Edmund Lazarus
Managing Partner
Edmund Lazarus founded EMK Capital having previously been Managing Partner of Bregal Capital.
Edmund was a founder of Bregal Capital in 2002 and has held senior private equity roles since the 1990’s. Edmund’s early career was as a strategic consultant with Bain & Co and as an M&A and Corporate Finance adviser with SG Warburg, working with Mark Joseph who has been a friend for more than 30 years, and Merrill Lynch before he entered the private equity industry initially with Morgan Stanley Capital Partners.
Edmund is committed to public service alongside his professional career and served from 1992 to 2002 on Westminster Council the City Government for Central London latterly as Chairman of Finance and Deputy Leader, as Chairman of Finance of the London Development Agency from 2008 to 2012 and as Chairman of the London Green Fund from 2012 to 2016 (the latter positions nominated by the Mayor of London). Edmund graduated with a first class degree in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from Oxford University where he was also elected president of the Oxford Union in 1989.
An Arsenal fan by conviction rather than convenience, Edmund is enjoying the club’s recent success and is old enough to remember when it was a regular occurrence. Edmund is a keen skier mainly because he started late so it’s the only sport he is still getting better at and a fan of art particularly “Old Masters”.
