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EX-4.1 5 dex41.htm FORM OF SPECIMEN CERTIFICATE FOR CLASS A COMMON STOCK Form of Specimen Certificate for Class A common stock

Exhibit 4.1

 

[FORM OF STOCK CERTIFICATE]

 

 

Common Stock Number

      

Common Stock Shares

LZ

   [LAZARD LOGO]  
    Lazard Ltd    
Incorporated Under the Laws of Bermuda

Transferable in

the City of New York

      

See Reverse Side for

Certain Definitions

 

       

CUSIP G54050 10 2

This Certifies That        
Is the Owner of        

 

FULLY PAID AND NON-ASSESSABLE COMMON SHARES, $0.01 PAR VALUE, OF

 

LAZARD LTD

 

transferable on the books of the Company by the holder hereof in person or by Attorney upon surrender of this certificate properly endorsed. This certificate is not valid unless countersigned by the Transfer Agent and Registrar.

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the said Company has caused this certificate to be signed by facsimile signatures of its duly authorized officers.

 

Dated:

 

[Lazard Ltd Corporate Seal]

 

      
Chief Financial Officer       Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

 

Countersigned and Registered:

THE BANK OF NEW YORK

TRANSFER AGENT AND REGISTRAR

 

BY:

    
   
    AUTHORIZED SIGNATURE

LAZARD LTD

 

The following abbreviations, when used in the inscription on the face of this certificate, shall be construed as though they were written out in full according to applicable laws or regulations:

 

TEN COM    – as tenants in common    UNIF GIFT MIN ACT   

–                       Custodian                 

        (Cust)                           (Minor)

TEN ENT    – as tenants by the entireties        

under Uniform Gifts to Minors Act
                                                         

                            (State)

JT TEN   

– as joint tenants with right

of survivorship and not as

tenants in common

          
          UNIF TRF MIN ACT   

–               Custodian (until age         )

    (Cust)

                                 under Uniform Transfers   (Minor)
              

to Minors Act                                          

                                     (State)

 

Additional abbreviations may also be used although not in the above list.

 

For value received,                                                                                                hereby sell(s), assign(s) and

transfer(s) unto

 

Please Insert Social Security Number or Other Identifying Number of Assignee

 

 

(Please Print or Typewrite Name and Address, Including Zip Code of Assignee)

 

 
 

Shares of the capital stock represented by the within Certificate, and do(es) hereby irrevocably

 

constitute and appoint                                                                                                                                                                                 

Attorney to transfer the said shares on the books of the within named Company with full power of substitution in the premises.

 

Dated            
   
     
           

NOTICE: THE SIGNATURE TO THIS

ASSIGNMENT MUST CORRESPOND

WITH THE NAME AS WRITTEN UPON

THE FACE OF THE CERTIFICATE IN

EVERY PARTICULAR WITHOUT

ALTERATION OR ENLARGEMENT, OR

ANY CHANGE WHATEVER.

 

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Signature(s) Guaranteed

 

By:                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                

THE SIGNATURE(S) MUST BE GUARANTEED BY AN ELIGIBLE GUARANTOR INSTITUTION (BANKS, STOCKBROKERS, SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATIONS AND CREDIT UNIONS WITH MEMBERSHIP IN AN APPROVED SIGNATURE GUARANTEE MEDALLION PROGRAM) PURSUANT TO S.E.C. RULE 17AD-15.

 

The within named Company will furnish without charge to each stockholder who so requests a statement of the powers, designations, preferences and relative, participating, optional, or other special rights of each class of stock or series thereof of the Company and the qualifications, limitations or restrictions of such preferences and/or rights. Such requests may be made to the Company’s Secretary at the principal office of the Company.

 

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