Healthcare Attorney Advisor to Healthcare VC Fund

Healthcare Shares Overview Healthcare Shares is a healthcare venture fund investing broadly in social-impact healthcare startups. Our mission is to deploy capital into companies that expand access, improve outcomes, reduce total-cost-of-care, and strengthen the overall healthcare ecosystem. We are expanding our Advisory Board to include seasoned healthcare attorneys who can provide legal, regulatory, transactional, and strategic insight throughout the investment process. Role Overview As a Healthcare Attorney Advisor , you will support our investment diligence and portfolio strategy by offering legal perspective on early-stage healthcare companies, regulatory exposure, compliance readiness, intellectual property positioning, and transaction structures. Your expertise will help ensure that investment decisions reflect real-world regulatory feasibility, manageable legal risk, sound governance, and long-term scalability. Healthcare Attorney Advisors help founders and the investment team anticipate regulatory challenges, strengthen compliance frameworks, and validate whether a company can operate responsibly and sustainably in the healthcare ecosystem. Core Responsibilities • Support investment diligence by evaluating legal structures, regulatory compliance, licensing requirements, data-privacy implications, reimbursement risk, and exposure under federal and state healthcare laws. • Analyze intellectual property including patents, licensing arrangements, freedom-to-operate considerations, and IP scalability for investor protection. • Assess regulatory pathways relevant to digital health, AI applications, telehealth, medical devices, diagnostics, clinical services, and value-based care models. • Evaluate corporate governance, deal structures, cap tables, and founder agreements to identify risks related to future fundraising, investor rights, or governance scalability. • Advise on risk-management frameworks , including fraud-waste-abuse issues, Stark/Anti-Kickback compliance, HIPAA/HITECH data-security requirements, contractual liabilities, and regulatory enforcement risk. • Provide strategic support to portfolio companies on commercial contracting, compliance build-out, partnership agreements, data-use strategies, and legal operations scaling. • Collaborate with multidisciplinary advisory members —clinicians, operators, technologists, and financial experts—to deliver integrated investment recommendations. • Monitor emerging legal trends across AI governance, digital health regulation, privacy, FDA policy, reimbursement law, and healthcare transactions. Ideal Qualifications • JD with experience in healthcare law, venture capital, corporate transactions, digital health, regulatory compliance, or healthcare innovation strategy. • Strong familiarity with HIPAA, licensing laws, telehealth regulations, FDA pathways, reimbursement frameworks, and data-governance requirements. • Experience reviewing cap tables, deal documents, commercial agreements, and early-stage governance structures. • Ability to translate legal and regulatory considerations into clear investment implications and operational guidance. • Commitment to responsible innovation and social-impact healthcare transformation. Why Join the Advisory Board • Influence the legal strategy and regulatory thinking shaping the next generation of healthcare innovation. • Collaborate with investors, clinicians, technologists, and operators driving socially impactful investment decisions. • Flexible, remote engagement allowing participation alongside your existing practice or workload. • Carried interest participation tied to long-term fund performance. • Direct engagement with founders building digital health platforms, AI tools, clinical services, and healthcare infrastructure solutions. Engagement Structure & Benefits • Eligibility for carried interest and advisor compensation. • Participation in diligence cycles, legal-risk reviews, and portfolio support. • Remote, part-time involvement based on expertise and availability. • Access to mission-driven startups improving healthcare quality, access, economics, and innovation. Company Website https://www.healthcareshares.com/ Company Address 702 Houston Street Fort Worth, TX 76102