Company: LAZ
Filing Date: 2025-03-25
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001140361-25-010240
Chunk: 67

Company: Lazard, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-03-25
Form: DEF 14A
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 auditing or accounting reviews or procedures. In performing their oversight responsibility, members of the Committee rely without independent verification on the information provided to them, and on the representations made, by management and the independent auditor. Accordingly, the Committee’s oversight does not provide an independent basis to determine that management has maintained appropriate accounting and financial reporting principles or appropriate internal controls and procedures designed to assure compliance with accounting standards and applicable laws and regulations. Furthermore, the Committee’s considerations and discussions do not assure that the audit of the Company’s financial statements has been carried out in accordance with generally accepted auditing standards or that the financial statements are presented in accordance with GAAP. Based upon the review and discussions described in this report, and subject to the limitations on the role and responsibilities of the Committee referred to above and in the Committee charter, the Committee recommended to our Board of Directors that the audited financial statements referred to above be included in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2024 to be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Dated as of February 18, 2025 Audit Committee Stephen R. Howe Jr. (Chair), Ann-Kristin Achleitner, Andrew M. Alper, and Jane L. Mendillo.

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| Proxy   
 Summary |     | Governance |     | Executive    
 Compensation |     | Audit   
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SHAREHOLDER PROPOSALS ITEM 4 SHAREHOLDER PROPOSALS AND NOMINATIONS FOR THE 2026 ANNUAL MEETING Proxy Statement Proposals . Under the rules of the SEC, proposals that shareholders seek to have included in the proxy statement for our next annual meeting of shareholders must be received by the Corporate Secretary of the Company not later than November 25, 2025. Other Proposals and Nominations . Our By-laws govern the submission of nominations for director or other business proposals that a shareholder wishes to have considered at a meeting of shareholders, but which are not included in the Company’s proxy statement for that meeting. Under our By-laws, nominations for director or other business proposals to be addressed at our next annual meeting may be made by a shareholder entitled to vote who has delivered a notice to the Corporate Secretary of the Company no later than the close of business on February 7, 2026, and not earlier than January 8, 2026. The notice must contain the information required by the By-l