Lazard Middle Market provides financial advisory services to buyers and sellers of middle market public and private companies in all types of domestic and cross-border transactions including:

• sales by entrepreneurs and their families of closely held companies;
• divestitures by private equity groups of portfolio companies;
• divestitures by large public and private companies of subsidiaries and divisions;
• sales of small-cap public companies;
• acquisitions; and
• the formation of partnerships, joint ventures, and strategic alliances.

Our outstanding professionals have earned a reputation for successfully initiating, negotiating, structuring, and closing middle market mergers, acquisitions and divestitures at purchase price premiums well in excess of industry norms.