Company: LAZ
Filing Date: 2025-07-28
Form Type: 424B5
Source: 0001311370-25-000027
Chunk: 88

Company: Lazard, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-07-28
Form: 424B5
Chunk 88
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 on, all the debt securities, according to their tenor, and the due and punctual performance and observance of all the covenants and conditions of the indenture to be performed by Lazard Group,

(c) immediately before and immediately after giving effect to such transaction or series of related transactions, no default or event of default shall have occurred and be continuing, and

(d) Lazard Group shall deliver, or cause to be delivered, to the trustee, an officers’ certificate and an opinion of counsel, each stating that such transaction and the supplemental indenture, if any, in respect thereto comply with this covenant and that all conditions precedent in the indenture relating to such transaction have been complied with.

For the purposes of the foregoing covenant, the indenture will provide that the sale, transfer, assignment, lease, conveyance, or other disposition of all the property of one or more subsidiaries of Lazard Group, which property, if held by Lazard Group instead of such subsidiaries, would constitute all or substantially all the property of Lazard Group on a consolidated basis, shall be deemed to be the transfer of all or substantially all the property of Lazard Group.

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If, following a transaction to which the provisions of the indenture described above under “—Merger, Consolidation, or Sale of Assets” applies, the Surviving Person is organized other than under the laws of the United States of America, any state thereof or the District of Columbia, the indenture will provide that all payments made by the Surviving Person under, or with respect to, the debt securities will be made free and clear of, and without withholding or deduction for or on account of, any present or future tax, duty, levy, impost, assessment, or other governmental charge (including penalties, interest, and other liabilities related thereto), which we collectively refer to in this prospectus as the “Taxes,” imposed or levied by or on behalf of the jurisdiction of organization of the Surviving Person or any political subdivision thereof or taxing authority therein, which we refer to in this prospectus as a “Taxing Jurisdiction,” unless the Surviving Person is required to withhold or deduct Taxes by law or by the official interpretation or administration thereof.

If the Surviving Person is so required to withhold or deduct any amount for, or on account of, such Taxes from any payment made under or with respect to the debt securities, the Surviving Person will pay such additional amounts, which we refer to in this prospectus as “