Lazard is a preeminent financial advisory and asset management firm. We have been multinational since our founding in 1848. Today we operate in 42 cities across 27 countries. FINANCIAL ADVISORY Lazard is the leading global independent advisor offering a wide array of financial advisory services to corporate, partnership, institutional, government, sovereign and individual clients around the world. Our services include: • M&A and Strategic Advisory • Sovereign Advisory • Middle Market Advisory • Restructuring • Capital Markets and Capital Structure • Private Fund Advisory Advisory ASSET MANAGEMENT Lazard is a world-class asset manager providing clients with a broad range of global investment solutions and investment management services in equity and fixed income strategies, alternative investments and private equity funds. Our clients include corporations, public funds, sovereign entities, endowments and foundations, labor union funds, financial intermediaries and private clients. Our investment solutions include traditional and alternative strategies for equity and fixed income securities, in global, multi-regional, local, and emerging market portfolios. Our Asset Management business includes: • Lazard Asset Management • Private Equity • Lazard Frères Gestion KEY STATISTICS EXECUTIVE OFFICERS • Annual 2015 revenue: $2,354 million • Kenneth M. Jacobs, Chairman and CEO • Assets Under Management: $192 billion (as • Ashish Bhutani, a Vice Chairman of Lazard of 06/30/2016) and CEO of Lazard Asset Management • Employees: 2,610 (as of 12/31/2015) • Matthieu Bucaille, Chief Financial Officer • Principal executive offices: New York, Paris, • Scott D. Hoffman, General Counsel London • Alexander F. Stern, Chief Operating Officer • Lazard Ltd ticker symbol: NYSE:LAZ and CEO of Financial Advisory MEDIA CONTACTS: INVESTOR CONTACT: Judi Frost Mackey +1 212 632-1428 Armand Sadoughi [email protected] +1 212 632-6358 [email protected] Richard Creswell +44 20 7187 2305 [email protected] .