Michael Katzenstein

Michael Katzenstein is leader of the Interim Management Practice at FTI Consulting, Inc. in New York. He specializes in in-court and out-of-court restructurings and has led engagements across many industries including traditional and new media, entertainment, technology, biotechnology, telecommunications, and other subscriber-based businesses and investment funds and fund liquidations. He has decades of cross-border restructuring experience and is called upon to advise in many of the largest and most complex situations. Mr. Katzenstein is regularly called upon to lead and assist in implementing strategy for companies in financial or operating distress or transition. His clients include large and midsized corporations and many major financial institutions and hedge funds. Mr. Katzenstein served as chairman of the board of directors at Caribbean Asset Holdings, cable television, ILEC and competitive wireless operations in the U.S. Virgin Islands, British Virgin Islands and St. Maartin. He also served as chairman of the board of directors and member of the executive and audit committees at RCN, a business/enterprise CLEC and broadband services provider in major U.S. markets. In addition, he served on the board of directors and audit committee at Sun-Times Media Group, which owned and operated more than 30 newspaper titles in the greater Chicago market, and the board of directors at GSI Group. Mr. Katzenstein is a post-effective liquidating trustee for the Sun-Times estate and serves as monitor for the benefit of claimant trusts in the first St Vincent’s hospital restructuring. On many occasions, he has served as a consulting or testifying witness on industry and corporate governance issues, and he has significant testimony experience, including in his capacity as CRO or financial advisor in restructuring proceedings. He began his career as a mergers and acquisitions and securities lawyer and was a partner in a New York law firm. Mr. Katzenstein received his B.A. in political science from the State University of New York at Binghamton and his J.D. from Boston University School of Law.