General Counsel

• Provide legal advice and support to Ipsen affiliates across a complex European region covering direct-presence countries and partner markets
• Support Marketing & Sales, Medical, Market Access, Supply Chain and Customer Strategy teams
• Ensure compliance with pharmaceutical law concerning medicine launch, supply, distribution, sale, promotion, research and derogatory access
• Provide first-line legal support for operational and cross-functional projects
• Conduct preliminary legal assessments and prepare summaries for the EMM Legal Director
• Support innovative digital projects and partnerships involving pharmaceutical regulations, GDPR, medical confidentiality, intellectual property, competition and commercial law
• Review key contractual provisions and escalate relevant issues
• Draft, review and validate contracts and amendments with healthcare professionals, healthcare organisations and patient organisations
• Validate commercial policies, terms and conditions, single agreements and related documents
• Maintain template agreements, forms and local contract manuals
• Provide internal training and guidance on contracts, legal matters and data privacy
• Support drafting, review and negotiation of pharmaceutical-industry agreements
• Monitor and analyse healthcare laws, regulations and enforcement activity
• Incorporate legal developments into education, messaging and policy efforts
• Flag high-risk areas and raise business awareness of legal changes
• Conduct legal research and prepare concise briefings
• Collaborate with Group Legal, Business Ethics & Compliance and Intellectual Property functions
• Assist with International Legal and Group Legal projects and participate in team meetings

Legal Counsel – European Mid Sized Markets

• Provide practical, hands-on legal advice on individual and collective employee relationships
• Work closely with HR to implement solutions ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements
• Draft, review, and negotiate employment contracts
• Advise on the employment lifecycle in alignment with French legal requirements and Mistral AI’s global policies
• Advise on collective representation matters, including CSE and associated employee representative bodies
• Collaborate with HR and local counsels to balance local legal requirements with operational efficiency
• Provide guidance on cross-border employment issues, including secondments, remote work, and international mobility
• Monitor and analyze labour law developments across key jurisdictions
• Proactively adapt internal processes to regulatory developments
• Serve as the legal liaison for Mistral’s HR teams
• Collaborate with Legal teams and local external counsels worldwide

Labour Legal Counsel

• Provide corporate legal secretarial support for the group’s companies in collaboration with external legal advisors
• Manage day-to-day corporate legal matters (amendments to articles of association, registered office transfers, etc.)
• Participate in M&A and corporate structuring transactions (mergers, universal transfers of assets, partial contributions of assets, etc.)
• Contribute to drafting corporate documentation (intra-group agreements, transfer pricing documentation, etc.)
• Contribute to drafting signature and authority delegations
• Participate in the negotiation and drafting of commercial contracts (supplier agreements, leases, etc.)
• Manage the group’s insurance matters (updates with the broker, claims reporting, etc.)
• Support customer collections management
• Contribute to process optimization, particularly through the use of artificial intelligence
• Support the growth of Valiuz and its subsidiaries in France and internationally

Legal Counsel Intern

• Support the Group’s legal counsel and privacy officers on legal matters relating to personal data protection
• Contribute to drafting legal opinions on applicable personal data protection legislation
• Participate in reviewing contracts and clauses relating to personal data protection
• Update the record of processing activities
• Participate in developing procedures applicable to mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures
• Support the implementation of personal data protection standards applicable to artificial intelligence
• Contribute to legal monitoring in the areas of data protection, cybersecurity, and health law across all jurisdictions
• Help create awareness and training materials for Sanofi Group legal counsel and privacy officers, in English and French

Data Privacy Legal Counsel Intern

• Participate in establishing, negotiating, monitoring, and renewing the Group's insurance programs
• Manage insurance coverage, including civil liability, industrial all-risks, property damage, construction all-risks, transport, ten-year liability, directors' and officers' liability, and automotive fleet insurance
• Monitor insurance policies in France and internationally throughout their lifecycle
• Contribute to insurance audits related to project refinancing
• Support the Legal Department and Group departments on insurance matters
• Handle claim notifications and monitor files through resolution
• Participate in amicable and judicial expert assessments
• Coordinate with brokers, insurers, experts, and lawyers
• Investigate and monitor pre-litigation and litigation files
• Organize the Group's legal documentation and update databases and department dashboards
• Improve the Legal Department's tools and processes
• Conduct regular legal monitoring in relevant areas
• Deliver legal awareness sessions and training on relevant topics

Insurance and Litigation Counsel

• Lead employee equity plan operations end to end, including BSPCE, BSA, stock options, and future mechanisms
• Coordinate ESOP grants with internal and external stakeholders
• Support employees who receive equity awards
• Manage post-grant activities, including exercises, liquidity/secondary events, departures, international mobility, and changes in status
• Execute these transactions from A to Z, including documentation, project timelines, HR/Finance coordination, and communications to award recipients
• Monitor and update the cap table on a daily basis
• Prepare and maintain corporate documentation and filings related to capital transactions
• Support employees holding options and HR teams, particularly Operations and Talent Acquisition
• Structure, document, and optimize equity processes, notably through standardization, automation, tooling, and AI
• Monitor regulatory developments relating to employee equity plans and capital transactions in France and Europe
• Collaborate daily with Legal, Finance, and People teams across Europe

Equity Legal Counsel

• Support Mistral AI’s GDPR compliance strategy as a close partner and advisor to product and engineering teams
• Manage compliance documentation, including records of processing personal data, data privacy impact assessments, and internal policies
• Answer and manage data subject requests
• Implement GDPR processes and automation
• Manage employee training on privacy topics
• Negotiate data processing agreements with providers and customers
• Monitor privacy regulations and supervisory authority guidance and decisions
• Advise the product team on privacy topics concerning new features
• Answer privacy-related questions from other teams
• Update compliance documentation accordingly
• Identify compliance issues and develop effective strategies and practical solutions

Privacy Legal Counsel

• Monitor legal and regulatory developments and case law
• Monitor operational best practices in the automotive services sector
• Advise members and propose pragmatic solutions to concrete issues
• Regularly inform members about new applicable legislation and regulations, and share best practices via the website, newsletter, and other communication channels
• Prepare and lead meetings for members, particularly social affairs committees
• Support Mobilians employees and/or elected representatives on applicable legal and regulatory matters
• Inform employees and elected representatives through information meetings and legal update notes
• Provide technical support to Mobilians employees at headquarters and in regional offices

Junior Employment Law Counsel

• Advise and support the firm’s clients in managing their individual and collective employment relationships
• Draft employment contracts and amendments
• Support clients in implementing various employment law procedures
• Conduct regular legal and employment law monitoring
• Analyze legislative, regulatory, and case law developments
• Share and disseminate employment law updates among teams, particularly payroll administrators
• Identify client needs and develop employment law advisory assignments
• Participate in working groups and projects aimed at developing the profession
• Help safeguard the practices of the firm and its clients through appropriate, practical legal support
• Occasionally travel for business to the Mont-de-Marsan, Aire-sur-l’Adour, and Hagetmau offices

Legal Counsel, Employment Law

• Draft, review, and approve templates for land rights agreements, including lease promises, easements, and terminations of rural leases for the Group’s solar PV projects
• Advise and support operational teams on the legal aspects of developing and constructing solar PV plants
• Work in particular on environmental and urban planning laws, CRE tender specifications, and feed-in tariff orders related to EDF OA
• Review the legal aspects of projects under development or regulatory review
• Manage and coordinate relationships with notaries for the drafting and execution of final land rights agreements
• Manage situations in which projects are stalled
• Propose, draft, or improve agreement templates used to secure land rights

General Counsel jobs in France