Company: LAZ
Filing Date: 2025-03-14
Form Type: S-3ASR
Source: 0001628280-25-012720
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Company: Lazard, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-03-14
Form: S-3ASR
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 which we refer to herein as “stock purchase units.” The stock purchase contracts may require holders to secure their obligations under the stock purchase contracts in a specified manner. The stock purchase contracts also may require us to make periodic payments to the holders of the stock purchase contracts or the stock purchase units, as the case may be, or vice versa, and those payments may be unsecured or pre-funded on some basis.

The applicable prospectus supplement will describe the terms of any stock purchase contracts or stock purchase units offered thereby and will contain a discussion of any material United States Federal income tax considerations applicable to such stock purchase contracts or stock purchase units.

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### DESCRIPTION OF DEBT SECURITIES WE MAY OFFER
For the purposes of this section, references to “Lazard” means Lazard, Inc. excluding, unless the context otherwise requires or otherwise expressly stated, its subsidiaries.

Lazard Group may offer unsecured general obligations or secured obligations, which may be senior (the “senior debt securities”) or subordinated (the “subordinated debt securities”). The senior debt securities and the subordinated debt securities are together referred to in this prospectus as the “debt securities.” Unless otherwise provided in a prospectus supplement, the senior debt securities will have the same rank as all Lazard Group’s other unsubordinated debt. The subordinated debt securities may be senior or junior to, or rank pari passu with, Lazard Group’s other subordinated obligations and will be entitled to payment only after payment on Lazard Group’s senior indebtedness. Any debt securities that Lazard Group offers will be fully and unconditionally guaranteed by Lazard.

The senior debt securities and the subordinated debt securities may be issued under the indenture, dated as of May 10, 2005, between Lazard Group and The Bank of New York Mellon (formerly known as The Bank of New York), as trustee, as supplemented by a supplemental indenture, or may be issued under an indenture to be entered into among Lazard, Lazard Group, and the trustee named in the prospectus supplement, a form of which is attached as an exhibit to the registration statement of which this prospectus forms a part. Certain terms and provisions of any debt securities Lazard Group issues will be set forth in one or more supplemental indentures. When we refer to the indenture in this prospectus, we are referring to the applicable indenture, as supplemented by each applicable supplemental indenture. The following summary is of certain provisions of