This paper addresses the problem of observer design for Lipschitz nonlinear systems via LMI. The goal of this note is to clarify some recent results and to propose a new design methodology. This is based on the reformulation of the Lipschitz property using some mathematical tools. This reformulation is a relevant and useful Lipschitz condition, which leads to less restrictive LMI conditions. To show the superiority of this latter, two numerical examples are presented. (C) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.