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Annual General Meeting of May 3, 2022
Paris, May 3, 2022. The Combined General Shareholders Meeting of Sanofi was held on May 3, 2022 at Paris Expo Porte de Versailles,
under the chairmanship of Serge Weinberg. All resolutions submitted to the vote were adopted by the shareholders.
The General Meeting approved the individual
Company and consolidated financial statements for the fiscal year 2021. The General Meeting decided on the distribution of an ordinary annual dividend of 3.33 per share and an additional
dividend in kind in the form of an allocation of EUROAPI shares, at a ratio of one (1) EUROAPI share per twenty-three (23) Sanofi shares held. The payment of the dividend, including both the cash dividend and the dividend in kind, will be
made on May 10, 2022.
The General Meeting also renewed Paul Hudson, Christophe Babule, Patrick Kron and Gilles Schnepp as Directors, and approved the
appointment of Carole Ferrand, Emile Voest and Antoine Yver.
On the proposal of the Nomination, Governance and CSR Committee, Carole Ferrand has been appointed as
member of the Audit Committee, Barbara Lavernos as member of the Nomination, Governance and CSR Committee, Wolfgang Laux as member of the Compensation Committee, and Emile Voest and Antoine Yver as members of the Scientific Committee.
Following the General Meeting, the Board of Directors is comprised of 16 members, of whom six are women and two are Directors representing employees. The Board of
Directors remains for a large majority comprised of Independent Directors.
The voting results and the videocast of the Annual General Meeting are available on:
We are an innovative global healthcare company, driven by one purpose: we chase the miracles of science to improve people s lives. Our team, across some 100
countries, is dedicated to transforming the practice of medicine by working to turn the impossible into the possible. We provide potentially life-changing treatment options and life-saving vaccine protection to millions of people globally, while
putting sustainability and social responsibility at the center of our ambitions.
Sanofi is listed on EURONEXT: SAN and NASDAQ: SNY
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