Senior Legal Counsel Venture Fund

**The Position**:
Are you looking for a new challenge in a growing international environment and making a true difference at the German headquarters of a growing top20-pharmaceutical business? Are you seeking to leverage your experience in venture capital and help us pursue our ambitions? Are you interested in joining our 300+ Legal & Compliance professionals globally and join Corporate Legal & Compliance?
If so, you now have the opportunity to become Senior Legal Counsel to the Corporate Venture Fund at Boehringer Ingelheim (BIVF).

**Tasks & responsibilities**:

- As Senior Legal Counsel BIVF you will provide proactive strategic legal advice to BIVF’s leadership and investment managers, and you will implement BIVF’s new investments by drafting, negotiating, and executing the respective investment documentation.
- You will review and negotiate legal documentation regarding financing rounds for portfolio companies and provide legal advice and implementation support on exit strategies.
- You will advise and support BIVF investment managers in their role as directors of portfolio companies, partner closely with BIVF's Investment Committee and collaborate seamlessly with BIVF's finance professionals.
- As a member of the global BIVF team of investment managers, finance, and legal professionals you enjoy collaborating across borders. You will select and manage outside counsel for investments, financing rounds and exits.
- You will guide the BIVF on corporate governance, corporate law and intercompany agreement matters and advise on applicable legal, regulatory and compliance developments.
- Furthermore, you will organize and supervise corporate housekeeping in relation to BIVF's portfolio companies.
- As a key strategic partner, you will actively contribute to BIVF leadership and their key initiatives. Your insights and expertise will be integral to the relevant management teams.
- You will work with a team of lawyers from the R/OPUs in relevant matters on a global scale and represent BIVF in selected venture capital industry or attorney associations.

**Requirements**:

- Qualified Attorney with admission to the bar (2nd State Examination or equivalent), several years relevant professional experience in an external law firm and/or as inhouse lawyer with international exposure in daily business
- Strong expertise in Venture Capital (VC), M&A as well as corporate law
- Adequate level of strategic and business understanding, preferably in the pharma, biotech or VC industry, with the ability to provide strategic legal advice in the highly dynamic area of corporate VC investments
- Experienced legal business partner, well-versed in the daily handling of a broad range of legal matters relevant to the area of VC, such as the handling and negotiation of investment documentation
- Project leadership competencies to lead cross-functional initiatives as well as strategic and solution-oriented mindset
- Strong communication skills are key, as well as the capability of steering and/or leading legal matters in cross-functional and/or international settings

**Ready to contact us?**:
**Recruitment process**:
Step 2: Virtual meeting in the period from beginning till mid of August
Step 3: On-site interviews beginning end of August