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Job title: Corporate Lawyer

• Location: Gentilly
• Remote working (in line with local regulation)

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

Ready to push the limits of what’s possible?

Join Sanofi in one of our corporate functions and you can play a vital part in the performance of our entire business while helping to make an impact on millions around the world.

About Sanofi:

We’re 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. Together, we chase the miracles of science to improve people’s lives.

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)

About you

Education:

• French law degree, Master 2 in Business Law

Expected background:

• Professional experience with at least 2 - 3 years 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?

• Make your work count by supporting a company that brings life-changing treatments to millions — and is committed to doing right by patients, communities, and the planet
• Drive progress from within by helping simplify, scale, and modernize how a global biopharma business delivers smarter, faster, and more sustainably
• Support teams across science, medicine, and operations by building better systems, shaping bold strategies, and enabling innovation at speed
• Make an impact across borders and functions, collaborating with leaders to turn complex challenges into real-world solutions
• Advance your career through stretch roles, cross-functional moves, and development opportunities designed to match your ambition
• Thrive in inclusive, high-performing teams where every role matters and every voice helps shape what’s next

Pursue Progress. Discover Extraordinary

Join Sanofi and step into a new era of science - where your growth can be just as transformative as the work we do. We invest in you to reach further, think faster, and do what’s never-been-done-before. You’ll help push boundaries, challenge convention, and build smarter solutions that reach the communities we serve. Ready to chase the miracles of science and improve people’s lives? Let’s Pursue Progress and Discover Extraordinary – together.

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.

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Pursue progress, discover extraordinary

Better is out there. Better medications, better outcomes, better science. But progress doesn’t happen without people – people from different backgrounds, in different locations, doing different roles, all united by one thing: a desire to make miracles happen. So, let’s be those people.

At Sanofi, we provide equal opportunities to all regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, ability or gender identity.

Watch our ALL IN video and check out our Diversity Equity and Inclusion actions at sanofi.com!