Counsel - Mergers & Acquisitions - Washington, United States - Danaher Corporation

Danaher Corporation

Verified Company

Washington, United States

2 weeks ago

Posted by:

Mark Lane

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Description

At first glance, you'll see Danaher's scale.

Our 65,000+ associates work across the globe at more than 15 unique operating companies within three platforms—life sciences, diagnostics, and biotechnology.

Look again and you'll see the opportunity to build a meaningful career, be creative, and take risks with the support you need to be successful.

You'll find associates who are as certain about their impact as they are about where they're headed next.

You'll find the Danaher Business System, which makes everything possible.

You'll also see a company that investors trust—our culture of continuous improvement has helped us outperform the S&P 500 by more than 5,000% over the past 25 years.

Position Summary:

The Counsel, M&A position is responsible for providing leadership, guidance, direction and execution in connection with Danaher's mergers & acquisitions (M&A) process.

This position will work closely with Danaher's Corporate Development personnel on a broad range of day-to-day M&A activity.

One of the key responsibilities of the position will be to counsel the Corporate Development function on legal issues.

This role may vary from deal to deal, but will include supervising the work of outside counsel, helping oversee aspects of the legal due diligence process, assessing due diligence findings and determining how to deal with issues that are identified, negotiating agreement terms with opposing counsel, and coordinating and overseeing the regulatory approval process.

This position will provide appropriate support and counseling to Corporate Development associates working on such matters.

The position will also be responsible for advising on other strategic transactions, including but not limited to venture capital investments, joint development and commercialization projects (including with leading universities and commercial partners), and corporate partnership agreements, with the support of intellectual property (IP) counsels.

The position will be responsible for helping assess Danaher's M&A practices from a process perspective with a view to implementing a more systematized, process-based approach to the legal M&A function.

This role will be responsible for helping ensure consistency regarding process and contract terms from deal to deal, and will also implement processes to ensure that the institutional knowledge acquired in connection with each transaction is captured and shared throughout the M&A function.

The position is ideal for an agile, transactionally oriented lawyer with broad substantive exposure in the life sciences, technology, bioprocessing or clinical diagnostics fields.

Reporting to the Senior Counsel, M&A, this position will partner closely with Danaher's Corporate Development, Ventures and Science & Technology teams, as well as platform and operating company lawyers across all of Danaher's businesses, and will interact with and advise executive stakeholders.

This position will also collaborate with other Danaher Corporate functional leads, including IP, tax, labor/employment, litigation and compliance.

Danaher's Legal transactional function is responsible for vigorously and ethically representing Danaher's strategic transactional interests and reputation while promoting its growth and innovation.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

Primary responsibility for contract negotiation, contract drafting and overseeing and assessing due diligence in transactions.
Providing counsel and legal support to Danaher's Corporate Development team with respect to daytoday M&A activity. This includes advising on confidentiality agreements, transaction structuring, the legal due diligence process, due diligence findings, contract terms, regulatory approval processes, oversight of outside counsel and overall deal tactics and strategy.
Helping educate and train Corporate Development colleagues regarding key legal considerations that arise in performing their roles.
Advising, structuring, and negotiating terms in venture capital and corporate partnership transactions (e.g., stock purchase agreements, shareholders' agreements, consulting agreements and services agreements), as required from time to time.
In collaboration with IP counsels, advising, structuring, and negotiating terms in joint development and commercialization agreements with leading universities and other third parties, as required from time to time.
Reviewing and improving Danaher's processes and standard work for transactions and matter management to drive transparency, accountability, efficiency, and desired results.
Promoting costefficient use of outside counsel in support of strategic transactions.
Building collaborative and productive relationships to effectively manage teams that include both inside and outside counsel.
Staying abreast of legal trends and developments in areas of practice and communicating pertinent and valueadded information to Corporate Develop