any time, including for reasons related to individual performance, Company or individual department/team performance, and market factors.
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