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Sanofi Mexico’s in-house legal team provides expert guidance to the pharmaceutical and vaccine manufacturer’s Mexican operations which include the production of medicines, vaccines, and pharmaceutical products for distribution across its...
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Led by well-known general counsel Karen Linehan, the Sanofi legal team operates in the highly regulated healthcare and pharmaceuticals industry, and maintains an immense amount of legal talent in support...
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Global French pharmaceutical company Sanofi is dedicated to science that is committed to finding solutions to current health challenges, including epidemics and diseases related to population aging and increased longevity....
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With over 79 sites in 36 countries, Sanofi is a powerful player in the global pharmaceutical industry. The company distributes medicines and therapies to over 170 countries, covering vaccines, diabetes,...
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As Sanofi’s products and customers are greatly impacted by changes in the regulatory environment, including demand for further localisation of manufacturing and rapidly developing competition and state procurement legislation, its...
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Present in more than 100 countries around the world and with a workforce of over 100,000 employees, Sanofi is one of the largest pharmaceutical companies globally and currently the leading...
Sanofi is a French global life sciences company committed to improving access to healthcare. Supporting the pharmaceutical, vaccines and consumer healthcare businesses of Sanofi Philippines, the legal team consists of...
| Sanofi Philippines
Sanofi is a French global life sciences company committed to improving access to healthcare. Supporting the pharmaceutical, vaccines and consumer healthcare businesses of Sanofi Philippines, the legal team consists of...
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The legal team at Sanofi’s South Cone operation (based in Buenos Aires but with jurisdiction over Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay) is led by Inés Riobó, who is a member of...
Organised around the three pillars of legal, IP and ethics and business integrity, and overseen by the well-known and highly regarded Karen Linehan, the Sanofi legal department is among the best-resourced legal teams in the world. Overall, the function’s complement is approximately 600 persons globally. Over the past two years the legal team has supported some major acquisitions, including those of Bioverativ and Ablynx, and the finance legal team supported the largest Euro denominated bond issue ever completed by a French corporation, and the fourth largest Eurobond issue in history overall, with an aggregate principal amount of €8bn. The team has also worked on a number of simplification and resource-optimisation projects. ‘We reviewed the legal involvement in contractual activities and worked with the Sanofi global procurement team to revisit the contract lifecycle management, creating and optimised P2P process’, says Linehan. ‘We also redesigned our IP support and implemented an end-to-end solution to optimise the management of law firm billing’. Harnessing technology is clearly at the forefront of the team’s thinking and is seen as a major driver for increased efficiency within the team going forward. ‘With the emergence of new technologies and the tools they provide, I see legal accelerating the focus on high-level expertise matters. Some tasks that are traditionally handled by legal are or will be managed by other teams, outsourced or automated. This is notably the case for most usual contracts, IP portfolio prosecution and maintenance and the management of external providers. Overall, legal teams will benefit from the time this frees up to focus on tasks that provide greater value to the business, and increase their business and commercial expertise’. Summing up, Linehan makes it clear just how seriously the team takes its work, and how mindful it is of its duties in the sensitive healthcare sector: ‘In a healthcare company, our responsibility as lawyers is broader than just the individual file we are working on. We know that what we do can contribute to changing a person’s life. We could have worked in any industry and in many companies, but we choose to work at Sanofi because it is uniquely positioned as a diversified healthcare company and we are motivated every day to help others in their life journey’.
