A Global Firm Built Over Generations on a Foundation of Client Service

A Business Founded on a Simple and Powerful Model

Lazard is one of the most respected names in global financial services, standing for excellence, integrity and innovation on behalf of clients.

Founded in 1848, today our mission remains the same: To provide sophisticated and differentiated advice and investment solutions, custom-tailored for our clients.  

View our 2024 Annual Letter to Shareholders to learn more about how we fulfilled our mission to deliver excellence in advisory and investment solutions for our clients over the past year.

You can also read more about our future ambitions and long-term growth strategy in Lazard 2030: Beyond What the World Sees Today, a note from Lazard’s CEO and Chairman Peter Orszag.


Lazard stands for sophisticated, differentiated and custom-tailored advice that solves problems and creates solutions for our clients, complemented by a fundamentally-driven investment approach to asset management, delivered globally by extraordinarily talented people working together, and representing the highest standards of integrity.

Peter Orszag Smiling in Studio
Peter Orszag CEO and Chairman

Careers at Lazard

At Lazard, the individual matters. Our firm was built on the premise that a multicultural and diverse talent pool can serve a global clientele best.

Just as importantly, Lazard is a firm where you can come up with great ideas, and then apply them.

We have opportunities for talented individuals to grow and develop at every stage of their career.


Latest Transactions

October 10, 2025
Germany

Lazard acted as exclusive debt advisor to SHS – Stahl-Holding-Saar on the €1.7bn financing package, complemented by the largest individual state grant awarded by the Federal Republic of Germany in the amount of €2.6bn

$1.9 Billion

October 08, 2025
United Arab Emirates, Switzerland, Germany, Singapore

Partners Group and a consortium of minority investors, including GIC, TPG Rise Climate, and Mubadala, to invest in next growth phase at Techem

$7.8 Billion

October 07, 2025
Canada, Switzerland

GF signs agreement to divest its iron foundry operation as part of strategic transformation

$52.8 Million

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