Danone Ventures Legal Intern (H2 2026)

Danone Ventures Legal Intern

Danone is a global leader in healthy food through its three businesses: Essential Dairy and Plant Based Products, Waters, and Specialized Nutrition. Its mission, bringing health through food to as many people as possible, embodies its commitment to human progress and business success.

To further this mission, Danone Ventures (DV), Danone's corporate venture arm, was formed. Through DV, we identify early-stage food and foodtech start-ups that share our vision of a future of healthy and sustainable food. Leveraging equity investments as a tool, we help facilitate value creating partnerships between Danone and start-ups. We have strong beliefs and convictions and look to partner with like-minded, innovative start-ups as a key criterion of our investment philosophy.

The DV Legal Intern will support DV and the DV team in establishing new and managing existing strategic projects. Working closely with DV's legal team and fully immersed within a business environment, this role is a unique opportunity to gain first-hand exposure to corporate venture capital, innovative start-ups, and a wide variety of business models and topics while working on the design and implementation of strategic investments at global level. This internship will last 9 to 12 months and begin in the second half of 2026. The position will be based in New York.

For passionate people looking for autonomy, exciting career opportunities and the potential to impact the future of healthy food, Danone truly has something special inside.

About the Job:

• You will assist with the preparation, structuring and implementation of investment and collaboration projects within a cross-functional team
• You will participate in legal and regulatory due diligence, and be directly exposed to discussions with potential target companies and legal counsels
• You will review, analyze and summarize financing and shareholders' agreements
• You will be exposed to financial, business and strategic topics as part of investment assessments and portfolio companies' management
• You will help with the legal reporting relating to our portfolio companies in direct connection with various internal stakeholders
• You will manage legal initiatives supporting the general operations of DV, including by contributing to the design and implementation of internal policies and processes, and the drafting of templates
• You will assist with legal and regulatory projects involving our portfolio companies
• You will assist with research and in-depth analysis of new potential investment territories aligned with DV's investment thesis and Danone's strategic priorities
• You will help coordinate certain projects with Danone internal stakeholders
• You will utilize MS Excel and Powerpoint for communication with the team
• You will conduct presentations to the team on your internship projects

About You

• You received a legal degree from or are currently enrolled in a top tier law school in France, with a focus on business/corporate/contract law; having both civil and common law backgrounds is a plus
• You have a business or finance academic background, giving you a good understanding of the financial, business and accounting mechanics underlying investment decision and documentation
• You have already gained experience in the corporate department of a law firm or the legal department of a large company
• You have strong communication skills, both verbal and written, in English and in French, and are comfortable working in an international environment
• You are a critical thinker and specifically pay attention to detail; you are able to tackle and summarize complex issues
• You are interested in pursuing a wide range of tasks with a high level of accountability; you are curious about, and are comfortable dealing with, a wide variety of topics
• You will have the ability to work autonomously, with a self-starter mindset and projects that will require you to develop the execution roadmap and follow
• You will have strength working with Microsoft Office Suite programs
• You will have comfort working in a team environment with business leaders across all levels