Jason Bernhard
Global Chief Operating Officer of Financial Advisory
Jason Bernhard is a Managing Director at Lazard and Global Chief Operating Officer of Financial Advisory.
He has held a wide range of senior management roles while at Lazard including Global Co-Head of Healthcare Investment Banking, Director of Lazard Canada, Ltd. and co-founded Lazard’s biotechnology and later its healthcare services practices. Jason is CEO of Lazard Freres & Co. LLC, the firm’s FINRA regulated broker-dealer, a member of the firm’s Management Committee and the Global Executive Committee among others.
Since joining Lazard in 1997, Jason has been involved in many of the firm’s most complex healthcare advisory assignments. He brings a unique perspective to Lazard’s advisory practice, having spent the majority of his career working with a broad range of healthcare clients. His transaction experience includes domestic and cross border mergers, acquisitions, leveraged buy-outs, restructurings, and capital raises, as well as contested situations. He has also served as a Trustee of one of New York-Presbyterian’s largest affiliates, The Brooklyn Hospital Center.
Jason began his career in investment banking in 1988 in Merrill Lynch’s Mergers & Acquisitions Group working in New York, London and Hong Kong.
University of Pennsylvania, BA cum laude
University of Pennsylvania, MBA The Wharton School
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