Danone is a global leader in healthy food through its three businesses: 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 a future of food, focused on health and sustainability. 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 General Counsel and fully immerged within a business team, 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 approximately 6 months and take place in the second half of 2024. The position will be based out of Danone's New York City office.

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.
• You will help with the legal reporting relating to our portfolio companies.
• You will review, analyze and summarize financing and shareholders' agreements.
• 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 participate in legal and regulatory due diligence.
• You will assist with legal and regulatory projects involving our portfolio companies.
• 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.

• You received a legal degree from or are currently enrolled in a top tier law school, with a focus on business/corporate/contract law; having both civil and common law backgrounds or a European legal degree is a plus.
• You have already gained experience in the corporate department of a law firm or the legal department of a large organization.
• You have a good understanding of the business mechanics underlying investment documentation; having a business or finance academic background is a plus.
• You have strong communication skills, both verbal and written in English and are comfortable working in an international environment; being proficient in French is a plus.
• You are a critical thinker and specifically pay attention to detail; you are able to tackle and summarize complex issues.
• You will have the ability to work autonomously, with a self-starter mindset and projects that will require you to develop the execution roadmap.
• You will have experience working with Microsoft Office Suite programs.
• You will have comfort working in a team environment with business leaders across all levels.

At Danone North America, you'll work with some of the best-known food and beverage brands in the world like Activia, Silk, Two Good, Oikos, evian, and Happy Family. You'll be part of one of the largest Certified B Corps in the world, working together to make sure our brands create real benefits for people, communities, and the planet. We have 6,000+ employees across the U.S. and Canada. Come join our movement for a healthier world: One Planet. One Health BY YOU.

Danone North America doesn't just welcome what makes you unique, we value it. We're proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. All hires to our team are based on qualifications, merit and business needs. We recruit, employ, train and promote regardless of race, color, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, veteran status, genetic characteristic or any other protected status. Faithful to our values of openness and humanism, all of our employees share in the commitment to engage one another with dignity and respect.

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