Lazard is a financial advisory and asset management firm in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Asia Pacific. Its operations are structured into two segments, Financial Advisory and Asset Management.
The Financial Advisory segment offers financial advisory services, such as mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, shareholder, sovereign, geopolitical, and strategic advisory services restructuring and liability management, and capital raising and placement services.
This segment offers its services to corporate, partnership, institutional, government, sovereign, and individual clients to various industry areas, including consumers and retail.
Its portfolio also includes financial institutions, financial sponsors, healthcare and life sciences, industrials, media, entertainment, and sports, power, energy, and infrastructure, real estate, technology, and telecom and digital infrastructure.
The Asset Management segment offers a range of investment solutions. Its portfolio also includes 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. Incorporated in 1848, Lazard is headquartered in New York, New York.