Lazard Ltd. (NYSE:LAZ) Q1 2023 Earnings Conference Call April 28, 2023 8:00 AM ET
Company Participants
Alexandra Deignan - Head of Investor Relations and Corporate Sustainability
Mary Ann Betsch - Chief Financial Officer
Kenneth Jacobs - Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Evan Russo - Chief Executive Officer, Asset Management
Peter Orszag - Chief Financial Officer of Financial Advisory
Conference Call Participants
Brennan Hawken - UBS
James Yaro - Goldman Sachs
Devin Ryan - JMP Securities
Steven Chubak - Wolfe Research
Matt Moon - KBW
Ryan Kenny - Morgan Stanley
Operator
Good morning and welcome to Lazard's First Quarter 2023 Earnings Conference Call. This call is being recorded. [Operator Instructions]
At this time, I will turn the call over to Alexandra Deignan, Lazard's Head of Investor Relations and Corporate Sustainability. Please go ahead.
Alexandra Deignan
Thank you, Britney. Good morning, and welcome to Lazard's earnings call for the first quarter of 2023. I'm Alexandra Deignan, Head of Investor Relations and Corporate Sustainability. In addition to today's audio comments, we have posted our earnings release and an investor presentation 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 or achievements 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 these forward-looking statements.
Today's discussion also includes certain non-GAAP financial measures that we believe are meaningful when evaluating the company's performance. A reconciliation of these non-GAAP financial measures to the comparable GAAP measure is provided in our earnings release and investor presentation.
Hosting our call today are Kenneth Jacobs, Lazard's Chairman and Chief Executive Officer; and Mary Ann Betsch, Lazard's Chief Financial Officer. Mary Ann will start the discussion with an overview of our financial results, then Ken will provide his perspective on the outlook for our business. After that, Ken and Mary Ann will be joined by Peter Orszag, Chief Executive Officer of Financial Advisory; and Evan Russo, Chief Executive Officer of Asset Management as they will open the call to questions.