Healthcare Transactions Counsel

Jobot; Canada; On-site; CAD 244,067 - 372,880; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare-focused law firm in Canada is seeking an experienced Transactional Attorney to manage healthcare transactions, including drafting and negotiating various contracts. The ideal candidate will have a JD and an active bar license, along with over 6 years of experience in healthcare transactions or corporate/M&A work. This role provides a significant opportunity for involvement in strategic initiatives and collaboration with business leadership, driving impactful healthcare solutions.

Qualifications

• 6+ years experience in healthcare transactions or hospital-focused corporate/M&A work.
• Strong drafting and negotiation skills with complex deals experience.
• Practical judgment balancing risk and business needs.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage healthcare transactions including structuring and drafting.
• Draft and negotiate MSAs, SOWs, service agreements, and other contracts.
• Support M&A-related workstreams including due diligence.

Skills

Healthcare transactions

Drafting and negotiation

Regulatory compliance knowledge

Cross-functional collaboration

Organizational skills

Education

JD and active bar license

Job description

Want to learn more about this role and Jobot? Click our Jobot logo and follow our LinkedIn page!

Overview

Transactional Attorney for a large healthcare system. This Jobot Job is hosted by Sherwin Souzankari.

Salary $180,000 - $275,000 per year.

What You’ll Do

• Lead and manage healthcare transactions from intake through close, including structuring, drafting, negotiating, and advising on risk.
• Draft and negotiate a wide range of agreements, such as MSAs, SOWs, service and professional services agreements, strategic partnership agreements, JV/affiliation agreements, managed services, and other complex commercial contracts.
• Support M&A-related workstreams and integrations, including diligence, deal documentation support, and post-close contract transitions.
• Provide regulatory issue-spotting and guidance tied to healthcare transactions (e.g., Stark, Anti-Kickback, HIPAA/Privacy, Medicare/Medicaid considerations), partnering with compliance and specialty counsel as needed.
• Collaborate with supply chain, IT, revenue cycle, clinical leadership, finance, and business development teams to keep deals moving efficiently.
• Develop playbooks, templates, and contracting processes to improve cycle time, consistency, and risk management across the enterprise.
• Manage outside counsel strategically, including budgeting, scoping, and ensuring advice is aligned with business priorities.

What We’re Looking For

• JD and active bar license (in good standing).
• 6+ years of experience in healthcare transactions and/or hospital-focused corporate/M&A work (mix of law firm and in-house experience welcomed).
• Strong drafting and negotiation skills with proven experience handling complex deals with multiple stakeholders.
• Working knowledge of key healthcare regulatory frameworks impacting transactions (Stark, Anti-Kickback, HIPAA/Privacy, reimbursement-related concepts).
• Practical judgment and the ability to balance risk and business needs in a fast-paced environment.
• Comfort working cross-functionally and communicating clearly with non-legal partners and senior leadership.
• Organized, responsive, and able to manage competing priorities with minimal supervision.

Preferred Qualifications In Addition To Above

• Experience supporting hospital systems, health systems, physician groups, MSOs, payors, digital health, or other healthcare services organizations.
• Experience with joint ventures, provider alignment strategies, clinical service line arrangements, value-based arrangements, or complex vendor relationships (including health IT).
• Familiarity with procurement/supply chain contracting, data/security terms, and enterprise technology transactions.
• Experience building contract processes (templates, clause libraries, intake workflows, playbooks).

Why This Role

• Broad, enterprise-wide exposure with meaningful impact on strategic initiatives.
• High level of collaboration with business leadership and operational teams.
• A seat at the table for complex, high-value deals in a mission-driven organization.

Interested in hearing more? Easy Apply now by clicking the "Easy Apply" button.

Jobot is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We provide an inclusive work environment that celebrates diversity and all qualified candidates receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, age (40 and over), disability, military status, genetic information or any other basis protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. Jobot also prohibits harassment of applicants or employees based on any of these protected categories. It is Jobot’s policy to comply with all applicable federal, state and local laws respecting consideration of unemployment status in making hiring decisions.

Sometimes Jobot is required to perform background checks with your authorization. Jobot will consider qualified candidates with criminal histories in a manner consistent with any applicable federal, state, or local law regarding criminal backgrounds, including but not limited to the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring and the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.

Information collected and processed as part of your Jobot candidate profile, and any job applications, resumes, or other information you choose to submit is subject to Jobot's Privacy Policy, as well as the Jobot California Worker Privacy Notice and Jobot Notice Regarding Automated Employment Decision Tools which are available at jobot.com/legal.

By applying for this job, you agree to receive calls, AI-generated calls, text messages, or emails from Jobot, and/or its agents and contracted partners. Frequency varies for text messages. Message and data rates may apply. Carriers are not liable for delayed or undelivered messages. You can reply STOP to cancel and HELP for help. You can access our privacy policy here jobot.com/privacy-policy

Want to learn more about this role and Jobot?

Click our Jobot logo and follow our LinkedIn page!