Registration No. 333-            

 

 

 

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

 

FORM S-8

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

 

 

LAZARD LTD

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

 

 

Bermuda		98-0437848
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)		(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)

Clarendon House

2 Church Street

Hamilton HM 11, Bermuda

(441) 295-1422

(Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of registrant’s principal executive offices)

Lazard Ltd 2008 Incentive Compensation Plan

(Full title of the plan)

Scott D. Hoffman, Esq.

Lazard Ltd

30 Rockefeller Plaza

New York, New York 10020

(212) 632-6000

(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

Copies to:

Erik R. Tavzel, Esq.

Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP

Worldwide Plaza

825 Eighth Avenue

New York, NY 10019

(212) 474-1000

 

 

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, or a smaller reporting company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer” and “smaller reporting company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.

 

Large accelerated filer		x		Accelerated filer		¨
Non-accelerated filer		¨  (Do not check if a smaller reporting company)		Smaller reporting company		¨

 

 

CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE

 

Title of Each Class of Securities to be Registered		Amount to be Registered(1)		Proposed Maximum Offering Price Per Share(2)		Proposed Maximum Aggregate Offering Price(2)		Amount of Registration Fee(3)
Class A common stock, par value $0.01 per share		30,000,000		$42.17		$1,265,100,000		$162,944.88

(1)

In addition, pursuant to Rule 416 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), this Registration Statement also includes (i) such additional shares of common stock as may be required pursuant to the anti-dilution provisions of the Lazard Ltd 2008 Incentive Compensation Plan (the “Plan”) and (ii) an indeterminate amount of interests to be offered or sold pursuant to the Plan.

(2)	Estimated pursuant to Rule 457(h) and 457(c) under the Securities Act, solely for the purpose of computing the registration fee, based on the average of the high and low prices of the securities being registered hereby on the New York Stock Exchange on February 3, 2014.

(3)

Pursuant to General Instruction E to Form S-8, a filing fee is only being paid with respect to the registration of additional securities under the Plan. A Registration Statement on Form S-8 has been filed previously on November 4, 2008 (File No. 333-154977) for the existing securities under the Plan.

 

 

 

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EXPLANATORY STATEMENT

This Registration Statement is filed pursuant to General Instruction E to Form S-8. The contents of the Registration Statement on Form S-8 previously filed on November 4, 2008 (File No. 333-154977) are incorporated herein by reference and made a part hereof.

This Registration Statement on Form S-8 is filed by Lazard Ltd, a Bermuda exempted company (the “Company”), to register an additional 30,000,000 shares of the Company’s Class A common stock, par value $0.01 per share, which may be awarded under the Lazard Ltd 2008 Incentive Compensation Plan.

Part II

INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT

Item 8. Exhibits.

 

5.1		Opinion of Conyers Dill & Pearman Limited.
23.1		Consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm.
23.2		Consent of Conyers Dill & Pearman Limited (included in Exhibit 5.1).
24.1		Power of Attorney (included on signature page to this Registration Statement).
99.1		Lazard Ltd 2008 Incentive Compensation Plan (incorporated by reference to Annex B to the Company’s Definitive Proxy Statement on Schedule 14A (File No. 001-32492) filed on March 24, 2008).

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, Lazard Ltd certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of New York, State of New York, on February 10, 2014.

 

POWER OF ATTORNEY

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below hereby constitutes and appoints Scott D. Hoffman and Matthieu Bucaille, and each of them (with full power to act alone), his or her true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for him or her in his or her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any and all amendments, including post-effective amendments, of and supplements to this registration statement, and to file the same with all exhibits thereto and other documents in connection therewith, with the Commission, granting unto any such attorney-in-fact and agent full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, to all intents and purposes and as fully as they might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that such attorneys-in-fact and agents, or any of their respective substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, this registration statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.

 

Signature		Title		Date
/s/  Kenneth M. Jacobs		Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and		February 10, 2014
Kenneth M. Jacobs		Director (Principal Executive Officer)
/s/  Matthieu Bucaille		Chief Financial Officer		February 10, 2014
Matthieu Bucaille		(Principal Financial Officer)
/s/  Dominick Ragone		Chief Accounting Officer		February 10, 2014
Dominick Ragone
/s/  Andrew M. Alper		Director		February 10, 2014
Andrew M. Alper
/s/  Ashish Bhutani		Director		February 10, 2014
Ashish Bhutani
/s/  Steven J. Heyer		Director		February 10, 2014
Steven J. Heyer
/s/  Sylvia Jay		Director		February 10, 2014
Sylvia Jay
/s/  Philip A. Laskawy		Director		February 10, 2014
Philip A. Laskawy

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/s/  Laurent Mignon		Director		February 10, 2014
Laurent Mignon
/s/  Richard D. Parsons		Director		February 10, 2014
Richard D. Parsons
/s/  Hal S. Scott		Director		February 10, 2014
Hal S. Scott
/s/  Michael J. Turner		Director		February 10, 2014
Michael J. Turner

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AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, this registration statement has been signed below by the undersigned as the duly authorized representative of Lazard Ltd in the United States on February 10, 2014.

 

/s/  Scott D. Hoffman

Scott D. Hoffman

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EXHIBIT INDEX

 

5.1		Opinion of Conyers Dill & Pearman Limited.
23.1		Consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm.
23.2		Consent of Conyers Dill & Pearman Limited (included in Exhibit 5.1).
24.1		Power of Attorney (included on signature page to this registration statement).
99.1		Lazard Ltd 2008 Incentive Compensation Plan (incorporated by reference to Annex B to the Company’s Definitive Proxy Statement on Schedule 14A (File No. 001-32492) filed on March 24, 2008).