Caroline Le Masne de Chermont has been appointed head of legal affairs for the Vivendi Group.
In her new role, she will report to Frédéric Crépin, the group’s general counsel.
Le Masne de Chermont is a trained lawyer and after having worked for five years at the law firm of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton in Paris, she joined Vivendi’s legal department in 2007, where she held the position of VP, corporate law and M&A.
In this position she worked on many significant transactions for the group, including the creation of Activision Blizzard and the subsequent sale of Vivendi’s interest therein, the sale of SFR, the acquisition and then sale of the Brazilian telecoms operator GVT, and, more recently, the acquisition of an interest in Telecom Italia and the public take-over bid on Gameloft.
