Lazard Ltd

Royal Dutch Shell has informed Tunisian authorities it will hand back upstream concessions and leave the country next year as it turns its focus to renewable energy, Rania Marzouki a senior official in the energy ministry, told Reuters.

Investment bank Lazard Ltd said on Friday its first-quarter profit narrowly missed Street estimates, as higher spending and a weaker-than-expected performance in its corporate business offset strength from record dealmaking activity.

Investment bank Lazard Ltd reported a nearly 52% surge in first-quarter profit on Friday, as record deal-making activity powered its financial advisory business.

Two special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) backed by investment bank Lazard Ltd are aiming to raise as much as $500 million in initial public offerings, according to regulatory filings on Monday.

Investment bank Lazard Ltd reported a 147% surge in fourth-quarter profit on Friday, powered by growth in its financial advisory business as corporate dealmaking activity ended the year on a high.

Investment bank Lazard Ltd reported a nearly 147% surge in fourth-quarter profit on Friday, powered by growth in its financial advisory business as corporate dealmaking activity ended the year on a high.

Investment bank Lazard Ltd said on Friday it is reorganising its Australia operations, retaining its asset management arm in the country in-house but handing over mergers and acquisitions advisory services to a new, "affiliated" firm.

A blank-check firm backed by investment bank Lazard Ltd is aiming to raise $500 million in a U.S. initial public offering (IPO), a regulatory filing showed on Monday.

A joint venture comprising Air Products, ACWA Power and NEOM has hired financial firm Lazard to advise it on a planned $5 billion hydrogen project in the NEOM high-tech business zone in Saudi Arabia, sources said.

Lazard Ltd has hired restructuring banker Sam Whittaker from PJT Partners to oversee negotiations between companies and their creditors across Europe, the Middle East and Africa as a second wave of COVID-19 leaves many businesses fighting for survival.

Investment bank Lazard Ltd <LAZ.N> comfortably beat quarterly profit expectations on Thursday thanks to a recovery in deal-making activity, although weakness in its asset management arm weighed.

Investment bank Lazard Ltd posted a 14% drop in its third-quarter profit on Thursday as subdued dealmaking activity due to the COVID-19 pandemic continued to weigh on earnings.

Suriname has tapped French investment bank Lazard Ltd to help the South American nation refinance its foreign debt, President Chan Santokhi said on Thursday.

Cerberus and a rival investment firm have told HSBC <HSBA.L> they would buy its French retail arm for a symbolic one euro provided the British bank ploughs more than 500 million euros ($582.70 million) into the business, sources told Reuters.

Spanish regional telecom operator Euskaltel <EKTL.MC> has hired investment bank Lazard <LAZ.N> to explore a potential sale of its broadband network, Expansion newspaper reported on Friday, citing unidentified market sources.

Investment bank Lazard Ltd <LAZ.N> on Friday reported an 8% fall in second-quarter adjusted earnings per share, a smaller drop than analysts had expected, as the slowdown in corporate dealmaking due to the COVID-19 pandemic weighed.

More governments could be forced into negotiations with creditors this year as the coronavirus crisis piles further pressure onto countries already struggling with debt repayments, executives at investment bank Lazard said.

Activist investors demanded more change at European and Japanese companies in the first half of 2020 while giving U.S. companies a pass, for now, new data from investment bank Lazard show.

Serie A has picked Lazard to weigh the private equity bids for its broadcast rights business, two sources close to the matter said, as Italy's top-flight soccer league looks at ways to weather the financial storm triggered by the coronavirus.