Jason Bernhard Bio

Jason Bernhard is a Managing Director at Lazard and serves as Global Chief Operating Officer of Financial Advisory. He previously served as Head of Healthcare, North America as well as Chief Operating Officer of North American Investment Banking. He has held a wide range of senior management roles while at Lazard, including Global Co-Head of Healthcare Investment Banking, Director of Lazard Canada, Ltd., and co-founded Lazard's biotechnology and later its healthcare services practices. Jason is a member of the firm's Investment Banking Committee and Global Executive Committee. Since joining Lazard in 1997, Jason has been involved in many of the firm's most complex healthcare advisory assignments. He brings a unique perspective to Lazard's advisory practice, having spent the majority of his career working with a broad range of healthcare clients. His transaction experience includes domestic and cross-border mergers, acquisitions, leveraged buy-outs, restructurings, and capital raises, as well as contested situations. Jason began his career in investment banking in 1988 in Merrill Lynch's Mergers & Acquisitions Group working in New York, London, and Hong Kong. University of Pennsylvania, B.A. (cum laude), University of Pennsylvania, The Wharton School, M.B.A.