Lazard - January 2026 - Investment banking - equity advisory internship - Paris

Deadline: As soon as possible

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  • France
This position is available from January 2026 for a 6-month period and is based in Paris.

Overview

Within Lazard’s Financial Advisory, the Equity Advisory team provides comprehensive guidance to corporate clients across EMEA on a wide range of equity market related scenarios and transactions. This includes capital markets transactions, shareholder activism, the development of a company’s strategic equity story, investor engagement planning, and trading analytics analysis.

Details

Our team’s missions:

  • Driving and coordinating all phases of the IPO process, advising on syndicate banks selection, incentive structuring, investor targeting, offering size and pricing
  • Providing advice on all other ECM products such as primary and secondary ABBs, rights issues and equity linked products
  • Delivering customized guidance on live shareholder activism campaigns, incorporating both tactical and strategic planning and execution of the campaign defense, as well as advice on addressing dissident challenges during shareholder meetings
  • Assisting companies on activism response planning and preparation programs
  • Providing assistance on contested M&A transactions
  • Supporting M&A teams in equity financing considerations for our clients
  • Assistance in developing the capital markets narrative and financial communication for EMEA companies, including in relation to earnings, roadshows, investor days, shareholder meetings

Helping you to reach your full potential

As an intern, you will be fully integrated into a pan-European team and the broader global Lazard Capital Markets and Financial Advisory platform.

You will be working in an international environment alongside members of Lazard's M&A coverage teams, delivering high end financial and strategic advice to Lazard's clients.

From maintaining client communication to helping Lazard structure client transaction, our analyst is a vital part of our team.

Our values

Excellence

  • Put our clients’ interests first
  • Act with conviction informed by deep research and analysis
  • Live by the highest standards of integrity and discretion
  • Innovate constantly and welcome change

Empowerment

  • Encourage intellectual curiosity; question assumptions and challenge conventions
  • Foster a diverse and inclusive culture in which everyone can bring their full self to work
  • Value and embrace idiosyncratic perspectives
  • Develop our people in an environment of learning, respect and dignity

Engagement

  • Apply our local insights and global perspective for clients
  • Collaborate to deliver the firm’s best thinking and skills
  • Lead by example with drive and ambition
  • Recognize that we are stewards of a great heritage and build on it for the future

Opportunity is About


Eligibility

Candidates should be from:


Description of Ideal Candidate

Qualifications

  • Prior experience in investment banking and/or public markets buy side / sell side is a must
  • Top tier business or engineering school
  • Ability to produce / present technically written materials / client pitches
  • Excellent organizational skills, ability to multi-task across multiple projects
  • Hard skills: excellent technical skills on Office Suite and professional investment banking tools (Bloomberg, FactSet, Dealogic …)
  • Proficiency in professional English and French

Dates

Deadline: As soon as possible


Cost/funding for participants

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