Overview
Senior Legal Counsel Jobs in Tokyo, Japan at Epiq Counsel
Title: Senior Legal Counsel
Company: Epiq Counsel
Location: Tokyo, Japan
By joining the Epiq Counsel Waitlist Roster of elite legal talent, you will be considered for future in-house engagements aligned with your expertise and preferences. Leverage our network to bridge the gap between your skills and organizations in need of top-tier legal services. Take the next step in your legal career and join a vibrant community of Epiq legal professionals!
Introduction
Epiq Counsel is an innovative legal services talent provider that offers meaningful in-house legal work and flexibility to sophisticated and credentialed lawyers and legal professionals. Our lawyers and legal professionals work on a wide variety of matters for Fortune 500 clients. Epiq works hard to provide our diverse legal talent with challenging work for sophisticated clients that does not require sacrificing flexibility or control. Epiq Counsel takes the time and attention to understand each professionals practice areas, experience, and preferences to ensure they are presented with compelling engagement opportunities with leading law departments across the globe.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide strategic and practical legal support across the Japan business, advising on a broad range of commercial, corporate, regulatory, and operational matters.
- Partner with key corporate functions including Commercial, Finance, Procurement, Supply Chain, HR, Quality, Regulatory Affairs, Compliance, and Medical Affairs.
- Support M&A transactions and post-acquisition integration activities, including harmonisation of policies, contracts, governance processes, and risk management frameworks.
- Advise on product lifecycle matters relating to medical devices and life sciences products, including commercialisation, distribution, marketing, promotional activities, and interactions with healthcare professionals.
- Draft, review, negotiate, and advise on a wide range of commercial agreements, including distribution, supply, procurement, services, licensing, technology, clinical, logistics, and strategic partnership arrangements.
- Identify opportunities to streamline legal and business workflows through improved processes, playbooks, contract templates, training programmes, and self-service tools.
- Manage external counsel and coordinate with regional and global legal teams on cross-border legal matters.
- Support compliance and risk management initiatives, including healthcare compliance, anti-bribery and corruption, data privacy, competition law, and internal investigations where required.
- Deliver pragmatic, business-oriented advice that enables commercial objectives while ensuring compliance with applicable laws and regulations.
Requirements
- Qualified lawyer in Japan or another common law jurisdiction.
- Approximately 10-15 years’ post-qualification experience gained in leading law firms and/or multinational corporations.
- Previous in-house experience within the life sciences, pharmaceutical, biotechnology, healthcare, medical devices, or other highly regulated industries is strongly preferred.
- Demonstrated experience supporting business operations and advising senior stakeholders on complex commercial and corporate matters.
- Experience supporting M&A transactions and post-merger integration projects.
- Strong understanding of regulatory and compliance issues affecting life sciences and medical device businesses in Japan.
- Proven ability to drive process improvement and operational efficiency initiatives within legal or business functions.
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to influence senior leadership.
