Company: LAZ
Filing Date: 2025-03-25
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001140361-25-010240
Chunk: 70

Company: Lazard, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-03-25
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 70
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TABLE OF CONTENTS

| Proxy   
 Summary |     | Governance |     | Executive    
 Compensation |     | Audit   
 Matters |     | Shareholder 
 Proposals   |     | General     
 Information |

Attendance at the Annual Meeting The 2025 Annual Meeting of Shareholders will be held in virtual format only. Only shareholders, their proxy holders and our guests may attend the virtual meeting. If you are a holder of record and plan to attend the virtual meeting, please indicate this when you vote. We have structured the virtual annual meeting to provide shareholders the same rights as if the meeting were held in person, including the ability to vote electronically during the meeting and to ask questions in accordance with the rules of conduct for the meeting. You may attend, vote and submit questions during the virtual meeting by visiting by visiting our annual meeting website at www.virtualshareholdermeeting.com/LAZ2025. To participate in the virtual meeting, you will need the 16-digit control number included on your notice of internet availability of the proxy materials, proxy card or on the instructions that accompanied your proxy materials. If you have any questions about your control number, please contact the bank, broker, or other nominee that holds your shares. The virtual meeting will begin promptly at 9:00 a.m., Eastern Daylight Time. Online check-in will begin at 8:30 a.m., Eastern Daylight Time, and you should allow ample time for the online check-in procedures. Votes Needed Though our By-laws require that a nominee must receive a plurality of all the votes cast at a meeting of stockholders at which a quorum is present by holders of the shares present in attendance at the virtual meeting or represented by proxy at the meeting and entitled to vote on the election of directors, we have adopted a majority vote policy described in additional detail under “Election of Directors—Majority Vote Policy,” which generally requires that a director receive a majority of the votes cast in order to be elected in an “uncontested election of directors” (as defined below). See “Election of Directors—Majority Vote Policy” for additional information regarding our majority vote policy. Votes withheld from any director nominee will not be counted in such nominee’s favor. With respect to all other matters to be acted on at the meeting, the affirmative vote of a majority of the combined voting power of all of the shares of our common stock present or represented and entitled to vote on the subject matter is required. As permitted by Delaware law, we treat abstentions as present and entitled to vote