Advisory Services
Lazard provides global perspective and global quality transaction execution skills, together with a deep local market knowledge and experience.
Lazard provides advisory services in relation to a wide range of corporate situations, including:
- strategic analysis
- mergers and acquisitions
- divestitures
- IPOs and capital raisings
- debt structuring
- corporate restructurings
- public market takeovers
- valuations
- general corporate advice (eg employee incentive plan structures).
Lazard's advisory business model has been built on the principle of dedicated senior level attention to clients in order to ensure the highest quality of service. The firm focuses on a limited number of clients, for whom every assignment is considered very important. This principle is applied across all of Lazard's operations.
All of Lazard's advisory services rely on the following fundamentals:
- developing a deep understanding of the business
- a strategic approach to corporate transactions, and focusing on needs and objectives
- rigorous and disciplined financial and business analysis
- a long-term view and honest advice – often the most valuable advice is to not engage in a particular transaction.
Lazard has no inherent conflicts of interest as it is not engaged in securities underwriting or trading and is not engaged in any brokerage business with financial institutions from a sale and trading standpoint.