A former big law attorney and current adjunct professor at Columbia Law School has been hired as general counsel of biopharmaceutical company Life Biosciences, which raised $50 million earlier this year—doubling its initial financing target.  

Amit Shashank

Amit Shashank, a lecturer at Columbia who had a stint as a corporate attorney at Shearman & Sterling, joins Boston-based Life Biosciences LLC after having most recently served as executive vice president, GC and secretary of global design and engineering company Aricent.