Jianan Yang

Jianan Yang is a Partner at Lazard CL, having joined from Lazard’s Private Capital Advisory group in New York in November 2026, which he joined in 2022 from Deutsche Bank.

Jianan focuses on GP-led secondary transactions including single and multi-asset continuation vehicles, tender offers, strip sales and other structured alternatives. Jianan joined Lazard in 2022 from Deutsche Bank where he spent 9 years in the Financial Sponsors Group and worked closely with leading private equity funds on leveraged buyout and M&A transactions across a variety of sectors including Consumer, Healthcare, Industrials and Technology.

Jianan received a B.S. in Mathematics and International Business & Management magna cum laude from Dickinson College.