Lazard Has Announced Principal Offering
Lazard has announced principal offering
Lazard has announced that one of its subsidiaries Lazard Group LLC, also known simply as the Lazard Group, is commencing principal offer of senior notes due in 2020. The offer will be worth $500 million and the notes will be issued by Lazard Group. They will be offered pursuant to an effective shelf registration statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, they will be senior unsecured obligations of Lazard Group. In addition to the notes offering the Lazard is starting a cash tender offer. This offer will be for all its outstanding 7.125% of senior notes due May 15th, 2015. With these existing notes, Lazard Group expects to exercise its right to redeem all existing notes not purchased in the tender off at a make-whole price. The group intends to use the profits from the notees offering along with cash to purchase or redeem all of its outstanding existing 2015 notes and to pay fees and expenses related. There are a number of groups acting as dealer managers for the tender offer, they include: Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Goldman, Sachs & Co., and Lazard Frères & Co. LLC.
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George Bilicic new lead Lazard Ltd. investment banker in ChicagoTwo senior bankers on the deal-making side of Lazard Ltd.'s advisory business have exited the Chicago office earlier this year. In response Lazard has send George Bilicic Jr. to take control and reinvigorate the company office in Chicago. This is Mr. Bilicic second stint working with the Chicago office. He first started supervising the office remotely in 2006. When asked about his previous experience Mr. Bilicic said, "The chief lesson learned from that was that you couldn't be a suitcase banker and be successful with companies in the Midwest." In this round of work Mr. Bilicic is moving to the windy city with his family. He has never lived in Chicago before and plans to expand business by becoming active in city business as well as the civic scene, joining organization boards in the city and having his bankers to the same.
While Bilicic has not stated any specific boards or charities he plans to participate in his direct superior, Lazard CEO Kenneth Jacobs is a member of the board of trustees for the University of Chicago. Lazard is a midsize international financial advisory and faces competition from Larger entities such as Goldman Sachs Group Inc. The company has about 2,400 employees world wide and aims to cut around 250 this year while expanding growth. Lazard earning nearly doubled in the second quarter with $59.9 million. This is in part due to its jump in deals in its consumer, health care services and technology areas.
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