Michael Weinstock is Chief Executive Officer and Co-Portfolio Manager at Monarch Alternative Capital. Prior to this, he served as Co-Portfolio Manager of the Lazard Debt Recovery Funds. He joined Lazard in 1992 to build a distressed debt research effort. Under his leadership, the distressed debt research team was ranked #1 in the distressed debt category by the Institutional Investor Magazine in 1998. He began his career in 1984 as an investment banker with Salomon Brothers and Goldman Sachs, where he gained significant experience and expertise in corporate finance, securitization as well as mergers and acquisitions.