Company: LAZ
Filing Date: 2025-07-29
Form Type: 424B5
Source: 0001311370-25-000033
Chunk: 88

Company: Lazard, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-07-29
Form: 424B5
Chunk 88
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 or substantially all its property in any one transaction or series of related transactions unless:

(a) Lazard Group shall be the surviving person (the “Surviving Person”) or the Surviving Person (if other than Lazard Group) formed by such merger, consolidation, or amalgamation or to which such sale, transfer, assignment, lease, conveyance, or disposition is made shall be a corporation or limited liability company organized and existing under the laws of the United States of America, any State thereof, the District of Columbia, Australia, Bermuda, Canada, Japan, Sweden, the United Kingdom, or any country that is a member of the European Monetary Union and was a member of the European Monetary Union on January 1, 2004,

(b) the Surviving Person (if other than Lazard Group) expressly assumes, by supplemental indenture in form satisfactory to the trustee, executed and delivered to the trustee by such Surviving Person, the due and punctual payment of the principal of, and premium, if any, and interest 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.

#### Additional Amounts
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