Lazard is a pre-eminent global investment bank committed to helping its clients - corporations, partnerships, institutions, governments and individuals - achieve their strategic and financial goals. Lazard\'s success results from its focus on providing clients with superior quality advice and developing creative solutions to complex problems. This philosophy is embedded in Lazard\'s emphasis on competing through intellectual rather than financial capital and a tradition of privacy and independence. Lazard prides itself on its global reach, while at the same time maintaining a distinct local market presence in various locations throughout Europe, North America and Asia Pacific.