Vice President, Deputy General Counsel - Transactions

Overview

Lantheus is searching for its first Vice President, Deputy General Counsel – Transactions.

This is an exciting opportunity to join the highly collaborative, experienced legal team of an established Nasdaq-listed pharmaceutical company. Reporting to the General Counsel, 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.

Company Overview

Lantheus provides innovative diagnostics, targeted therapeutics and artificial intelligence solutions that empower clinicians to Find. Fight. Follow.® serious diseases to deliver better patient outcomes.

Our expertise in Radiopharmaceutical Oncology combines diagnostic and therapeutic radiopharmaceuticals to Find, Fight and Follow® cancers with a high unmet need, including prostate cancer and rare neuroendocrine tumors.

Our market-leading Precision Diagnostics allow clinicians to Find and Follow cardiovascular diseases in the earliest stages—when it matters most.

Today, we are also at the forefront of Digital Imaging Software, with groundbreaking artificial intelligence technologies that assist clinicians in diagnosis, and Pharmaceutical Services, with radiopharmaceutical tracers and microbubbles that move our partners toward the promise of precision medicine.

Strategic Partnerships are another critical component of our focus on innovation. These partnerships are how we connect and collaborate with like-minded companies, institutions and inventors who align with our strategy to deliver precision medicine to patients across the healthcare spectrum.

We are a growth company with over 65 years of radiopharmaceutical expertise that has nearly tripled its revenue in the last two years.

Our executive offices are located in Bedford, Massachusetts, with additional offices in North Billerica, Massachusetts, Somerset, New Jersey, Montreal, Canada and Lund, Sweden.

Position Information

This may be one of the most exciting positions for a transactional attorney in the life sciences sector. Spend a few minutes reading about our Company’s transformation as a leader in the renaissance of radiopharmaceuticals and our future in precision medicine through the most recent additions to our clinical development pipeline, and that will give you a sense of who the Lantheus team is and where we are going.

The Deputy General Counsel – Transactions will play a leading role in providing legal and business advice and support to the Corporate Development team, helping the Company execute its long-term growth strategy through mergers and acquisitions, licenses, collaborations, strategic alliances, Pharma Services deals and other business development transactions. The Deputy General Counsel – Transactions will also work with the legal team on other in-house 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 Deputy General Counsel – Transactions will interact extensively with executives and personnel at all levels of the Company, including the Board of Directors.

Among their other duties, the successful candidate will:

• Work closely and collaboratively with the Company’s Corporate Development team (comprised of Business Development, Digital Solutions, Pharma Services 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 and
  • driving deals to closure;
• Plug into and partner closely with the Intellectual Property, Research and Pharmaceutical Development, Clinical Development, 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 and
  • 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, and work to resolve post-closing disputes appropriately, with the long-term relationship in mind;
• Manage outside counsel and related spend; and
• 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

At a minimum, the successful candidate must have:

• A JD degree with an impressive academic and professional record;
• A minimum of ten years of broad 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 as first chair, and steering cross-functional groups to consensus, including through unique, urgent situations where little precedent or guidance exists;
• A strong 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;
• The ability to provide timely, well-informed, “practical risk”-based advice that facilitates business decision-making in alignment with strategic objectives; and
• A member in good standing of at least one state bar with the ability to become a member of the Massachusetts bar.

Lantheus is also looking for the right fit for its legal team and the Company, which means the successful candidate must also have:

• 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 three days per week and as otherwise necessary. Remote work may be considered for the right candidate.