Company: SNY
Filing Date: 2025-02-13
Form Type: 20-F
Source: 0001121404-25-000010
Chunk: 305

Company: Sanofi
Filing Date: 2025-02-13
Form: 20-F
Chunk 305
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 to repurchase up to €18,912,535,950 of its own shares for a period of eighteen months (i.e. through November 25, 2024) by the Annual Shareholders’ Meeting held on May 25, 2023. Sanofi was subsequently authorized to repurchase up to €18,971,999,400 of its own shares for a period of eighteen months (i.e. through October 30, 2025) by the Annual Shareholders’ Meeting held on April 30, 2024. (c) Millions of euros. For more information see “Exhibit 2.2. "Description of securities registered under section 12 of the Exchange Act." of this annual report”. Item 16F. Change in Registrant’s Certifying Accountant Forvis Mazars SA was appointed as joint statutory auditor for a six-year term by the annual shareholders’ meeting held on April 30, 2024. The term of office of Forvis Mazars SA will expire at the end of the annual shareholders’ meeting to be held in 2030, which will approve the financial statements for 2029. This appointment follows the Audit Committee’s recommendation and the decision of the Board of Directors taken on October 27, 2022. The term of office of Ernst & Young et Autres expired at the 2024 Annual Shareholders’ Meeting and could not be renewed because it had reached the maximum legal duration. The report of Ernst & Young et Autres on the consolidated financial statements for each of the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022 did not contain an adverse opinion or a disclaimer of opinion and was not qualified or modified as to uncertainty, audit scope or accounting principles and there were no “disagreements” (as that term is described in Item 16F.(a)(1)(iv) of the Instructions to Form 20-F and the Instructions to Item 16F.) or “reportable events” (as that term is defined in Item 16F.(a)(1)(v) of the Instructions to Form 20-F) during those periods. A copy of Ernst & Young et Autres’ letter, dated February 23, 2024, was filed as Exhibit 15.3 to the annual report on Form 20-F filed on February 23, 2024. Item 16G. Corporate Governance Sanofi is incorporated under the laws of France, with securities listed on regulated public markets in the United States (