Sabine Forné

Legal Manager EMEA, for both Healthcare and LifeSciences businesses. Member of the Board of Directors. Work in French, English, German and Spanish.

¤ Identified and resolved any business legal issue of the Group (incl. 18 international subsidiaries) ¤ Provided legal expertise, validated documents and drew up standard contracts (research, consultancy, purchase, distributorship agreements..) ¤ Kept my clients informed on legislations and regulations changes, conducted information trainings ¤ Settled contentious business issues, from negotiations to pleading before the jurisdictions ¤ Project leader for the computerisation of the Group’s contracts

¤ Analysed financial documents (solvency, guarantees, risks) and gave credit advice ¤ Participated in negotiations, created amortization schedules and wrote up contractual documents, remitted funds, ensured the follow-up (correspondence, debt recovery) ¤ Undertook Departmental restructuring by drawing up referential documents e.g. standard contracts

¤ Missions: STRASBOURG (Law firm, Crédit Mutuel Bank, Council of Europe), BERLIN (Otis GmbH), BRUSSELS (AMP, Belgium’s leading press distributor of the Lagardère Group) ¤ Aim: work on a rich diversity of issues within different legal systems & develop a capacity to adapt easily to new and multicultural work environments ¤ Duration: 12 months

¤ Thesis subject: Corporate Social Responsibility ¤ Internship served at EURIS, a CRM (Customer Relationship Management) Software Editor ¤ Study placement in Asia: Lectures at the Management Development Institute (India), Conferences on Doing business in China & Visits of companies (China)

Focus on: air and water pollution, pesticides and organic micropollutants, food safety, environmental regulations..