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Together with White & Case, Lazard proposes a simple fix that would ensure that partial guarantees instruments can be easily dealt with in restructuring contexts, without affecting their attractiveness ex ante.


June 12, 2025

The Preferred Creditor Status glut – The search for loss absorption in Africa

Lazard's Policy Paper analyses the delicate trade-off between the need to provide debt relief to over-indebted countries and the need to protect as much as possible international public lenders with government shareholders and a policy mandate.

January 29, 2025

The 2020-2025 Sovereign Debt Crisis: What have we learnt and what lies ahead?

In this policy brief, Lazard's Sovereign Advisory team reflects on the last five years, explains what they have learnt and offers some thoughts about what lies ahead.