general counsel - reactors and services business group | AREVA Group
Antoine Genevois
general counsel - reactors and services business group | AREVA Group
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Antoine Genevois began his legal career in 2000 at Thales Group, where he provided support to set up the company’s compliance program and the litigation associated with the sale of...
Antoine Genevois has over 12 years of understanding of AREVA Group’s business across the USA and Europe, having held a number of roles. During that time he has reorganised the French legal team adding a commercial advantage to the nuclear power and renewable energy segments. Genevois merged teams that were working on similar issues and with similar customers, but with different business units, in order to encourage the ‘cross-fertilisation of knowledge and ensured that [they] are coherent in [their] answers to the customers’. Genevois is recognised for introducing flexible methods that complement the international nature of the group. Most notable is his simplified approach to policies and contracting rules in China that support the business without the back and forth of paperwork with the headquarters. In his previous role with AREVA in the US, Genevois handled a diverse range of legal issues in order to obtain loan guarantees from the Department of Energy; these totaled into billions of US dollars, and included the landmark loan attained for the construction of an enrichment facility. Having earned the trust of the top management and across the day-to-day business team in both the US and France, it comes as no surprise that those working with Genevois admire and praise his work ethic and management capabilities in addition to respecting the level of trust he creates between him and his peers.