Company: LAZ
Filing Date: 2025-05-01
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0001628280-25-021162
Chunk: 85

Company: Lazard, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-05-01
Form: 10-Q
Item: Part I, Item 1
Chunk 85
---
 by Lazard Asset Management LLC (together with its subsidiaries) (“LAM”) and Lazard Frères Gestion SAS (“LFG”). Investors can link to Lazard, Inc., Lazard Group and their operating company websites through http://www.lazard.com. Our websites and social media sites and the information contained therein or connected thereto shall not be deemed to be incorporated into this Form 10-Q.

Business Summary

Founded in 1848, Lazard is one of the world’s preeminent financial advisory and asset management firms, with operations in North and South America, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and Australia. Lazard provides advice on mergers and acquisitions, capital markets and capital solutions, restructuring and liability management, geopolitics, and other 

40

strategic matters, as well as asset management and investment solutions to institutions, corporations, governments, partnerships, family offices, and high net worth individuals. 

Our mission is to provide trusted, independent financial advice and investment solutions to our clients, backed by the intellectual capital of our firm. During our more than 175-year history, we have built a global network of relationships with key decision makers in business, government and investing institutions. This network is both a competitive strength and a powerful resource for Lazard and our clients. As a firm that competes on the quality of our advice, we have two fundamental assets: our people and our reputation.

We operate in cyclical businesses across multiple geographies, industries and asset classes. In recent years, we have deepened our sector expertise, enhanced our specialized insights in geopolitical advisory, and increased connectivity to private capital in our financial advisory business. In addition, we have invested in our global investment and distribution platform in our asset management business to further drive performance. Business and government leaders and global investors seek trusted advisors, and we believe that our business model as an independent advisor will continue to create opportunities for us to attract new clients and key personnel.

Our principal sources of revenue are derived from activities in the following business segments:

•Financial Advisory, which offers corporate, partnership, institutional, government, sovereign and individual clients across the globe a wide array of financial advisory services including M&A advisory, capital markets advisory, shareholder advisory, sovereign advisory, geopolitical advisory, restructuring and liability management, capital raising and placement, and other strategic matters; and

•Asset Management, which offers a broad range of global investment solutions and investment and wealth management services in equity and fixed income strategies, asset allocation strategies, alternative investments and private equity funds to corporations,