The VP & Senior Counsel, Corporate Development works with the Chief Legal Officer and the UNC Health Legal Department team to support UNC Health’s corporate development function, with a focus on providing expert legal guidance and support for strategic combinations and partnerships, acquisitions, joint ventures, and strategic investments.

• Provide legal support in mergers and acquisitions, partnership development, market and financial analysis, and strategic investments. Advise and provide legal support on strategic transactions, including negotiating and drafting non-disclosure agreements, drafting letters of intent, preparing contracts and agreements with advisors and financial consultants, and drafting various transaction documents and definitive agreements involving asset purchases, member substitutions, joint ventures, and operating agreements.
• Conduct, oversee, and coordinate due diligence on assigned transactions and deals and provide support to UNC Health attorneys who are advising on other transactions; analyze due diligence reports and findings to evaluate and assess legal risks and develop strategies to mitigate identified risks.
• Collaborate with UNC Health teammates, outside counsel, and other experts in the review and evaluation of significant matters involving transactions, including regulatory and compliance issues; tax question; employment and employee benefits matters; intellectual property; IT security and privacy issue; and other matters.
• Develop, write, and present presentations, reports, memos, and other content that describes strategic transactions and related legal, regulatory, and diligence issues in clear terms; explains the rationale for particular transactions and deals; and provides actionable advice and recommendations for decision-makers.
• Engage and supervise outside counsel in accordance with UNC Health’s policies and practices.
• Work with UNC Health Legal Department teammates, the Corporate Development team, and other professionals across the organization to plan and execute integrations.
• Build strong and respectful relationships with stakeholders and department colleagues to promote collaboration across UNC Health and with consultants and advisors to achieve goals and outcomes established by UNC Health.
• Serve as a key member of the Corporate Development team.

Education Requirements:

• Bachelor’s and Juris Doctor degree required.

Licensure/Certification Requirements

• Must be licensed to practice law in North Carolina at the time of employment, or be able to become licensed no later than one (1) year after becoming employed by UNC Health.

Professional Experience Requirements

• Requires twelve (12) years of progressively responsible experience in the legal and healthcare field, with ten (10) years of experience as lead counsel on significant M&A and other transactional matters. In-house experience advising corporate development leaders strongly preferred.

Knowledge/Skills/and Abilities Requirements

• Clear and honest communication with leaders, requiring confidence, substantive knowledge, and poise.
• Strong analytical abilities, intelligence, and intellect.
• Ability to think creatively about solutions requiring multiple levels of analysis and understanding.
• Ability to provide solid, well-informed, and well-reasoned legal analysis and advice, appropriate to the circumstances and taking business context into account.
• Ability to convey complex topics in understandable and accessible way, maintaining high-level focus and enabling clear communication between business and legal teams.
• Ability to identify connections among disparate concepts and substantive areas to strategically solve problems and address issues.
• Dedication and commitment to successfully completing the identified objectives.