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AGREEMENT AND PLAN OF MERGER among SANOFI-AVENTIS, GC MERGER CORP. and GENZYME CORPORATION Dated as of February 16, 2011

Agreement and Plan of Merger • February 16th, 2011 • Genzyme Corp • Biological products, (no disgnostic substances) • Massachusetts

• Contract Type
  Agreement and Plan of Merger
• Filed
  February 16th, 2011
• Company
  Genzyme Corp
• Industry
  Biological products, (no disgnostic substances)
• Jurisdiction
  Massachusetts

AGREEMENT AND PLAN OF MERGER, dated as of February 16, 2011 (this “Agreement”), among Sanofi-Aventis, a French société anonyme (“Parent”), GC Merger Corp., a Massachusetts corporation and wholly-owned Subsidiary of Parent (“Purchaser”), and Genzyme Corporation, a Massachusetts corporation (the “Company”).