About

An outstanding lawyer with great managerial skills, Isabelle Robitaille has had a highly impressive legal career with a distinct focus on pharmaceuticals. In 2000, she started articling at Paquette Gadler, where she worked on a number of cases for the pharmaceutical industry, before joining Shire Biochem in 2002. After a couple of years there and a short spell at Abbott Laboratories, Robitaille joined Sanofi as a senior legal counsel. Her first in-house managerial role was at the startup Labopharm, where Robitaille spent two years of her career (2010-2012). Robitaille joined her current employer Sandoz in 2014 initially as senior lawyer responsible for legal and governmental affairs and has very quickly risen through the ranks to the position of director for legal affairs. In her current role Robitaille is the legal counsel responsible for all M&A transactions, interacting with the President on a frequent basis and constantly looking for contacts to form synergies with other businesses. Robitaille has made a number of pivotal changes to the legal department that have increased the quality of legal service. ‘Over my time in the role, the department has changed quite a bit,’ she says. ‘We have reshuffled the workload a lot and responsibilities are now aimed at a more dedicated type of service’. She is praised for her achievements throughout her career and is described by her colleagues as a ‘person of integrity’.