Laure Roux is a French national with over 20 years of experience working in legal and compliance roles for pharmaceutical companies. She is currently the Chief Operating Officer at Eightstone Pte. Ltd. in Singapore, where she oversees legal, compliance, auditing and accounting functions. Previously she held senior in-house lawyer and compliance positions at companies such as AstraZeneca and Janssen-Cilag. She is fluent in English and French with good command of Spanish.

1. Surname: ROUX Address: 99 Robertson Quay
First name: Laure Rivergate #14-12
Date ofbirth: 08/02/1976 Singapore, 238258
Nationality: French
Marital status: married,2 children
Mobile: +65 96330540
+33 607745411
E-mail address: laurea_david@yahoo.fr
Singaporean Permanent Resident
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Since 06/15 EIGHTSTONE Pte. Ltd. (Singapore)
Chief Operating Officer: organizing, supervising and coordinating the activities of the Legal,
Compliance, auditing et accounting functions.
Organizing the legal and regulatory framework; managing relations with market regulators and
supervisory authorities; providing advice and training; acting as the permanent control
correspondent; ensuring that the Company’s operating and accounting processes are performed
in the best conditions of security and productivity; preparing accounting and management
reports for Senior Management, Board, regulators and statutory auditors.
Since 07/14 French Lab – Owner (Singapore)
Bringing to Singapore some artisanal hand-made fashion products from France. Set up of the
company, sale of products.
05/13- 06/13 CRÈME SIMON- Regulatory consultancy (Singapore)
Consultancy and advice to a new Singaporean company, launching cosmetics: cosmetics
regulations, advertising and publicity in Europe and Singapore, interpretation of laws,
guidelines and rules applicable, compliance issues.
07/06 – 08/11 ASTRAZENECA – Legal Department (France)
In house senior lawyer: providing legal counsel, strategic guidance and supporting the business and
all departments on a day-to-day basis.
Drafting and negotiating a wide variety of contracts: co-marketing, promotion, manufacturing,
advertising, distribution, consultancy, clinical research, IT related agreements, etc.
(French/English); providing legal advices on matters relating to business and commercial law,
pharmaceutical law, competition law, regulatory, compliance; supporting business initiatives;
liaising with and being the contact point for outside counsel. Supporting Procurement
department (RFI, RFP, negotiation, selection, signature and contract operational follow-up)
Responsible for handling various litigation matters (commercial, contracts, product liability)
and manage all internal and external investigations related to the business.
In addition, in charge of specific areas:
- Intellectual Property matters,
- Data Privacy: guidance and counsel for France,review of the website content and policies
- Functional management of the legal team,
SENIOR IN HOUSE LAWYER (legal and compliance) – 11 years PQE
International Environment

2. - Project manager to set up and implement a new contracts database: choice of the service
provider, customization of the database, training of employees, and integration in the
contracts process.
- Responsible, with recognized success, for the entire review of contracts procedures:
coordination of all team members of the project (business lines, marketing, legal,
compliance…), interview of key people, due diligence, process optimisation, and
redefinition of process key roles.
- Validation and adaptation to local constraints of contracts templates coming from the
corporate (clinical trials, co-promotion agreements,commercial agreements,licensing
agreements)
- Creating services agreements referring to corporate MSA (co-promotion in Cardiology).
Supporting the compliance team in its day-to-day work:
- Provide guidance and counsel on compliance policy interpretation and implementation,
- Review and validation of templates documents, SOP, contracts for compliance clauses
and training materials,
- Implementation of FCPA in France: training of employees, definition of the policies and
the process,development of training materials and of website, modifying contracts
clauses and templates documents,
- Interface with compliance team, working on a day-to-day basis with them, regarding
French anti-corruption regulation, HCC,FCPA,code of conduct and ethical issues,
requirements and implementation. Translation of global strategies into regional and local
level, based on appropriate local needs, goals and objectives, taking into account local
external regulatory trends and environment.
- Co-lead internal audit and external investigations.
01/11-03/11 University of Lille, Law School – Teacher (France)
Pharmaceutical law master degree
External consultancy:teacherin both French and English
11/00 – 06/06 JANSSEN-CILAG (Johnson & Johnson) – Legal Department (France)
Working on the 3 integrated businesses of the Group: Pharmaceutical,Medical Devices, Consumer
healthcare/Cosmetics.
Dealing with business law, negotiation and drafting contracts in both French and English,
pharmaceutical and regulatory rules, commercial issues (drafts/litigation), implementation and
respect of internal procedures, training of employees on pharmaceutical law, consultant for
operating people, drafting, review and update of clinical research agreements.
In charge of all mattersrelating to “DMOS” issues (French regulation against gifts to healthcare
professionals):
- Implementation of the process and of a code of good practice, implementation of the anti-
corruption and anti-bribery program (definition of the process and training of employees
regarding competition law, in order to make them sensitive to risks, to investigation and
dawn raids from French and European authorities, and on careful writing).
- Training of new employees and annual refresher training (meeting, annual sales force
event…),
- Lead internal audit, reviewing data to identify potential breach of regulation, process gaps
and inconsistencies by the employees. Check the database where were collected data from
employees, bills of expenses. Analyse the data collected, provided feedback,wrote a
report to the management board with my conclusions in order to guide the management to
close gaps and implement corrective actions and also to demonstrate that the process was
or was not effective.
- Participation in external audit (investigation from French or European authorities)

