Description:
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Position Base: Oakland
Location: UCOP - Franklin Building
UC Office of The President
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Department Overview:
UC Legal - Office of the General Counsel (UCL) provides legal services to the university, including representation, advice, research and training. We also provide legal opinions to the Board of Regents, administration, faculty, staff and others acting on the university's behalf. We report jointly to the Board of Regents and the President.
Position Summary:
Reporting to the Managing Counsel, Health Affairs, Privacy & Data Protection Law, the Senior Principal Counsel - Health Transactions advises and provides primary legal support to UC Health, Office of the President, Faculty Senate, and the University's medical centers, community hospitals and health sciences schools on complex and high impact healthcare business transactions. Work includes advising and counseling on mergers, acquisitions, dispositions, joint ventures, and other affiliations with healthcare facilities, physician organizations and other providers as well as managed care entities; drafting and negotiating related agreements and corporate documents; and advising and counseling on associated legal and regulatory issues including fraud and abuse, antitrust, real estate, governance, and tax laws, as well as UC policies pertaining to healthcare transactions. Represents the Office of General Counsel before leadership on matters relating to healthcare transactions. The Senior Principal Counsel - Health Transactions should be a recognized expert and thought leader in health care transactions; acts independently and with little or no supervision and provides the highest-level strategic legal and strategic advice to C-suite and other senior executives at UC Health and UC medical centers concerning healthcare business transactions, fraud and abuse, antitrust, real estate, governance, and tax laws; identifies threats and opportunities; develops creative solutions regarding such threats and opportunities; initiates, manages and leads long-term projects of key significance to the University in these areas; streamlines and improves business policies, practices and processes in these areas; and an approachable adviser, and a strong relationship builder who thrives in a challenging environment and is clearly aligned with the University's and UC Legal's values.
Responsibilities:
70% Core Legal and Client Service
- Establishes effective relationships with key internal and external constituencies.
- Recognizes strategic needs of organization and proactively builds relationships with appropriate stakeholders to ensure successful outcomes.
- Provides highest-level strategic leadership and counsel on health care transactions, including but not limited to mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, and other business arrangements with healthcare facilities, physician organizations, and other providers as well as managed care entities. This includes independently initiating, managing, and completing long-term projects, anticipating areas of risk, concern, and/or liability, proposing fully-developed solutions that anticipate challenges, and taking full accountability for recommendations and decisions.
- Serves as nationwide, recognized expert within the University in all issues related to healthcare business transactions.
- Keeps informed on changing legislation and case law developments affecting overall operations of the University as they relate to health care transactions.
- Directly negotiates matters on behalf of The Regents.
- May act as a liaison with outside counsel, and/or provide strategic support and expertise on litigation matters in areas of expertise.
- Develops objectives and ensures service according to established priorities.
- Represent institutional concerns persuasively to internal and external parties.
- A trusted partner with senior management and a diverse spectrum of clients.
- Independently advises senior leadership in UC Health and the medical centers on critical healthcare business transactions.
- Independently identifies opportunities to collaborate to achieve solutions on the most complex legal issues in area of specialty, providing strategic direction with high level stakeholders such as the medical center CEOs, and senior administrators at Office of the President and/or across UC locations.
- Streamlines and improves business processes, policies or practices, including identifying threats and opportunities of healthcare business transactions and providing training and education to executive leadership and develop practical tools to ensure compliance.
- Identifies and frames systemic legal issues, and formulates and proposes strategic approaches to address them which can have broad impact across the UC system.
- Elevates and strengthens UC's and UC Legal's reputation and visibility by serving as an ambassador for national, international, and/or legislative matters.
- Works with colleagues at the Office of the President or campus/medical center locations to develop and modify practices and procedures to conform with changing legal requirements.
- Recognizes strategic needs of organization and proactively builds relationships with appropriate stakeholders to ensure successful outcomes.
- Provides guidance to attorneys interested in field of expertise.
- As a recognized expert, participates on external committees to provide input on issues that affect state and/or federal legislative developments.
- Develops objectives and ensures service according to established priorities.
- Ensures accurate record keeping in compliance with UC Legal data quality protocols.
- Supports the UC Legal Health Affairs, Privacy & Data Protection Law Group's coordination efforts to facilitate more efficient, effective, and consistent delivery of health law services system-wide.
- Typically manages outside counsel budget for area of specialty.
- Prepares cost/benefit proposals concerning areas of work to perform in-house versus payment for an outside firm.
- Complies with delegations of authority for committing University funds.
- Appropriately delegates work to maximize efficiency of University resources and provide opportunities for growth of the legal staff.
- Provides clear expectations and mentors legal support staff to establish a strong commitment to teamwork and to meet expected levels of productivity and accuracy.
Required Qualifications:
- Minimum of 10 years of progressively responsible experience advising clients on high-level and complex health care transaction matters. Experience gained in a law firm, or in-house counsel for an academic institution, corporation or other entity.
- Significant experience advising university, medical center or physician executives on sophisticated and often highly complex health care transactions with minimal preparation time.
- Requires health law expertise including a sufficient understanding of applicable laws, industry practices, and enforcement trends to identify, assess, mitigate and resolve legal risks associated with Medical Center and Medical School activities, or a willingness to develop such expertise.
- Expert abilities in collaboration, facilitation, and strategic and creative thinking. A proven team player with a positive attitude and strong interpersonal communication skills.
- In-depth understanding of highly complex legal issues and ability to foresee implications of different approaches or actions, even when ambiguous or hidden.
- Proven ability to identify, explain, and balance business and legal risks.
- Outstanding interpersonal communication skills, including proven ability to actively listen, negotiate, persuade and educate.
- Proven skills to gain trust and build credibility with a broad group