Health Law Associate (M&A/Regulatory)

An Am Law 100 firm is seeking a mid-level associate to join its Health Law practice, with the role open across Washington, DC, New York, or Los Angeles. The practice serves a broad range of health care clients — including providers, payors, pharmacy benefit managers and administrators, manufacturers, distributors, and suppliers — as well as health care industry investors.

The associate will support complex health care transactions, regulatory counseling, and contracting matters, and will collaborate with senior attorneys and cross-disciplinary teams across offices. The ideal candidate is comfortable managing process-driven workstreams, contributing to transaction execution, and supporting regulatory analysis.

The role offers exposure to health care M&A, high-volume PBM, managed care, pharmacy, and provider matters, with direct client-facing transactional and regulatory work. In-office presence is required approximately 60% of the time per the firm's published guidelines.

• JD or LLM from an ABA-accredited law school
• Admitted or eligible for admission in DC, New York, or California
• At least 3 years of relevant health care law experience, including a focus on health care M&A, regulatory counseling, contracting, or a combination
• Experience with transactional matters: due diligence, document review, drafting principal and ancillary transaction documents, regulatory issue-spotting
• Experience drafting, reviewing, and negotiating health care industry contracts (provider, pharmacy, managed care, PBM, vendor, service, or other commercial agreements)
• Familiarity with health care regulatory issues affecting PBM, managed care, provider, or pharmacy clients, or ability to quickly develop fluency in new regulatory areas
• Strong written and oral communication skills
• Professionalism, organization, attention to detail, and ability to prioritize and meet deadlines