Job Opening

Faber Daeufer & Itrato (www.faberlawgroup.com) is a dynamic, independent law firm providing sophisticated, customized, transactional counsel for life sciences clients in the US and globally. Since its founding in 2003, we have built a premier boutique practice working with over 2,000 companies, research institutions and investors. Our firm includes 26 lawyers and 10 contracts specialists and paralegals and has primary offices in Boston, New York and the San Francisco Bay area.

Our firm is a growing and diverse team of professionals whose collective experience handling life science business transactions, in many cases leveraging prior in-house operational knowledge, is extraordinary in a law firm. We will maintain our established standards of excellence by hiring individuals with the highest professional capabilities and potential, a dedication to client service and an enthusiasm for contributing to our unique culture.

We have an extensive practice devoted to counseling our clients on:

• IP licenses and R&D collaborations between biotech and pharmaceutical companies covering therapeutic product candidates and/or discovery platforms
• IP license, sponsored research and collaboration agreements with academic research institutions
• clinical-stage and commercial-stage CMC and supply chain agreements for therapeutic products
• clinical collaborations, CRO agreements and clinical trial site agreements
• company launch, venture financing, research foundation financing, royalty financing, and M&A transactions

We also have an extensive practice devoted to counseling our clients on ordinary course transactions supporting drug discovery and development activities, including consulting agreements, services agreements (non-clinical or clinical), material transfer agreements, evaluation agreements, sponsored research agreements, academic consulting agreements, in-licensing of compounds, processes and platform technologies, clinical collaborations, clinical trial site agreements, and CMC and supply chain contracts. We are seeking 2-3 individuals to join this practice as mid-level associates (potentially, associate or counsel).

Education: JD degree required, and admission to practice (or eligible to seek admission to practice) in Massachusetts, New York or California (and, if applicable for hybrid remote work models, in the state of residence).

Experience And Substantive Background: Experience working in a transactional practice at a private law firm and/or company law department (in either case with strong training/supervision and support), primarily concentrated in the practice area identified above, is preferred. Familiarity with biology and chemistry principles relevant to pharmaceutical design and function, with types of commercial exclusivity for pharmaceutical products (IP and regulatory), and with the regulatory framework for therapeutic development and approval for commercial sale, is preferred. Understanding of intellectual property licensing practices and biotechnology business development practices is preferred. While we expect to consider candidates with 0-3 years (FTE) relevant experience, we particularly welcome candidates with more relevant experience.

Candidates should be effective in helping clients identify strategic goals, prioritize key issues, and find and document pragmatic solutions to these issues for a wide range of clients and transactions. Sophisticated communication skills and the comfort and confidence to interact directly with clinical, R&D and senior management at biotech and pharmaceutical companies, CROs, academic institutions, and research hospitals are crucial.

The ability to prioritize and manage multiple tight deadlines in a frequently high-paced environment is necessary to achieve the productivity demanded by our service model.

We strongly value the ability to effectively teach, supervise, manage and mentor junior lawyers and contracts specialists, and to work collaboratively with colleagues to share expertise, experience and perspectives.

Technical Skills: Excellent legal drafting ability is critical and must be accompanied by strong word processing skills. Facility with common technology tools is expected, including Microsoft Office, PDF document usage, document comparison software, document management systems, and teleconference and videoconference tools.