Company: LAZ
Filing Date: 2025-07-29
Form Type: 424B5
Source: 0001311370-25-000033
Chunk: 83

Company: Lazard, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-07-29
Form: 424B5
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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 the form of indenture and certain general features of the debt securities, and this summary does not purport to be complete and is subject to, and is qualified in its entirety by reference to, all the provisions of the indenture and the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 (the “TIA”), as amended.

The following description summarizes certain general terms and provisions of the debt securities. Other, more particular terms of the debt securities offered by any prospectus supplement and the extent, if any, to which such general provisions may apply to the debt securities will be summarized in the