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                • Thursday, 14 September, 2023
                  Share price and revenues can double this decade, new Lazard chief tells staff

                  Peter Orszag pledges to take steps to help 175-year-old company compete with nimbler rivals

                • Thursday, 24 August, 2023
                  Lazard chair in Sweden charged with aggravated bribery

                  Case relates to 2015 acquisition of Swiss vacuum business by Atlas Copco

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                • Friday, 23 June, 2023
                  The Top LineSujeet Indap
                  Is Lazard a relic of a bygone banking age?

                  One measure of the bank’s consistency has been its dividend levels in the near two decades since it listed

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                • Wednesday, 21 June, 2023
                  Due Diligence
                  Should Lazard go private? Premium content

                  Plus, Alibaba names its newest leader and EU antitrust cops set their sights on Adobe’s $20bn takeover of Figma

                • Tuesday, 20 June, 2023
                  Lex
                  Lazard/ADQ: public stockholders once a solution, now are the roadblock Premium content

                  Venerable investment bank left with few options following ending of talks with Abu Dhabi’s sovereign wealth fund

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                • Tuesday, 20 June, 2023
                  Financial services
                  Abu Dhabi’s ADQ wealth fund held talks to acquire Lazard

                  Move underlines oil-rich emirate’s ambitions to acquire a western financial services company

                  Sheikh Tahnoon and Ken Jacobs
                • Sunday, 28 May, 2023
                  News in-depth
                  Peter Orszag: the ‘scholar-banker’ aiming to restore Lazard’s fortunes

                  Appointment of wunderkind economist who served in Obama cabinet marks grand experiment for storied investment bank

                  Peter Orszag
                • Friday, 26 May, 2023
                  Lex
                  Lazard: CEO tasked with breathing new life into storied franchise Premium content

                  Peter Orszag to help push financial advisory through tricky global economy

                  Peter Orszag, Lazard chief executive
                • Friday, 26 May, 2023
                  Lazard appoints Peter Orszag as chief executive

                  Former adviser to Barack Obama will take top job in October as investment bank confronts slump in dealmaking

                  Peter Orszag
                • Tuesday, 23 May, 2023
                  Due Diligence
                  Greenhill and Lazard: investment banking pioneers at a crossroads Premium content

                  Plus, Allen & Overy and Shearman & Sterling’s transatlantic pact and western banks’ China struggles

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                • Thursday, 18 May, 2023
                  Ken Jacobs expected to stand down as CEO of Lazard

                  Head of investment banking arm Peter Orszag set to be named as replacement

                  Ken Jacobs
                • Tuesday, 2 May, 2023
                  LexInvestment Banking
                  M&A bankers: deal drought makes cost increases tough to justify Premium content

                  A cynical view would be that both austerity and opportunism are excuses to sell when deal flow is weak

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                • Friday, 28 April, 2023
                  Lazard to cut 10% of staff to contain costs amid dealmaking chill

                  Investment bank’s CEO admits M&A activity has ‘really deteriorated’, forcing it to ‘take action’

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                • Tuesday, 21 March, 2023
                  First Republic
                  First Republic hires Lazard to explore options after share price tumbles

                  US regional bank has been among the hardest hit in the fallout from Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse

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                • Friday, 10 February, 2023
                  The Top LineAnne-Sylvaine Chassany
                  Lazard’s family legacy is gone, the Rothschilds fight on

                  Two European banking dynasties show the struggle to reconcile family control and growth

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                • Tuesday, 24 January, 2023
                  Lazard expands venture banking unit as part of private capital push

                  The investment bank is seeking to grow beyond advising on large-scale mergers and acquisitions

                  Peter Orszag
                • Thursday, 13 October, 2022
                  Lazard sets up geopolitical risk unit to capitalise on global volatility

                  Boutique investment bank hopes to compete with traditional consultancies such as Kissinger Associates

                  Jami Miscik
                • Friday, 24 June, 2022
                  ObituaryMichel David-Weill
                  Michel David-Weill, investment banker, 1932—2022

                  The former Lazard chairman was known for his aversion to Wall Street fads and his ability to spot banking talent

                  Michel David-Weill at Lazard’s offices in Paris in 1991
                • Thursday, 21 April, 2022
                  US & Canadian companies
                  Activism booms as next-gen Icahns and Ackmans emerge

                  2022 has started with an unusually aggressive flurry of campaigns against companies.

                • Friday, 4 February, 2022
                  Bulb Energy
                  Bulb Energy administrators prepare to appoint Lazard to find buyer

                  UK energy supplier was bailed out with £1.7bn taxpayer loan after rise in wholesale prices

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                • Sunday, 19 September, 2021
                  Utilities
                  UK energy supplier Bulb in talks to secure new funding sources

                  Challenger company working with Lazard as record wholesale prices threaten sector

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                • Tuesday, 6 October, 2020
                  Due Diligence
                  The hedge fund that took on Wall Street’s powerful machinery Premium content

                  Marble Ridge Capital’s mis-steps cost it rare chance to savour a triumph in Neiman Marcus battle

                • Tuesday, 7 July, 2020
                  News in-depthInvestment Banking
                  What does an M&A boutique do when the deals dry up?

                  The heads of independent Wall Street firms on how they are adapting to a coronavirus world

                • Tuesday, 2 June, 2020
                  News in-depthMining
                  Mining remains a bright spot in M&A gloom

                  Most large mines are operating without interruption as China continues to suck in their products

                • Wednesday, 27 May, 2020
                  African economy
                  Zambia hires Lazard to advise on $11bn debt burden

                  Nation seen as next big test for whether debt-distressed countries can secure deals

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