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About the Role

Serve as a lawyer on the Global Corporate Litigation & Investigations team, advising on and managing active Company litigation, government investigations, internal investigations, and prelitigation matters with a focus on international matters.

Responsibilities

• Serve as lawyer on the Global Corporate Litigation & Investigations team, independently managing litigation, investigations and prelitigation matters and providing guidance to other attorneys on the team regarding similar matters.
• Maintain knowledge of relevant and developing case law, industry developments, regulatory issues, and external dynamics in furtherance of Gilead’s objectives.
• Proactively identify, analyze, and navigate potential legal issues and risk, and provide practical, risk‑balanced advice in the pre‑litigation context.
• Lead and manage complex litigation and arbitration matters, including case strategy, day-to-day decision-making, and tasks associated with case management and discovery.
• Review correspondence, arguments, memos, and briefs in support of litigation, arbitration, investigations and other adversarial proceedings.
• Assist in the preparation of comprehensive internal and external updates of litigation, investigation, and other potential risks.
• Manage government investigations from inception through resolution, coordinating strategy and execution across internal stakeholders and outside counsel.
• Conduct internal investigations to completion, including issue scoping, factual investigation, root cause analyses and recommendations for remedial action.
• Effectively collaborate with other functions, leaders, and teams within Gilead.
• Define, direct and conscientiously manage outside counsel.

Requirements

• Extensive legal experience supporting clients preferably at a multinational company and/or a reputable, highly rated law firm, or a combination of both.
• Extensive experience with complex and high-profile litigation, investigations and related life sciences issues.
• Strong, broad, and complex litigation experience.
• Investigation experience that ranges from internal investigations and government and agency requests and actions.
• Extensive experience conducting internal investigations independently from initiation to completion.
• Ability to exercise judgment and independently determine and take appropriate action.
• Ability to manage workload priorities in a matrixed environment.
• Experience handling multiple projects in a fast-paced environment and performing successfully in cross-functional teams.
• Able to independently handle complex matters with minimal supervision and an understanding of when to elevate issues to senior management for awareness or decision-making.
• Proven judgment in working through complex issues, including those with significant strategic risk to the company.
• Demonstrated excellent interpersonal, strategic thinking, written communication, presentation skills, and organizational skills.
• Consistent demonstration of Gilead’s core values: Teamwork, Accountability, Inclusion, Excellence, and Integrity.

Skills

• Legal expertise
• Managing complex litigation matters
• International arbitrations
• Managing government investigations
• Conducting internal investigations
• Strategic thinking
• Written communication
• Presentation skills
• Organizational skills

Location

• UK
• London

Work Type

• Flexible working
• Remote
• Onsite

Experience Level

• Associate General Counsel
• Senior Director

Education Level

• Licensed to practice law in European Union and United Kingdom

About the Company

• For more than 35 years, Gilead has tackled diseases such as HIV, viral hepatitis, COVID-19 and cancer – working relentlessly to develop therapies that help improve lives and to ensure access to these therapies across the globe.
• Gilead fights against the world's biggest health challenges, and our mission requires collaboration, determination and a relentless drive to make a difference.
• Every member of Gilead’s team plays a critical role in the discovery and development of life-changing scientific innovations.
• Gilead believes every employee deserves a great leader.
• People Leaders are the cornerstone to the employee experience at Gilead and Kite.
• As a people leader now or in the future, you are the key driver in evolving our culture and creating an environment where every employee feels included, developed and empowered to fulfil their aspirations.
• Join Gilead and help create possible, together.

Equal Opportunity

• It is the policy of Gilead Sciences, Inc. and its subsidiaries and affiliates (collectively "Gilead" or the "Company") to recruit select and employ the most qualified persons available for positions throughout the Company.
• Except if otherwise provided by applicable law, all employment actions relating to issues such as compensation, benefits, transfers, layoffs, returns from layoffs, company-sponsored training, education assistance, social and recreational programs are administered on a non-discriminatory basis (i.e. without regard to protected characteristics or prohibited grounds, which may include an individual’s gender, race, color, national origin, ancestry, religion, creed, physical or mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, medical condition, veteran status, and age, unless such protection is prohibited by federal, state, municipal, provincial, local or other applicable laws).
• Gilead also prohibits discrimination based on any other characteristics protected by applicable laws.