April 2027 - M&A Internship - Generalist team - Paris

Lazard is one of the world’s preeminent financial advisory and asset management firms. Our people and culture make the difference. While global in presence and reach, ours is a close, collaborative community of just over 3,000 professionals. Lazard is a place of continuous knowledge sharing, skill development and relationship building, where professionals grow and succeed together. Our entrepreneurial culture, flat structure and embrace of individual differences, allow creative ideas, original concepts, and unique perspectives to drive our business forward — and for careers to take flight.

Through our financial advisory business, Lazard advises clients around the world on strategic and financial matters including mergers and acquisitions, restructurings, capital structure and capital raising. Our client relationships are built on trust and discretion. As the world’s largest advisory-focused firm, we have exceptional depth of expertise across industry sectors and geographies. We value the rich diversity that comes from blending local perspective with our global network.

We are seeking an intern for our Generalist team which works on numerous large-scale transactional projects across Europe.

The internship will start in April 2027, for a period of 6 months. This position is based in Paris.

We’ll trust you to

• Origination: preparing pitch materials, monitoring investors and market

dynamics

• Execution: preparing process documents, managing the process, building

analyses and financial models

• Coverage: conducting in-depth research and preparing papers on the various

sectors covered and their companies

You’ll need to have

• Final-year student or in the second part of a gap year at a top Business

School or Engineering School, or enrolled in a Master’s degree (Master 2) with a focus on Corporate Finance/Financial Engineering

• First internship experience in the financial sector (investment banking,

private equity, audit, corporate fina