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Back Bay Life Science Advisors is a multiyear top-ranked boutique consultancy offering a unique mix of life science consulting and investment banking—an intersection that appears to be proving particularly lucrative, judging by the firm’s recent growth rates. Back Bay’s company culture is dedicated to long-term support for both for client relationships and career development. “The firm continues to outpace its peers in size and impressively ‘punches above its weight’ with respect to clients and impact,” is the overall sentiment. &...
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An established boutique with a global footprint in a booming market, Back Bay seems well set for continued growth in the immediate to mid-term future. In addition to growth in North America, recent high points include expansion throughout Europe—all of which offers potential consultants the chance to play a role in shaping the future of medicine and treatments from emerging to mid-size and large public companies around the world.
Day to day, the firm’s size enables a high degree of transparency and responsiveness from senior leaders; this is a firm where every insider has the opportunity to be heard. While that scale sometimes translates to a lack of internal processes and some long working hours during crunch periods, quality of life seems to be very much ...
About the Company
Back Bay Life Science Advisors provides life science strategy and investment banking to pharma, biotech, medtech, and healthtech companies around the globe. Back Bay collaborates with investors, banks, academia, and government to advance treatments in human care.
From its offices in Boston, Back Bay teams provide consulting services to those on the forefront of the ever-evolving field of life sciences.
Back Bay works with companies of all sizes across the US and global life science markets, across every stage, sector, geography and therapeutic area. Back Bay strategy and banking teams guide companies on technology and drug development, from planning and initial concept to product commercialization, franchising and licensing, M&A, divestiture, and more.
With headquarters in Bost...
Employee Reviews
- “Back Bay is uniquely positioned to be the translator between the business and science elements of a successful Life Sciences company strategy. Having both the financial and scientific domain expertise allows us to better address the specific diligence questions on both “sides of the house’’ and position companies best for their growth.”
- “Investing in interpersonal relationships is firmly rooted in Back Bay's culture, which takes the form of frequent office-wide outings, office lun...
Getting Hired Here
- “Generally, there is an initial first round interview over the phone, or potentially on-campus if we are doing on-campus recruiting at a particular school. That initial interview includes a discussion around the resume and interest in the firm and also includes a market sizing exercise and time for questions at the end.
- Within about a week, we try to make a decision as to whether we want to bring that candidate in for final rounds to meet more of the team. Given we are a boutique...
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