Henry Michaels joined Lazard as a senior advisor in Financial Advisory. He will be based in New York and serve as an advisor to Lazard’s Financial Institutions Group, North America.

Michaels has more than three decades of experience advising financial institutions on strategic matters. Before joining Lazard, he served as a managing director and co-head of the RBC Capital Markets U.S. Financial Institutions Group.

Before that, he was co-head of the Banks and Diversified Financial Services practice at Citigroup. He served as a managing director in the Financial Institutions Group of Lehman Brothers from 1999 to 2006 and worked in Merrill Lynch’s Financial Institutions Group from 1985 through 1999. He began his career at Dean Witter Reynolds in 1982.