Cambridge, MA Strategic Transactions Counsel, APEX

Flagship Pioneering invents and builds companies that change the world.

We bring together the greatest scientific minds with entrepreneurial company builders and assemble the capital to allow them to take courageous leaps in human health, sustainability, and beyond.
What sets Flagship apart is our ability tounitelife science innovation, company creation, and capital investment under one roof in a way that islargely without precedent. Our team of scientists, entrepreneurial leaders, and professional capital managers are each aligned around an institutionalized process that enables us to innovate and create breakthroughsthatgenerate exceptional value for peopleand the planet.
Many of the companies

Flagship has founded have addressed humanity’s most urgent challenges: vaccinating billions of people against COVID-19, curing intractable diseases, improving human health, preempting illness, and feeding the world by improving the resiliency and sustainability of agriculture.

Flagship has been recognized twice on FORTUNE’s “Change the World” list, an annual ranking of companies that have made a positive social and environmental impact through activities that are part of their core business strategies, andhas been named four times to Fast Company’s annual list of the World’s Most Innovative Companies.

Position Summary

Flagship Pioneering is seeking a highly motivated Strategic Transactions Counsel to join our growing Transactions team.

Flagship undertakes dozens of complex and value-oriented transactions at any given time, including complex joint ventures and partnerships,licensing and collaborations,mergers and acquisition, initial public offerings,global fundraising as wellasandbusiness and corporate development initiatives. All oftheactivitiesassociated withtransactionsat Flagship are led by a cross-disciplinary group, referred to internally as the “APEX Group”.APEX is an acronym for “Acquisitions, Partnership, Equity ande Xecution.” This is an outstanding opportunity for an experienced life sciences attorney who wants exposure to some of the most innovative companies and partnerships involved in ground-breaking transactions.

• Rather than serving solely as a legal specialist, this role willsitat the intersection of business,law,strategy, finance, and transactions.
  
  This individual will partner closely withother business leaders in working on transactions, including members of Flagship’s Executive Leadership Team, Business Development,IP,Corporate Development,senior management of portfoliocompaniesandotherleadership teams to help execute a wide range of strategic transactions across the Flagship ecosystem.

Responsibilities

• Own and drive, together with other members of the APEX Group,the execution of transactions across the Flagship ecosystem, including licensing, collaboration,partnership, joint venture, M&A, and other strategic transactions as well asequity investments, recapitalizations, and other capital accessing activities
• Coordinate with other colleagues at Flagshipandexternal advisorstofacilitategreat decision-making.
• Drivethestructuringofcomplex transactions to achieve strategic and financial objectives.
• Drivethenegotiationoftransaction terms andthe completion of relevant processes.
• Help standardize transaction processes, playbooks, templates, and best practices across the organization.
• Manage multiple transactions simultaneously in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment.
• Stay ahead of industry trends, evolving regulations, and legal developmentsimpactingpharmaceutical collaborations and biotech transactions.
• Proactively engage and direct external law firm partners and advisors to manage high-stakes negotiations and complex deal structures and legalcostassociated with the same.
• Counsel internal stakeholders on…