Life Sciences & Biotechnology Commercial Contracts Attorney

Position Details

Wyrick Robbins is seeking an experienced attorney to join its market-leading Life Sciences & Biotechnology industry team. Our Life Sciences & Biotechnology team represents companies across the entire spectrum of life sciences industries. We are actively looking to grow the team and are seeking an attorney with business and transactional experience drafting and negotiating commercial contracts, particularly for pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, CROs, medical device companies, and other life sciences industry participants.

The types of agreements this position would be expected to handle include:

• research and development agreements;
• diagnostic/analytical services agreements;
• material transfer agreements;
• services agreements or master services agreements (R&D, manufacturing, or other services);
• clinical study agreements;
• sponsored research agreements; and
• supply/manufacturing agreements.

As a member of our Licensing & Technology Transactions practice group, which also assists our life sciences clients with structuring and negotiating complex collaborations, licenses, and strategic partnerships, this position would also offer opportunities, depending on experience and interest, to become involved in such transactions.

Our clients for which we service such needs include large multinational biopharmaceutical companies, small to mid-sized public companies, platform technology providers and CROs in the discovery, product development, formulation, and manufacturing sectors, start-ups (including university spin-outs), and other emerging ventures.

NC Bar admission or admission by comity preferred. Outstanding undergraduate and law school academics. Excellent written, analytical and verbal skills required.

About Wyrick Robbins

Wyrick Robbins is a commercial law firm with a focus on growth-oriented businesses and various financial organizations that provide capital to such businesses. Its clients are local, regional, national and global, and range from start-up and early-stage technology companies to established growth companies, both privately owned and publicly held. The firm handles financial and corporate transactions, commercial litigation and other legal needs of these businesses. More than half of the attorneys at the firm are laterals from national and regional law firms.

Wyrick Robbins is consistently top-listed in North Carolina for Biotechnology Law by Best Lawyers in America, and our practice group’s attorneys are regularly recognized by Best Lawyers in America, Intellectual Asset Management, Business North Carolina’s Legal Elite, and North Carolina Super Lawyers.

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