- Consumer/Retail
- Financial Institutions
- Financial Sponsors
- Healthcare
- Industrials
- Power and Energy/Infrastructure
- Real Estate, Gaming and Lodging
- Telecommunications, Media and Technology
Areas of Expertise
Mergers and Acquisitions
We evaluate potential targets or merger partners as well as financial and strategic alternatives. We advise on strategy, timing, structure, financing, pricing, and we assist in negotiating and closing transactions. In addition, we act as a dealer-manager in tender or exchange offers.
Divestitures
We advise on sales and auctions in both strategic and distressed situations. We may also advise on financial and strategic alternatives to a sale, such as recapitalizations, spin-offs, carve-outs, split-offs or tracking stocks.
Cross-Border
As many as 50% or more of the transactions we advise upon in a given year may be cross-border—and sometimes involve multiple jurisdictions. Our global offices are staffed with locally established professionals, expert at navigating local cultural, political, regulatory, and tax issues.
De-Mergers/Spinoffs
We help clients realize value from corporate assets, with innovative strategies for optimizing business portfolios. We advise on all aspects of execution, seeking success for the original company, for newly independent companies, and for shareholders.
Corporate Preparedness/Takeover Defense
Our dedicated corporate preparedness practice draws on all of Lazard's resources, advising on preventative and responsive measures to unsolicited activity such as hostile approaches or activist campaigns.
Independent/Special Committee
We represent independent directors and special committees with objective advice, insight into shareholder concerns, clear and authoritative analysis, and an unrivaled track record in sensitive boardroom situations.
Industry Expertise
Recent Transactions
Special Committee of Colony Credit Real Estate
$102 Million
Special Committee of the Board of Directors of Brookfield Property Partners
$71,760 Million
IK Investment Partners
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