Legal & Compliance - Life Sciences (BXLS) - Attorney, SVP

Blackstone is the world’s largest alternative asset manager. We seek to create positive economic impact and long-term value for our investors, the companies we invest in, and the communities in which we work. We do this by using extraordinary people and flexible capital to help companies solve problems. Our $1.1 trillion in assets under management include investment vehicles focused on private equity, real estate, public debt and equity, infrastructure, life sciences, growth equity, opportunistic, non-investment grade credit, real assets and secondary funds, all on a global basis. Further information is available at www.blackstone.com. Follow @blackstone on LinkedIn, X, and Instagram.

Blackstone Life Sciences  

Blackstone Life Sciences is an industry-leading private investment platform with capabilities to invest across the life cycle of companies and products within the key life science sectors. By combining scale investments and hands-on operational leadership, Blackstone Life Sciences helps bring to market promising new medicines and medical technologies that improve patients’ lives and currently has $12 billion in assets under management.

Job Description:

The successful candidate will have day-to-day responsibility for all legal aspects of Blackstone’s Life Sciences business. The successful candidate will report to Blackstone’s General Counsel of Private Equity Strategies and work closely with investment professionals and business unit leadership, as well as various functions including other Blackstone Legal & Compliance groups.

Responsibilities:

Primary job responsibilities will include:

Transactional Support

• Review and provide comments to bid letters, term sheets and related bid documentation

• Leading and working with deal team/outside counsel on transaction documents and related issues

• Advise on transaction-related legal, structuring and regulatory matters

• Oversight of NDAs process and engagement letters

• Liaise with operations, tax, fund and compliance teams on a variety of matters, including signing and closing process, regulatory matters and LP and co-investor matters

Portfolio Company Support

• Monitor ongoing governance and other legal matters at portfolio companies

• Liaise with government relations and public affairs teams on portfolio company-related reputational and press matters

Other

• Participate in team meetings and investment committee meetings

• Liaise with government relations and public affairs teams on transaction-related reputational and press matters

• Advise on outside counsel selection

• Assisting on firm wide Legal & Compliance issues and projects as necessary

Qualifications:

Blackstone seeks to hire individuals who are highly motivated, proactive, intelligent, and have demonstrated excellence in prior endeavors. The successful candidate should meet the following qualifications:

• 10+ years experience at a law firm and/or in a legal role at a financial services, private equity or asset management firm with substantial knowledge of the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 and the day-to-day compliance affairs of private funds

• A J.D. is required as well as admission to the bar in MA and NY.

• The ability to travel regularly between Cambridge and New York

• Strong technical skills, intellect, and understands difficult, complex legal and business problems

• Works well with colleagues to devise pragmatic and creative solutions

• Prioritization, perspective and focus on critical tasks that add value

• Excellent organizational skills and follow-through 

• Highly effective verbal and written communication

• Develops strong professional relationships, internally and externally 

• Outstanding record of academic achievement and/or professional accomplishment

• Strong judgment and the ability to engender trust

• Professional integrity and

• Open to feedback, adaptable, collaborative, positive and proactive

• “Can do” attitude, sense of urgency, diligent and cons