Lazard writing test

While I am not sure on Lazard specifically this should be pretty straight forward (3 hours is plenty of time too). I have seen these from pretty much all major banks and EBs and they are always the same (some more extensive some less) and have done a fair share of them myself. most of the items described below should probably be quarter of a slide and text/graphs or both

1) Company Overview (brief introduction to the business, what they do, where they are, when they were founded, divisional overview if relevant etc.) 2) Key Financials (Include the income statement, focus on EBITDA, margins, Capex, EBITDA-Capex/conversion). 3) Quick valuation overview (market cap, net debt, EV and then EV/EBITDA for the years you show the financials, EV/EBITDA-Capex/EBIT depending on what industry it is) 4) Product overview (just a bunch of pictures and short descriptions on the products) - depending on what they do you may also include their key customers or clients (put a bunch of colourful logos here) - if they are international include a map with key locations and descriptions on them as well 5) Shareholder overview (if you can find the top 10 shareholders include a table with their stakes and values) 6) Management (include their pictures and a short bio of the top 5 guys) 7) If you can also include a graph of their share price over the last 24 months including the overall performance (if you can show the relevant index in there as well as a comparison)

This is what I used to include in those profiles (This is probably more on the extensive side of things and 2-3 slides but here you would rather want to do too much than too little)