Job Description

We are offering 6 month Internship starting July 2026 in the Corporate department.

You will have the opportunity to interact with other DLA Piper offices and experience our "One Team, No Borders" way of working, to improve and test your technical legal skills internationally. We strive to give the opportunity to our interns to feel and understand the Lawyers' world to be prepared for their professional challenges of tomorrow.

This internship role is for a fixed term. It is not a Bar traineeship role.

Our Interns have the opportunity to support on a variety of tasks within the Corporate Practice Group:

Our Corporate team offers comprehensive legal services across the full spectrum of cross boarder and national transactions to multinational corporations, investment funds and domestic entrepreneurs. Our involvement in numerous complex transactions has allowed our lawyers to develop extensive experience in all key areas of corporate law.

Main duties and responsibilities

The successful Intern would be assisting our team of experts on national and cross border corporate transactions, including M&A and PE deals, joint ventures, group reorganisations and general corporate/commercial work:

• drafting a broad range of corporate documents and setting up of entities;
• project management;
• assisting companies, founders, board of directors, executives and committees on operational matters and strategic transactions and providing them with on-going personalised legal support;
• research on legal matters; and
• handling due diligence processes and closings.

About you

We pride ourselves on having a collegiate environment and we are looking for Interns with a strong leadership potential, who are passionate about our culture, values and ethos of the firm.

We are keen to hear from Interns with the following experience:

• A strong academic record;
• Fluency in both English and French
• A good command of German or any other language would be advantageous;
• Stays current on key legal and business developments;
• Commercially astute and stay current on key legal and business news.