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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:
Critical Success Factors:
Education and/or Experience:
Language Skills:
English Fluency Required. Additional Language Skills Are Beneficial.
Office Location:
The position is to be based at Danaher’s headquarters in Washington, D.C.
Travel:
Travel required based on business needs.
Compensation:
Danaher is committed to competitive compensation that typically has key components including base salary, variable annual incentive compensation (based on personal and company performance), and long-term incentive.
The salary range for this role is $285,000-$300,000 . This is the range that we in good faith believe is the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future.
This job is also eligible for bonus/incentive pay.
We offer comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.
Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole discretion, consistent with the law.
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