3. Key member of the corporate team conducting a due diligence for a medical devices company
acquisition;
Supporting the legal Director in a “dawn raid” leaded by the European Commission related to
a competition law matter;
07/00 – 10/00 JANSSEN-CILAG (Johnson & Johnson) – Trainee in the Legal Department (France)
Under supervision of the General Counsel, in charge of the legal database, drafting legal
memos, legal research.
04/00 - 06/00 PHARMACIA & UPJOHN – Trainee in the Legal Department (France)
Under supervision of the General Counsel / Senior Lawyer, legal research, drafting contracts.
EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS
09/14-12/14 INTERNATIONAL COMPLIANCE TRAINING ACADEMY (Singapore)
ICA Advanced certificate in Governance, Risk and Compliance (IBF Level 1) – Graduated
in December 2014.
- Demonstrate understanding of the financial services industry from a compliance perspective as well
as awareness of industry trends and developments related to the compliance function,
- Research, gather data, and complete an analysis of compliance matters under supervision of senior
compliance officers,
- Recognize common compliance vulnerabilities and recommend basic compliance controls to mitigate
compliance risks
- Execute the annual compliance plan and compliance monitoring programme underthe direction and
supervision of a seniorcompliance officer or team leader
- Provide support to senior compliance officers in organizing, designing and delivery of compliance
training
1999-2000 UNIVERSITY OF PARIS XI (France), Law School
Master of Law: specialization in Pharmaceuticaldomain (“DESS”)
1995-1999 UNIVERSITY OF LIMOGES (France), Law School
Legal Law Master (4 years-study)
NOTABLE SKILLS
- Strong understanding of lifescience area and regulated industry
- Excellent analytical and decision based, problem-solving skills, autonomous and pragmatic
- Efficient communication skills, capacity to entertain good and professional relationships with colleagues at
all levels
- Strong understanding of the principles of contract law and other laws that influence contract language
- Realbusiness partner
- Keen to interact with diverse group of people spanning a broad range of cultures and business teams.
- Committed on quality and delay
- Autonomy, ability to work well under pressure with minimal supervision
- Good team player, also well trained in leadership and motivational skills
COMPUTING
Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Internet

4. LANGUAGES
French: Mother Tongue
English: Fluent/ Individual lessons for many years. Living in Singapore since 2011.
Training English for Lawyers – Communicaid London (Nov. 2005)
Spanish: Good Command
OTHER INFORMATION
Professional Associations: Member of the Association of French lawyers in Singapore, Member of the
French Association of In house Lawyers (“AFJE”) and member of the Association of Lawyers in
PharmaceuticalIndustry (“AJIP”)
Sports and Hobbies: Golf, yoga, tennis, art and literature, cinema, travelling.
Strong references can be provided and available on LinkedIn profile.