Company: LAZ
Filing Date: 2025-07-28
Form Type: 424B5
Source: 0001311370-25-000027
Chunk: 70

Company: Lazard, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-07-28
Form: 424B5
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 developments described actually occurred, our business, financial condition, or results of operations would likely suffer. The risks and uncertainties we have described are not the only ones facing our Company. Additional risks and uncertainties not presently known to us or that we currently consider immaterial may also affect our business operations.

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### SPECIAL NOTE REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS
This prospectus, any accompanying prospectus supplement, and the information incorporated herein and therein by reference include forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act and Section 21E of the Exchange Act. Such forward-looking statements can be located in this prospectus and in the information incorporated by reference in this prospectus under the captions “Business,” “Risk Factors,” “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations,” and in other sections of this prospectus and in other information incorporated by reference in this prospectus.

In some cases, forward-looking statements can be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as “may,” “might,” “will,” “should,” “could,” “would,” “expect,” “plan,” “anticipate,” “believe,” “estimate,” “predict,” “potential,” “target,” “goal,” or “continue” and the negative of these terms and other comparable terminology. These forward-looking statements, which are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties, and assumptions about us, may include projections of our future financial performance based on our growth strategies, business plans and initiatives, and anticipated trends in our business.

These forward-looking statements are only predictions based on our current expectations and projections about future events. There are important factors that could cause our actual results, level of activity, performance, or achievements to differ materially from the results, level of activity, performance, or achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements.

These factors include, but are not limited to, the numerous risks and uncertainties outlined under the caption “Risk Factors” above and in the documents incorporated by reference into this prospectus, including the following:

• adverse general economic conditions or adverse conditions in global or regional financial markets;

• a decline in our revenues, for example due to a decline in overall mergers and acquisitions (“M&A”) activity, our share of the M&A market or our assets under management (“AUM”);

• losses caused by financial or other problems experienced by third parties;

• losses due to unidentified or unanticipated risks;

• a lack of liquidity, i.e., ready access to