Company: LAZ
Filing Date: 2025-07-29
Form Type: 424B5
Source: 0001311370-25-000033
Chunk: 89

Company: Lazard, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-07-29
Form: 424B5
Chunk 89
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 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 “Additional Amounts,” as may be necessary so that the net amount received by each holder (including Additional Amounts) after such withholding or deduction will not be less than the amount such holder would have received if such Taxes had not been required to be withheld or deducted; provided , however , that the foregoing obligation to pay Additional Amounts does not apply to: (1) any Taxes that would not have been so imposed but for the existence of any present or former connection between the relevant holder (or between a fiduciary, settlor, beneficiary, member, or shareholder of, or possessor of power over the

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relevant holder, if the relevant holder is an estate, nominee, trust, or corporation) and a Taxing Jurisdiction (other than the mere receipt of such payment or the ownership or holding outside of the Surviving Person’s country of incorporation of such note); (2) any Taxes that are imposed or withheld by reason of the failure by the relevant holder or the beneficial owner of the debt securities to comply with a written request of the Surviving Person addressed to such holder, after reasonable notice, to provide certification, information, documents, or other evidence concerning the nationality, residence or identity of such holder or such beneficial owner or to make any declaration or similar claim or satisfy any other reporting requirement relating to such matters, which is required by a statute, treaty, regulation, or administrative practice of the applicable Taxing Jurisdiction as a precondition to exemption from,