---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001628280-25-037248"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "LAZ"
cik: "0001311370"
company_name: "Lazard, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-08-01T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T21:46:30.939924+00:00"
event_type: "debt"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Lazard Group closes $300M 5.625% notes due 2035; launches tender for 2027 notes

## Summary
- Issued $300M aggregate principal of 5.625% Senior Notes due 2035 (CUSIP 52107QAH8).
- Proceeds to repurchase all outstanding 3.625% Senior Notes due 2027 via cash tender offer.
- Total consideration for 2027 notes set at $991.89 per $1,000 principal (spread +30 bps over UST).
- Tender offer expires August 1, 2025 at 5:00 PM New York time, unless extended or terminated.
- Notes are senior unsecured obligations of Lazard Group, fully and unconditionally guaranteed by Lazard, Inc.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001628280-25-037248
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: LAZ
- cik: 0001311370
- company_name: Lazard, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-08-01T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: debt
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 2.03, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1311370/000162828025037248/0001628280-25-037248-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1311370/000162828025037248/laz-20250728.htm

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## Key facts
- Debt Financings
  Lazard, Inc. incurred senior notes of $300,000,000 at 5.625% maturing August 1, 2035.
  - Instrument: senior notes
  - Principal: $300,000,000
  - Rate: 5.625%
  - Maturity: August 1, 2035
  - Event: incurrence
  source text: completed its previously announced offering of an aggregate principal amount of $300,000,000 of Lazard Group’s 5.625% Senior Notes due 2035
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1311370/000162828025037248/0001628280-25-037248-index.htm

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