Job Description

Taylor Wessing
Taylor Wessing is a global law firm that serves the world's most innovative people and businesses. Deeply embedded within our sectors, we work closely together with our clients to crack complex problems, enabling ideas and aspirations to thrive. Together we challenge expectation and create extraordinary results. By shaping the conversation in our sectors, we enable our clients to unlock growth, protect innovation and accelerate ambition.
With 1200+ lawyers, 300+ partners, 28 offices and 17 jurisdictions we are looking to expand our IP, Regulatory and Digital team, with the addition of a Patents Commercialisation Knowledge Lawyer.
The opportunity for you
The firm goes to market via its sectors. Life sciences is a key commercial sector focus, alongside technology. The firm's 90 lawyers in its burgeoning life sciences sector group work with ambitious, innovative clients to build their businesses globally across pharma, biotechnology, medical devices, and digital health.
Key responsibilities

• To create a set of life sciences licensing and collaboration precedent documents and a collection of related example documents and clauses for the Patents Commercialisation team. Drafting these documents requires a good working knowledge of IP and specifically patents and know-how, as well as an understanding of the structures that are typical in life sciences collaboration transactions.
• This will involve taking an array of sample documents on which the team have worked and working them up into precedents in house style with definitions and layout which is consistent across the documents.
• It will also involve distilling the team's knowledge into annotations to reflect market practice.
• To standardise an existing extensive set of non-licensing life sciences precedents.
• This will require extensive liaison with the Patents Commercialisation fee earning team and gathering input from others around the firm, including data protection, competition law, trademarks and tax specialists.
• Key documents forming part of this project include agreements for collaborative R&D, master services agreements, laboratory, clinical and other services, clinical trials, product manufacturing and supply, distribution and marketing, licensing, and marketing, as well as distribution of medical devices and pharmaceuticals.
• This is a role focused on contract drafting and annotation - aspects such as general know-how and awareness, answering general fee earner queries, content marketing, and training will be dealt with by the lawyers in the team.
• Responsibilities will however include providing training on new law affecting the document suite and on the documents themselves, and potentially similar outward facing training.

Knowledge, skills and experience

• Excellent academics.
• A qualified solicitor with 6+PQE and relevant legal experience gained from a top tier UK or international practice.
• Strong analytical and technical skills, so as to gain the confidence of partners and other senior fee earners quickly and to be able to draw on practical experience to deliver practical solutions.
• Experience in a well-regarded life sciences team.
• IP and life sciences background and non-contentious commercial deal experience.
• Awareness of data privacy and competition law issues.
• Experience in the non-contentious life sciences sector, covering a range of clients within the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medtech industries.
• Proven experience of advising, drafting, and reviewing contracts and agreements.
• Experience of complex licensing deals.
• Commercial arrangements for life sciences companies.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Excellent organisational skills.
• Ability to effectively manage own workload and prioritise.
• A confident and personable manner, with an ability to work comfortably in a team environment.

Benefits
Here are a select few benefits that Taylor Wessing offer;

• Hybrid working (Offering the opportunity to work remotely, while maintaining a social boundary by working from our award-winning offices for 3 days a week)
• Holiday (Our basic annual holiday entitlement starts at 25 days, with a further discretionary day of paid leave in December. You may also purchase up to five extra days each year (pro rata).
• Enhanced Maternity and Paternity leave (After one-year service, you are entitled to up to 26 weeks leave full pay if you or your partner give birth or adopt a child).

Along with these there are many more benefits we offer, with the addition of a comprehensive flexible benefits package available.
Our culture
Nurturing a diverse, inclusive culture allows all of our talent to flourish, sparks creativity and powers innovation. We continue to build a team that exemplifies inclusivity and reflects the firm's core values: creative, excellence, integrity, responsible, respect and team. We value and celebrate the differences in who we are, what we have experienced and how we think, so all candidates will be treated fairly regardless of age, caring responsibilities, disability, gender identity, marital status, neurodiversity, pregnancy, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation and socio-economic background.
The way we work
At Taylor Wessing, we never settle for average. We're creative thinkers, problem solvers and continuous learners who excel at what we do and believe our best work is still ahead of us. We are a firm that's large enough for you to achieve your ambitions, but connected enough to be a true community.

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