About

Nicolas Petrovic spent eight years at top business law firm August et Debouzy, working in their regulatory, litigation, contract IT and technology departments before moving in-house in 2007. Petrovic joined multinational management, consulting and technology services company Accenture in 2007 where he gradually extended his role to lead corporate contracting in France and some matrix responsibility for legal support to business units in Benelux. Petrovic joined Sodexo in November 2014, as general counsel France for the on-site business which accounts for 85% of Sodexo’s revenue. He currently heads a team of 14 attorneys and four paralegals, but demonstrating the confidence that the Sodexo management has in him, he has taken responsibility over the Benelux legal team and serves as the lead counsel for the global Sodexo business segment “Sports & Leisure”. An expert manager with skills in contract, IT, intellectual property and privacy, Petrovic demonstrated his department’s ability to contribute to company strategy in different fields when he positioned his department with innovation and digital champions, stating ‘legal was nowhere near these areas when I joined’. Explaining the changes, Petrovic affirms that he has ‘re-aligned my team to reflect the change in Sodexo which will operate in business units globally rather than at a country level’. When successfully navigating through the market shifts that impact the company, Petrovic explains how ‘you need to make sure your team is able to understand the shift of strategy and consequences on our day to day business and therefore the necessity to, non-stop, develop our skills’.