Legal Counsel, London

Isomorphic Labs; Greater London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading AI-driven biotech firm in Greater London is seeking a Legal Counsel to provide strategic legal support to its drug design teams. This role involves drafting and negotiating various agreements, advising on legal queries, and maintaining legal records. The ideal candidate is a UK-qualified solicitor with experience in the pharmaceutical or biotech sectors. This position requires collaborative skills and a proactive mindset in a hybrid working environment, with a commitment to strong corporate values.

Qualifications

• 3 years post-qualified experience in private practice or in-house.
• Preferred experience in drug discovery and development transactions.
• Impeccable record-keeping and stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities

• Draft and negotiate a wide range of agreements.
• Advise on ad hoc legal queries.
• Build relationships to understand enterprise risks.

Skills

UK-qualified solicitor

Experience with commercial agreements

Legal operations experience

Strong analytical skills

Collaborative working ability

Education

STEM degree (preferably in life sciences)

Job description

About Iso

Isomorphic Labs (IsoLabs) was launched in 2021 to advance human health by building on and beyond the Nobel‑winning AlphaFold system. Since then our interdisciplinary team of drug discovery experts and machine learning specialists has built powerful new predictive and generative AI models that accelerate scientific discovery at digital speed. We are continually innovating on model architecture and developing cutting‑edge capabilities to advance rational drug design. Every day we are getting closer to the promise of digital biology and achieving our ambitious mission to one day solve all disease with the help of AI.

Your impact

As Legal Counsel you will directly impact the company’s future by working closely with and advising our AI Drug Design and commercial teams. This role will report to Senior Legal Counsel and provide a unique opportunity to help shape Isomorphics legal function. As a member of the IsoLegal team you will balance strategic contributions with practical tasks and will build trusted relationships with scientists and engineers using your knowledge and influencing skills to shape how we build and develop Isomorphics business from a legal perspective.

What you will do

• Support drafting and negotiating a range of agreements such as NDAs, master service agreements, statements of work, data and software licence agreements, R&D agreements, inbound services agreements, collaboration agreements and consulting agreements.
• Assist with advising the business on ad hoc legal queries in a timely manner including summarising and communicating legal concepts and helping assess and mitigate legal risk.
• Build positive relationships with clients across disciplines to understand and manage enterprise risks, streamline contracting processes and ensure effective collaboration with the legal team.
• Help establish, maintain and improve our standard form agreements, legal and compliance processes and legal operations.
• Maintain accurate and up-to-date legal records.
• Deal with evolving areas of law including corporate / commercial, data privacy, technology and regulatory compliance.

Skills and qualifications

Essential :

• UK‑qualified solicitor with 3 years post‑qualified experience in private practice and / or on an in‑house team.
• Experience drafting and negotiating commercial agreements with experience in drug discovery and development and CRO / CDMO transactions strongly preferred.
• Experience with legal operations including impeccable record‑keeping, managing stakeholder approvals and signatures and driving efficiency in the contracting process.
• Willingness and ability to work collaboratively with colleagues and legal team members on a broad range of legal matters.
• Strong analytical and organisational skills.
• Demonstrated ability to grasp legal, scientific and technical concepts quickly.
• Ability to prioritise work independently and manage numerous simultaneous projects under deadline pressure.

Nice to have :

• Prior in‑house experience at a pharmaceutical, biotech, technology and / or research‑focused organisation working side by side with the wider company stakeholders.
• Desire and ability to identify flexible, creative solutions to complex and difficult challenges and work in a high‑ambiguity, high‑change environment.
• STEM degree preferably in life sciences.

Culture and values

We are guided by our shared values. It’s not about finding people who think and act in the same way. These values help to guide our work and will continue to strengthen it.

Thoughtful – curiosity, creativity and care. It is about good people doing good rigorous and future‑making science every single day.

Brave – fearlessness but also initiative and integrity. The scale of the challenge demands nothing less.

Determined – the way we pursue our goal. Confidence in our hypothesis as well as the urgency and agility needed to deliver on it. Because disease won’t wait so neither should we.

Together – connection, collaboration across fields and catalytic relationships. It’s knowing that transformation is a group project and remembering that what we’re doing will have a real impact on real people everywhere.

Hybrid working

It’s hugely important for us to share knowledge and build strong relationships with each other and we find it easier to do this if we spend time together in person. This is why we follow a hybrid model and would require you to be able to come into the office 3 days a week (currently Tuesday, Wednesday and one other day depending on which team you’re in). If you have additional needs that would prevent you from following this hybrid approach we would be happy to talk through these if you’re selected for an initial screening call.

Closing date for applications: Monday 10th November 2025.

We are committed to equal employment opportunities regardless of sex, race, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital or domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding) or any other basis protected by applicable law. If you have a disability or additional need that requires accommodation please do not hesitate to let us know.