Company: LAZ
Filing Date: 2025-07-28
Form Type: 424B5
Source: 0001311370-25-000027
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Company: Lazard, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-07-28
Form: 424B5
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 liability company that is the current holding company for substantially all of the subsidiaries that conduct our businesses;

• “Lazard, Inc.” refers to Lazard, Inc., a Delaware corporation, whose shares of common stock are publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “LAZ.” Lazard, Inc.’s subsidiaries include Lazard Group and its respective subsidiaries; and

• “Lazard,” “we,” “us,” “our” and “the Company” refer to Lazard Group and Lazard, Inc. and their subsidiaries, as the context requires, except in the section titled “Description of Notes” in this prospectus supplement.

We prepare our financial statements in U.S. dollars and in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles, or “U.S. GAAP,” including all of the financial statements incorporated by reference or included in this prospectus supplement. Our fiscal year ends on December 31. In this prospectus supplement, except where otherwise indicated, references to “$” or “dollars” are to the lawful currency of the United States.

The distribution of this prospectus supplement or the accompanying prospectus and the sale of the notes in certain jurisdictions may be restricted by law. Persons in possession of this prospectus supplement or the accompanying prospectus are required to inform themselves about and observe any such restrictions. We are not making an offer to sell the notes in any jurisdiction where the offer or sale is not permitted.

#### Prohibition of sales to EEA retail investors
The notes are not intended to be offered, sold or otherwise made available to and should not be offered, sold or otherwise made available to any retail investor in the European Economic Area (“EEA”). For these purposes, a retail investor means a person who is one (or more) of: (i) a retail client as defined in point (11) of Article 4(1) of Directive 2014/65/EU (as amended, “MiFID II”); or (ii) a customer within the meaning of Directive (EU) 2016/97 (as amended, the “Insurance Distribution Directive”), where that customer would not qualify as a professional client

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as defined in point (10) of Article 4(1) of MiFID II; or (iii) not a qualified investor as defined in Regulation (EU) 2017/1129 (as amended or superseded, the “Prospectus Regulation”). Consequently, no key information