Corporate Counsel

Lantheus is headquartered in Bedford, Massachusetts with offices in Canada, and Sweden.  For more than 60 years, Lantheus has been instrumental in pioneering the field of medical imaging and has helped physicians enhance patient care with its broad product portfolio. 

Lantheus is an entrepreneurial, agile, growing organization that provides innovative diagnostics, targeted therapeutics, and artificial intelligence (AI) solutions that empower clinicians to find, fight and follow disease.  At Lantheus our purpose and values guide our behaviors in all interactions and play a vital role in creating a dynamic environment that contributes to our success.  Every employee is crucial to our success; we respect one another and act as one knowing that someone’s health is in our hands.  We believe in helping people be their best and are seeking to bring together a diverse group of individuals with different viewpoints and skill sets to be a part of a productive and inclusive team. 

Summary of Role: 

Lantheus is searching for a Corporate Counsel – Transactions, Alliances & Contracting. This is an exciting opportunity to join the highly collaborative, experienced legal team of an established Nasdaq-listed pharmaceutical company. Reporting to the Vice President, Deputy General Counsel - Transactions, the successful candidate will be an experienced transactional attorney in the life sciences sector who will be instrumental in supporting the Company’s long-term growth strategy and core mission to find, fight and follow serious diseases.

Spend a few minutes reading about our Company’s continued transformation as a leader in the renaissance of radiopharmaceuticals and our future in precision medicine through the most recent acquisitions, investments, partnerships and additions to our clinical development pipeline, and that will give you a sense of who the Lantheus team is and where we are going. We are expanding our Legal team to enable the continued growth and success of our growing organization.

The Corporate Counsel – Transactions, Alliances & Contracting will play a pivotal role in providing legal and business advice and support across the organization with a focus on the CEO’s Innovation Office, helping the Company execute its long-term growth strategy through mergers and acquisitions, licenses, collaborations, strategic alliances, equity investments, innovative evidence generation collaborations and other business development transactions. The Corporate Counsel – Transactions, Alliances & Contracting will also work with the legal team on other in-house matters relating to contracting and general corporate matters, including securities law matters, which will ensure a well-rounded development experience.

The Lantheus legal team is experienced, well-regarded and close-knit, and is committed to integrity, high quality work product, pragmatic advice, professional development and career advancement. The successful candidate will find the work in the Legal Department to be sophisticated, diverse and challenging, with cutting edge strategic and business issues to address on a daily basis. The Corporate Counsel – Transactions, Alliances & Contracting will interact extensively with executives and personnel at all levels of the Company.

Key Responsibilities/Essential Functions:

• Work closely and collaboratively with the Company’s Innovation Office (comprised of Business Development, Digital Solutions, Biomarker Solutions and Portfolio Management) to execute on transactions aligned with our long-term corporate strategy.
• Lead or support all aspects of the transaction process, including by:
  • Understanding and championing the strategic rationale, investment thesis, financial model and operating plan for the transaction.
  • Advising on deal structuring.
  • Drafting and negotiating transaction agreements.
  • Designing and conducting risk-based legal due diligence reviews.
  • Informing decision-making and obtaining management and Board approvals.
  • Driving deals to closure.

• Plug into and partner closely with the Intellectual Property, Research and Pharmaceutical Development, Clinical Development, Biomarker Solutions, Regulatory, Technical Operations, Information Technology, Financial Planning and Analysis and other cross-functional teams and subject matter experts to:
  • Break down information and workstream silos.
  • Proactively identify and mitigate risks.
  • Ensure strategic, operational and financial alignment.
  • Obtain and leverage a holistic understanding of the transaction.
• Draft and comment on deal-related public communications and SEC disclosures.
• Liaise with alliance managers, joint steering committee members and other internal stakeholders and counterparties to assure understanding of the Company’s rights and obligations under existing agreements
• Advise on complex situations that may arise related to alliance relationships, and work to resolve disputes appropriately, with the long-term relationship in mind.
• Advise on go-to-market strategies for digital and artificial intelligence solutions.
• Draft, review and negotiate a wide variety of agreements outside of the transactions space and serve as a resource for the business and for legal colleagues.
• Manage outside counsel and related spend.
• Assist with creating, updating and maintaining form agreements and documents, designing standardized work processes, collecting and reporting on key metrics, and configuring and implementing legal services technologies, that all result in high quality and efficiency.

Qualifications:

• A JD degree with an impressive academic and professional record.
• Five – ten years of mergers and acquisitions, licensing, contracting and other relevant transactional experience in the life sciences sector at a reputable law firm and, preferably, also within an in-house legal environment (in-house experience at a public company is an additional plus).
• Substantial experience and demonstrated technical excellence in transactional agreement drafting, issue spotting and resolution, analytical thinking, negotiation, and steering cross-functional groups to consensus, including through unique, urgent situations where little precedent or guidance exists.
• A working knowledge of intellectual property, the drug approval and commercialization.
• process, applicable FDA and ex-US regulatory frameworks for pharmaceuticals and medical devices, and antitrust laws (experience with artificial intelligence solutions is a plus).
• The ability to provide timely, well-informed, “practical risk”-based advice that facilitates business decision-making in alignment with strategic objectives.
• A member in good standing of at least one state bar with the ability to become a member of the Massachusetts bar.

Core Values

• A passion for performing meaningful work that impacts patients’ lives;
• The highest integrity and sound judgment;
• Sophisticated emotional intelligence, strong interpersonal skills, a collaborative style and an ability to exert “soft influence” and build consensus;
• An ability to manage differing opinions, ambiguity and conflict effectively and to escalate issues appropriately;
• Confidence navigating a highly regulated, intellectual property-intensive, public company environment;
• Exceptional reasoning skills and a creative, pragmatic, solution-oriented and cross-functional problem-solving approach;
• Excellent oral and written communication and presentation skills;
• An innate and unshakable sense of ownership;
• Proactive and effective project planning skills;
• An ability to work independently with minimal supervision;
• An astute resourcefulness with which to attack unfamiliar legal and regulatory frameworks and business problems efficiently and effectively;
• A proactive, entrepreneurial mindset and a willingness to “roll up your sleeves” to get the job done;
• A serious interest in developing and implementing cross-functional process improvement initiatives;
• A serious passion, curiosity, receptiveness and capacity to learn about the Company, its complex and evolving businesses and industry, the underlying clinical use of its products, and the sale, delivery and use of its products within the healthcare system;
• An ability to set and manage multiple, constantly-changing, sometimes conflicting priorities in a dynamic, fast-paced environment; and
• A dedication to the highest level of customer service.

This position is intended to be hybrid, with an expectation of working out of the Company’s Bedford, Massachusetts executive offices at least three days per week and as otherwise necessary. Remote work may be considered for the right candidate.

Lantheus is committed to equal employment opportunity and non-discrimination for all employees and qualified applicants without regard to a person's race, color, sex, gender identity or expression, age, religion, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, marital status, or any characteristic protected under applicable law. Lantheus is an E-Verify Employer in the United States. Lantheus will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with known disabilities, in accordance with applicable law.

Any applicant requiring an accommodation in connection with the hiring process and/or to perform the essential functions of the position for which the applicant has applied should make a request to the Lantheus Talent Acquisition team at talentacquisition@lantheus.com.

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