Danone Ventures Legal Intern (H2 2024)
Company: Danone North America
Location: New York
Posted on: April 15, 2024
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Job Description:
About the jobDanone 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. About youYou 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. About usAt Danone North America, you'll
work with some of the best-known food and beverage brands in the
world likeActivia, 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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