Lazard to Announce Third-Quarter and Nine-Month 2009 Results

The press release will be available on Lazard's website at www.lazard.com.

As previously communicated, Lazard hosts investor conference calls twice a year to review its first-half and full-year results. Accordingly, Lazard will hold its next investor conference call after the release of the company's full-year 2009 results.

Lazard, one of the world's preeminent financial advisory and asset management firms, operates from 39 cities across 24 countries in North America, Europe, Asia, Australia, Central and South America. With origins dating back to 1848, the firm provides advice on mergers and acquisitions, strategic matters, restructuring and capital structure, capital raising and corporate finance, as well as asset management services to corporations, partnerships, institutions, governments, and individuals. For more information on Lazard, please visit www.lazard.com.

Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements

This press release contains "forward-looking statements." In some cases, you can identify these statements by forward-looking words such as "may", "might", "will", "should", "expect", "plan", "anticipate", "believe", "estimate", "predict", "potential" or "continue", and the negative of these terms and other comparable terminology. These forward-looking statements are not historical facts but instead represent only our belief regarding future results, many of which, by their nature, are inherently uncertain and outside of our control. There are important factors that could cause our actual results, level of activity, performance or achievements to differ materially from the results, level of activity, performance or achievements expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements.

These factors include, but are not limited to, those discussed in our Annual Report on Form 10-K under Item 1A "Risk Factors," and also disclosed from time to time in reports on Forms 10-Q and 8-K including the following:

-- A decline in general economic conditions or the global financial markets;

-- Losses caused by financial or other problems experienced by third parties;

-- Losses due to unidentified or unanticipated risks;

-- A lack of liquidity, i.e., ready access to funds, for use in our businesses; and

-- Competitive pressure.

Lazard Ltd is committed to providing timely and accurate information to the investing public, consistent with our legal and regulatory obligations. To that end, Lazard and its operating companies use their websites to convey information about their businesses, including the anticipated release of quarterly financial results, quarterly financial, statistical and business-related information, and the posting of updates of assets under management in various hedge funds and mutual funds and other investment products managed by Lazard Asset Management LLC and its subsidiaries. Monthly updates of these funds will be posted to the Lazard Asset Management website (www.lazardnet.com) on the third business day following the end of each month. Investors can link to Lazard and its operating company websites through www.lazard.com.

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SOURCE: Lazard Ltd

Lazard Ltd 
Media: 
Judi Frost Mackey, +1 212-632-1428 
judi.mackey@lazard.com 
or 
Richard Creswell, +44 207 187 2305 
richard.creswell@lazard.com 
or 
Investors: 
Michael J. Castellano, +1 212-632-8262 
Chief Financial Officer 
or 
Investor Relations, +1 212-632-2685 / 1 877-266-8601 
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