Company: LAZ
Filing Date: 2025-07-28
Form Type: 424B5
Source: 0001311370-25-000027
Chunk: 65

Company: Lazard, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-07-28
Form: 424B5
Chunk 65
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 States Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) using the “automatic shelf” registration process. Under this automatic shelf registration process, Lazard, Inc., Lazard Group LLC, or certain of our security holders, may sell the securities described in this prospectus in one or more offerings in amounts to be determined at the time of any such offerings.

This prospectus provides you with a general description of the securities Lazard, Inc., Lazard Group LLC, or a selling security holder may offer. Each time Lazard, Inc., Lazard Group LLC, or, under certain circumstances, our security holders, sell securities, a prospectus supplement to this prospectus will be provided that will contain specific information about the terms and the means of distribution of that offering. The prospectus supplement may include other special considerations applicable to such offering of securities. The prospectus supplement may also add to, update, or change information contained in this prospectus. If there is any inconsistency between the information in this prospectus and any prospectus supplement, you should rely on the information in the prospectus supplement. You should carefully read this prospectus and any prospectus supplement, together with additional information described under the heading “Where You Can Find More Information,” before investing in any of the securities offered by this prospectus.

Each prospectus supplement will describe: the terms of the securities offered, any initial public offering price, the price paid to Lazard, Inc. or Lazard Group LLC, as applicable, for the securities, the net proceeds to Lazard, Inc. or Lazard Group LLC, as applicable, the manner of distribution, any underwriting compensation, and the other specific material terms related to the offering of the securities. For more detail on the terms of the securities, you should read the exhibits filed with or incorporated by reference in our registration statement of which this prospectus forms a part.

On January 1, 2024, we completed our conversion (the “Conversion”) from an exempted company incorporated under the laws of Bermuda named Lazard Ltd to a U.S. C-Corporation named Lazard, Inc., a company incorporated under the laws of the State of Delaware. Pursuant to the Conversion, each share of Lazard Ltd common stock was converted into one share of Lazard, Inc. common stock.

In this prospectus, unless the context otherwise requires, the terms:

• “Lazard,” “we,” “our,” “us,” the “Company,” and similar terms mean (i) Lazard, Inc. and