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シニアリーガルカウンセル / Senior Legal Counsel - Japan

Minato City, Tokyo, jp💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-11 → 2026-09-26

Core

Provide strategic commercial legal advice and risk-based solutions to support AbbVie's core businesses and enterprise-wide initiatives in Japan.

Role type

Senior in-house legal counsel (life sciences)

Builds

Strategic legal solutions for core business challenges, complex commercial agreements, and global projects

Domain

Life sciences / Healthcare / Japanese regulatory environment

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | research | client delivery | infrastructure | physical/clinical work

Required skills

Japanese law expertise, commercial contract negotiation, corporate law, intellectual property management, anti-bribery compliance, data protection, competition law

Preferred skills

Life science industry experience, international organization in-house experience, reputable law firm background

Technologies

Microsoft Office (Outlook, PowerPoint, Excel, Word, SharePoint)

Responsibilities

Serve as lead counsel for strategic priority areas and key brand teams; Provide advice to senior management on Japanese laws regarding promotion, patient support, market access, and launch strategies; Draft, review, and negotiate complex commercial and corporate agreements; Manage outside counsel and project budgets for specific technical matters; Drive workstreams in novel areas of law or business transactions

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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