Tom Howard
Managing Director
Tom Howard joined Lazard in 2004 and is currently Managing Director and Co-Head of European Debt Advisory.
Tom has extensive expertise in relation to strategically critical, event-driven, or complex financing assignments across the credit risk spectrum. Tom has successfully advised on over EUR 100 billion of financing assignments across multiple jurisdictions on behalf of clients ranging across FTSE 100, FTSE 250, European or multi-national companies as well as numerous private or private equity-backed and infrastructure clients.
Tom has long-standing relationships with key decision-makers across the private and public credit market investor community providing clients a unique independent product insight and deep access to all debt capital pools.
Tom is skilled in complex creditor and stakeholder negotiations having advised on numerous covenant amendment/waivers and more fundamental balance sheet recapitalisations.
University of Edinburgh, MA (Hons) in Classics.
Our offices in the United Kingdom
Lazard's first London office opened in 1877 on Old Broad Street, near the Bank of England and London's historic stock exchange, placing the firm's U.K. home at the meeting point of British capital, international trade, and the flows of finance.
The U.K. remains one of the largest operations in Lazard's global network, working closely with the firm's teams across continental Europe and the U.S., and in 2025 the firm moved its U.K. headquarters to 20 Manchester Square.
London continues to offer a single, integrated market where sovereign capital, listed companies, and global investors can flourish. From here, Lazard advises clients on a full range of strategic matters including mergers and acquisitions, restructuring and liability management, debt and capital structure, and capital raising. More than 175 years after the firm's founding, Lazard's client relationships in the U.K. still rest on a foundation of independent advice, discretion, and long-standing trust.