Senior Healthcare M&A Associate

BCL Legal; New York (NY); On-site; USD 250,000 - 350,000; Full time

Job summary

Our client, a premier health care M&A practice, seeks a senior associate with 6+ years of M&A experience focused on health care to join their specialized team. The role involves significant deal ownership, structuring transactions, drafting documents, overseeing due diligence, and serving as the primary day-to-day contact for health care providers and private equity clients.

Strong communication and leadership are essential, as is familiarity with health care regulatory considerations that

Qualifications

• 6+ years of M&A experience with a health care focus.
• Strong communication and leadership capabilities.
• Familiarity with health care regulatory considerations in transactions.

Responsibilities

• Structure transactions and draft transaction documents.
• Oversee due diligence for health care deals.
• Serve as primary day-to-day client contact for health care providers and PE clients.

Skills

M&A

Healthcare focus

Client management

Leadership

Regulatory familiarity

Education

Juris Doctor (JD)

Job description

About the Firm

Our client is a well-established firm with a strong national reputation in specialized, industry-focused corporate work. The firm is known for deep sector expertise rather than a generalist approach, and has built one of the more prominent health care transactional practices in the market, advising both health care operators and the private equity sponsors actively investing in the space.

About the Practice

The Health Law Transactions team focuses exclusively on M&A, joint ventures, and complex transactions within the health care industry - a sector that has seen sustained, high-volume deal activity from private equity and strategic consolidators alike. The practice sits at the intersection of corporate M&A and health care regulatory expertise, giving associates a genuinely specialized skill set that few generalist corporate practices can offer.

The Role

The firm is seeking a senior associate with 6+ years of M&A experience and a focus on the health care industry to join this specialized team. The role carries significant deal ownership, including structuring transactions, drafting transaction documents, overseeing due diligence, and serving as the primary day-to-day client contact for health care providers and private equity clients. Strong communication and leadership skills are essential, as is familiarity with health care regulatory considerations that intersect with the transactional work.

Long-Term Career Benefits

• Deep sector specialization is a career asset. Health care M&A is one of the most consistently active, recession-resistant deal markets - building a genuine specialty here creates durable, differentiated value on a resume compared to generalist M&A experience
• Direct client ownership accelerates partnership readiness. Serving as primary client contact at the senior associate level - rather than working several layers removed from the client - builds the relationship-management track record firms look for at partnership consideration
• Dual expertise (M&A + regulatory) widens future options. This combination is highly transferable - valuable not only for law firm partnership track, but also for in-house roles at health care companies, private equity portfolio companies, or health care-focused investment firms
• Sustained deal flow from private equity sponsors provides consistent, high-quality transaction experience rather than boom-and-bust deal cycles common in less specialized practices

All inquiries and conversations are strictly confidential.