Lazard has been the last of its breed of large, privately held banking partnerships.
"This is one of our top picks, " says Joel Sendek, a biotech analyst at Lazard.
But the battle for Lazard has proven to be among the more contentious in recent memory.
Advisors to the investment consortium were led by Lazard and included JPMorgan and Wells Fargo.
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Lazard added 4 million shares to the offering, for a total of 34.1 million.
Assets: Family owns part of, and controls, Lazard's New York, Paris and London houses.
Lazard has always specialised in advising clients rather than offering a full range of investment-banking services.
Lazard, as VentureBeat reported, estimated last week that Pandaria only sold 600, 000-700, 000 physical copies.
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If Perella were to join Lazard, it would mark his reunion with Wasserstein after more than ten years apart.
He has asked bankers at Lazard, an investment bank, to find a buyer for the paper.
Lazard's luster as a merger advisory shop will remain only so long as its top rainmakers stay.
Lazard Chairman and CEO Ken Jacobs addressed the issue at length on a call with analysts Monday.
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More bad news for the likes of Wachovia, Citigroup, Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, Lazard, UBS and others.
He studied public administration in the U.S. and worked for investment bank Lazard Freres for two years.
At Lazard, individual pay has always been highly dependent on the business brought in by each partner.
However, 2.7 million is a much larger figure than previously anticipated by investment bank Lazard Capital Markets.
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They drove Lazard shares down 6.6% this week through Tuesday, even as financial stocks rallied as a group.
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For example, The MDE Group invests in the SteelPath MLP Alpha Fund and the Lazard Emerging Income Fund.
Similar transfers, taking a far less sinuous path, involved accounts at Merrill, UBS, Lazard, Citigroup and Morgan Stanley.
It is the sort of dysfunctional mess that Lazard is used to encountering and overcoming among its clients.
Over the past 12 months, Kodak's financial advisor, Lazard, has conducted an extensive marketing process for these assets.
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Analysts said the structure of the deal and the outlook of Lazard's business model leave a lot to chance.
With so much debt, Lazard sticks out among the firms that specialize in offering merger and other strategic advice.
Investment banking boutiques like Lazard and Evercore fattened on bankruptcies, reorganizations and restructuring troubled properties like AIG and CIT.
Lazard's Bruce Wasserstein rang the opening bell on his debut day and did a lap around the trading floor.
In his battle against Time Warner last year, CarlIcahnCarl Icahn enlisted Lazard's help.
No wonder that money managers like Pimco and Lazard are capitalizing on it.
Things were much easier when he applied to his first internship, at Lazard.
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The ownership structure of Lazard is so complex that even senior bankers at the firm do not understand it.
The merger market and restructurings have heated up recently, but Lazard will have to hope that it stays that way.
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