Company: LAZ
Filing Date: 2025-07-29
Form Type: 424B5
Source: 0001311370-25-000033
Chunk: 33

Company: Lazard, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-07-29
Form: 424B5
Chunk 33
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ated organization, government or any agency, instrumentality, or political subdivision thereof, or any other entity.

“Property” means, with respect to any person, any interest of such person in any kind of property or asset, whether real, personal or mixed, or tangible or intangible, including Capital Stock in, and other securities of, any other person.

“Significant Subsidiary” means any subsidiary that would be a “Significant Subsidiary” of Lazard Group within the meaning of Rule 1-02 under Regulation S-X promulgated by the SEC.

#### Merger, Consolidation or Sale of Assets
The indenture provides that Lazard Group shall not merge, consolidate or amalgamate with or into any other person (other than a merger of a wholly owned subsidiary into Lazard Group) or sell, transfer, assign, lease, convey, or otherwise dispose of all or substantially all its property in any one transaction or series of related transactions unless:

(a) Lazard Group shall be the surviving person (the “Surviving Person”) or the Surviving Person (if other than Lazard Group) formed by such merger, consolidation or amalgamation or to which such sale, transfer, assignment, lease, conveyance, or disposition is made shall be a corporation or limited liability company organized and existing under the laws of the United States, any State thereof, the District of Columbia, Australia, Bermuda, Canada, Japan, Sweden, the United Kingdom, or any country that is a member of the European Monetary Union and was a member of the European Monetary Union on January 1, 2004,

(b) the Surviving Person (if other than Lazard Group) expressly assumes, by supplemental indenture in form satisfactory to the Trustee, executed and delivered to the Trustee by such Surviving Person, the due and punctual payment of the principal of, and premium, if any, and interest on, all the notes, according to their tenor, and the due and punctual performance and observance of all the covenants and conditions of the indenture to be performed by Lazard Group,

(c) immediately before and immediately after giving effect to such transaction or series of related transactions, no default or event of default shall have occurred and be continuing, and

(d) Lazard Group shall deliver, or cause to be delivered, to the Trustee, an officers’ certificate and an opinion of counsel, each stating that such transaction and the supplemental indenture, if any, in respect thereto