---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001311370-25-000041"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "LAZ"
cik: "0001311370"
company_name: "Lazard, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-09-08T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T07:29:24.422110+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.55
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Lazard appoints Christopher Hogbin as CEO of asset management; Evan Russo transitions to advisor

## Summary
- Christopher Hogbin named CEO of Lazard Asset Management, effective December 2025; succeeds Evan Russo.
- Russo transitions to Senior Advisor to CEO Peter Orszag through June 2026 after two decades at Lazard.
- Hogbin was Global Head of Investments at AllianceBernstein for 20 years.
- Russo previously served as Lazard CFO and Co-Head of Capital Markets.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001311370-25-000041
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: LAZ
- cik: 0001311370
- company_name: Lazard, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-09-08T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.55
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1311370/000131137025000041/0001311370-25-000041-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1311370/000131137025000041/laz-20250903.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001311370-25-000041.txt

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