Life Sciences Lawyer - Abu Dhabi

Legal Route - Global Legal Recruitment; United Arab Emirates; Hybrid; AED 200,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

A global healthcare provider is seeking a Data Protection/Regulatory Lawyer to lead a small team within their life sciences group. The role involves drafting and advising on complex contracts across various sectors in healthcare and technology. Ideal candidates have a solid background in data protection and regulatory compliance, as well as experience in a life sciences team. This position offers the chance to work on impactful projects in a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• Excellent academics, preferably a STEM undergraduate degree.
• Qualified solicitor with relevant legal experience from top tier practice.
• Prior experience in a life sciences team, especially within pharma/biotech.

Responsibilities

• Draft, review and advise on complex IP agreements and commercial contracts.
• Communicate with clients both independently and under supervision.
• Engage with cutting-edge technology commercialisation in biotech and healthcare.

Skills

Data Protection knowledge

Regulatory compliance

Drafting contracts

Advising clients

Education

STEM undergraduate degree

Qualified solicitor

Job description

Overview

Our client, a global healthcare provider is looking for a Data Protection/Regulatory Lawyer who will lead this small team of lawyers in their life sciences group. This is a key commercial role with a particular focus on government projects and work globally across pharma, biotechnology, medical devices, and digital health.

Responsibilities

• To draft, review and advise on a wide range of complex IP agreements, biopharma partnering arrangements and other commercial contracts in the life science and healthcare sectors. The client base spans the pharmaceutical, biotech (including AIDD, techbio, synbio and industrial biotech), medical devices, diagnostics, digital health and healthcare sectors and ranges from the most sophisticated multinational companies and investors to some of the world’s most innovative venture-backed early and growth stage companies.
• Your work will often be at the cutting edge of technology commercialisation, and you will have a real and direct impact on clients’ growth and on patient outcomes by supporting clients to bring to market new therapies, platforms and other products based on each new wave of technology.You will be immersed in an exciting, fast-paced ecosystem, with as much client contact as you can handle, with some of the world’s brightest-founder entrepreneurs and most insightful investors. Depending on experience, you will be expected to communicate with clients independently and under supervision.
• The majority of your work will be life-science and healthcare related, but there will be also opportunities in the deeptech sector (e.g. semiconductors, fusion and other energy generation tech, battery tech, graphene and other novel materials, robotics, quantum computing, cryptography, large-language model development etc) and in neighbouring fields, such as the cleantech, defence tech and space tech sectors.

Qualifications

• Excellent academics – STEM undergraduate degree in a technical area is helpful, but not required.
• A qualified solicitor with relevant legal experience gained from a top tier UK or international practice.
• Prior experience in a well-regarded life sciences team, advising a range of clients within the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and/or medtech industries.
• Strong Dataprotection/Regulatory background
• Excellent prior experience of advising, drafting, and reviewing contracts and agreements.