Company: LAZ
Filing Date: 2025-07-28
Form Type: 424B5
Source: 0001311370-25-000027
Chunk: 89

Company: Lazard, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-07-28
Form: 424B5
Chunk 89
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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, or reduction in the rate of withholding or deduction of, all or part of such Taxes; (3) any Taxes withheld or deducted pursuant to Sections 1471 through 1474 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (or any amended or successor version of such Sections), any U.S. Treasury regulations promulgated thereunder, any official interpretations thereof or any agreements (including any law implementing any such agreement) entered into in connection with the implementation thereof; or (4) any Taxes that are payable otherwise than by deduction or withholding from payments made under or with respect to the debt securities; (5) any estate, inheritance, gift, sales, excise, transfer, personal property tax, or similar tax, assessment, or governmental charge; or (6) any combination of the items (1) through (5) above; nor shall the Surviving Person be required to pay Additional Amounts (a) if the payment could have been made without such deduction or withholding if the beneficiary of the payment had presented