Lazard Ltd

Lazard Ltd together with its subsidiaries operates as a financial advisory and asset management firm in North America Europe Asia Australia and Central and South America. It operates in two segments Financial Advisory and Asset Management. The Financial Advisory segment offers various financial advisory services regarding mergers and acquisitions restructurings capital advisory shareholder advisory capital raising sovereign advisory and other strategic advisory matters. This segment serves corporate partnership institutional government sovereign and individual clients across various industry areas including consumers financial institutions healthcare and life sciences industrials power and energy/infrastructure and real estate as well as technology telecommunication and media and entertainment. The Asset Management segment offers a range of investment solutions and investment and wealth management services in equity and fixed income strategies; asset allocation strategies; and alternative investments and private equity funds to corporations public funds sovereign entities endowments and foundations labor funds financial intermediaries and private clients. Lazard Ltd was founded in 1848 and is based in Hamilton Bermuda.