Corporate Lawyer

Job title

Corporate Lawyer

Location: Gentilly

About The Job

As a Corporate Lawyer, ensure that the Sanofi legal entity structure is kept in accordance to business needs and legal requirements; ensure appropriate corporate governance standards; ensure timely implementation of complex French company/corporate law restructuring transactions, multi-jurisdiction restructuring transactions and support of M&A transactions.

Key Responsibilities

• Analyzing, advising on, drafting documentation on complex French company/corporate law restructuring transactions and multi-jurisdiction restructuring transactions
• Providing advice and information on company/corporate law and governance questions
• Providing advice, setting up, managing of legal entities with all sorts of legal forms, Joint Ventures, associations, etc.
• Supporting M&A activities and transactions
• Coordinating legal advice/documents with all concerned stakeholders from all concerned functions at global and local level
• Supervising/managing company/corporate legal work (annual compliance, standard transactions)

Education

About you

• French law degree, Master 2 in Business Law

Expected Background

• Professional experience with at least 2 - 3 years in company/corporate law, legal restructuring
• Experience in company/corporate law, corporate governance, legal restructuring
• Good understanding of accounting, tax, treasury topics related to legal restructuring transactions
• Good business sense and acumen

Key Skills

• Very good communication skills especially in a multi-cultural, global, and complex matrix environment
• Strong team spirit, interpersonal and networking skills
• Ability to synthesize complex information
• Thoughtful risk-taking approach/mindset
• Solution-oriented
• Can operate in ambiguous and undefined areas and bring clarity and direction
• Can handle and easily bounce back from setbacks, stays focused and composed in stressful situations, maintains a positive attitude during troubling circumstances
• High energy, tenacity and patience
• Ability to work with Office 365 environment and with other digital tools and databases
• Fluency in French and English is mandatory

Why join us

We are an R&D-driven, AI-powered biopharma company committed to improving people’s lives and delivering compelling growth. Our deep understanding of the immune system and innovative pipeline enables us to invent medicines and vaccines that treat and protect millions of people around the world.

Equal Opportunity

At Sanofi, we provide equal opportunities to all regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.