Company: SNY
Filing Date: 2025-02-13
Form Type: 20-F
Source: 0001121404-25-000010
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Company: Sanofi
Filing Date: 2025-02-13
Form: 20-F
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 are three types of shareholders’ meetings: ordinary, extraordinary and special. Ordinary general meetings of shareholders are required for matters such as: • electing, replacing and removing Directors; • appointing independent auditors; • approving the annual financial statements; • declaring dividends or authorizing dividends to be paid in shares, provided the Articles of Association contain a provision to that effect; and • approving share repurchase programs. Extraordinary general meetings of shareholders are required for approval of matters such as amendments to our Articles of Association, including any amendment required in connection with extraordinary corporate actions. Extraordinary corporate actions include: • changing our Company’s name or corporate purpose; • increasing or decreasing our share capital; • creating a new class of equity securities; • authorizing the issuance of: – shares giving access to our share capital or giving the right to receive debt instruments, or – other securities giving access to our share capital; • establishing any other rights to equity securities; • selling or transferring substantially all of our assets; and • the voluntary liquidation of our Company. Special meetings of shareholders of a certain category of shares or shares with certain specific rights (such as shares with double voting rights) are required for any modification of the rights derived from that category of shares. The resolutions of the shareholders’ general meeting affecting these rights are effective only after approval by the relevant special meeting.

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| ITEM 10. Additional Information |

Annual ordinary meetings The French Commercial Code requires the Board of Directors to convene an annual ordinary general shareholders’ meeting to approve the annual financial statements. This meeting must be held within six months of the end of each fiscal year. The Board of Directors may also convene an ordinary or extraordinary general shareholders’ meeting upon proper notice at any time during the year. If the Board of Directors fails to convene a shareholders’ meeting, our independent auditors may call the meeting. In case of bankruptcy, the liquidator or court-appointed agent may also call a shareholders’ meeting in some instances. In addition, any of the following may request the court to appoint an agent for the purpose of calling a shareholders’ meeting: • one or several shareholders holding at least 5% of our share capital; • duly qualified associations of shareholders who have held their shares in registered form for at least two years and who together hold at least 1% of our voting rights; • the works council in cases of urgency; or • any interested party in cases of urgency. Under our Articles