Lazard LTD. (LAZ) Q1 2025 Earnings Call

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We stand by. We're about to begin. Good morning, everyone, and welcome to Lazard's first quarter 2025 earnings conference call. This call is being recorded. Currently, all participants are in a listen-only mode. Following the remarks, we will conduct a question and answer session. Instructions will be provided at that time. If anyone should require assistance during the call today, please press star key followed by zero on your telephone keypad. At this time, I will now turn the conference over to Alexandra Degnan, Lazard's Head of Investor Relations and Treasury. Please go ahead, ma'am. Alexandra Degnan Thank you, Bill. Good morning, everyone, and welcome to Lazard's earnings call for the first quarter of 2025. I'm Alexandra Degnan, Head of Investor Relations and Treasury. In addition to today's audio comments, we've posted our earnings release on our website. A replay of this call will also be available on our website later today. Before we begin, let me remind you that we may make forward-looking statements about our business and performance. There are important factors that could cause our actual results, level of activity, performance, achievements, or other events to differ materially from those expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements, including but not limited to those factors discussed in the company's SEC filings, which you can access on our website. Lazard assumes no responsibility for the accuracy or completeness of these forward-looking statements and assumes no duty to update them. Today's discussion also includes certain non-GAAP financial measures that we believe are meaningful when evaluating the company's performance. Reconciliation of these non-GAAP financial measures to be comparable GAAP measures is provided in our earnings release ...