Company: LAZ
Filing Date: 2025-07-25
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0001311370-25-000022
Chunk: 244

Company: Lazard, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-07-25
Form: 10-Q
Item: Part II, Item 8
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 expense decreased $54 million, or 5%, as compared to the 2024 period, which included $47 million associated with the cost-saving initiatives.

Adjusted compensation and benefits expense (which excludes certain items and which we believe allows for improved comparability between periods, as described above) was $926 million, a decrease of $19 million, or 2%, as compared to $945 million in the 2024 period. The ratio of adjusted compensation and benefits expense to adjusted net revenue was 65.5% for the 2025 period, as compared to 66.0% for the 2024 period. 

Non-compensation expense increased $18 million, or 6%, as compared to the 2024 period. Adjusted non-compensation expense increased $22 million, or 8%, as compared to the 2024 period. Such increases in non-compensation expense and adjusted non-compensation expense were primarily due to increased marketing and business development, occupancy and equipment and technology and information services expenses. The ratio of adjusted non-compensation expense to adjusted net revenue was 21.6% for the 2025 period, as compared to 19.8% for the 2024 period.

Operating income increased $30 million, or 25%, as compared to the 2024 period.

Adjusted operating income decreased $21 million, or 11%, as compared to the 2024 period, and, as a percentage of adjusted net revenue, was 12.9% for the 2025 period, as compared to 14.2% in the 2024 period. 

The provision for income taxes reflects an effective tax rate of 16.5%, as compared to 21.9% for the 2024 period. The change in the effective tax rate principally relates to increases in discrete benefits for share-based incentive compensation and changes in the geographic mix of earnings.

Net income attributable to noncontrolling interests increased $1 million, or 15%, as compared to the 2024 period.

For additional discussion of the drivers of our adjusted operating results for the period, see “Business Segments” below.

Business Segments

The following is a discussion of net revenue, adjusted net revenue, adjusted compensation and benefits expense, adjusted non-compensation expense, and adjusted operating income (loss) for the Company’s segments: Financial Advisory, Asset Management and Corporate. Adjusted compensation and benefits expense and adjusted non-compensation expense include costs directly incurred by each segment, with certain adjustments.

Adjusted net revenue,