Sameer Shamsi
Partner
New York
Sameer Shamsi is a Partner at Lazard CL, having joined from Lazard's Private Capital Advisory (PCA) group in New York in November 2026.
Prior to joining Lazard, Sameer was a Managing Director and Co-Head of GP-Led Secondary Advisory at Houlihan Lokey. Sameer established the Secondary Advisory business at Houlihan in 2021. Previously, Sameer had worked on the dedicated secondary advisory teams at Credit Suisse, Evercore, and UBS Securities and started his career as a management consultant in 1999.
Sameer holds a Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Political Science from Columbia University.
