Net Income Per Share Of Class A Common Stock (Tables)

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2011

Net Income Per Share Of Class A Common Stock

Schedule Of Company's Basic And Diluted Net Income Per Share And Weighted Average Shares Outstanding

	Three Months  Ended September 30,				Nine Months  Ended September 30,
	2011		2010		2011		2010
Net income attributable to Lazard Ltd		$62,699		$64,091		$179,710		$75,129
Add - adjustment associated with Class A common stock issuable on a non-contingent basis		86		116		285		95
Net income attributable to Lazard Ltd - basic		62,785		64,207		179,995		75,224
Add - dilutive effect, as applicable, of:
Adjustments to income relating to interest expense and changes in net income attributable to noncontrolling interests resulting from assumed Class A common stock issuances in connection with share-based incentive compensation, convertible debt, convertible preferred stock and exchangeable interests, net of tax		3,618		5,992		12,692		3,988
Net income attributable to Lazard Ltd - diluted		$66,403		$70,199		$192,687		$79,212
Weighted average number of shares of Class A common stock outstanding		115,071,470		108,302,438		114,026,323		98,579,076
Add - adjustment for shares of Class A common stock issuable on a non-contingent basis		3,244,474		2,756,633		3,559,705		2,861,665
Weighted average number of shares of Class A common stock outstanding - basic		118,315,944		111,059,071		117,586,028		101,440,741
Add - dilutive effect, as applicable, of:
Weighted average number of incremental shares of Class A common stock issuable from share-based incentive compensation, convertible debt, convertible preferred stock and exchangeable interests		18,542,012		27,035,030		20,679,466		34,113,390
Weighted average number of shares of Class A common stock outstanding - diluted		136,857,956		138,094,101		138,265,494		135,554,131
Net income attributable to Lazard Ltd per share of Class A common stock:
Basic		$0.53		$0.58		$1.53		$0.74
Diluted		$0.49		$0.51		$1.39		$0.58