Senior Corporate Counsel, R&D

Lantheus is headquartered in Bedford, Massachusetts with offices in New Jersey, 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:

We are looking for an attorney with 10+ years of relevant pharmaceutical/biotech industry experience to join the Lantheus Legal Department as Senior Corporate Counsel, R&D, responsible for identifying and resolving complex legal issues, clearly communicating legal and business risk, and advising on appropriate, practical strategies to manage risk and maximize business benefit to achieve business objectives relating to our R&D pipeline. Candidates should have experience counseling in-house business partners on legal topics relevant throughout the research and development phase of a product candidate, including materials transfers, research collaborations, licensing, establishing, and executing clinical research programs and related contracting activities. This attorney will collaborate with brand attorneys in preparation for commercial launch and work on other legal matters. Experience counseling on medical devices is a plus.

This position will serve as the primary legal business partner for the Lantheus R&D business teams and Innovation Office providing strategic legal and business advice and implementing strategic partnerships designed to achieve the Company’s R&D and commercial goals.

Key responsibilities:

Partnering with and advising all levels of the organization to facilitate compliant development, execution and achievement of corporate objectives focusing on our pipeline assets, including:

• Forming strong relationships and integrating closely with all relevant stakeholders to plug into and contribute to the Company’s pharmaceutical development, clinical development, regulatory, medical and commercial strategies regarding its preclinical and clinical assets.
• Pre-clinical and clinical development of the Company’s pipeline assets, including
• Drafting, negotiating, and interpreting a wide variety of agreements relating to the research and development of diagnostics, therapeutics and artificial intelligence solutions.
• Clinical Research Organization arrangements and other service provider agreements, for example,
• Clinical trial arrangements with investigators,
• Clinical trial supply / manufacturing agreements
• Informed consent and other clinical trial participant related matters, for example
• Patient privacy and rights
• Data integrity
• Clinical trial disclosure requirements including pharmacovigilance and drug safety matters,
• Collaboration/alliance agreements with academic and industry research and development partners,
• Supporting investigator-initiated trials.
• Strategic transactions relating to the Company’s pipeline assets, including
• Structuring, drafting and negotiating term sheets and appropriate agreements with academic and industry partners to acquire and/or make available pipeline assets, for example
• Licenses, collaborations, other strategic alliance relationships,
• Beta testing agreements,
• Collaborative development of potential companion diagnostics and/or artificial intelligence tools.
• Conducting related due diligence reviews.
• Identifying and resolving legal and business issues.
• Managing strategic business/alliance relationships, including managing disputes and clarifying the Company’s rights and responsibilities to enforce them through governance mechanisms or renegotiation of terms.
• Ensuring the business is kept abreast of relevant legal developments.
• Reviewing and advising on media relations materials, investor presentations, press releases, web sites and other company communications related to R&D matters.
• Other responsibilities as assigned.

This role will interact closely with our intellectual property, transactions and bran