Lawrence Weiner has 23 years of experience in the financial markets as a fixed income securities specialist, consultant, and strategist. Mr. Weiner's work has centered on complex security structure and valuation, portfolio strategy, suitability, and risk assessment during the past decade. His clients have included government agencies, major law firms, and both individual and institutional investors nationwide.

Mr. Weiner has been engaged as an expert in some of the most high-profile fixed income litigation matters of the last ten years. Among them are the Askin Capital hedge fund, Orange County bankruptcy, and Piper Jaffray mutual fund-related cases. More recently, Mr. Weiner was retained by the SEC to serve as an expert in its enforcement action against the managers of the Beacon Hill hedge fund. In other recent engagements he has provided analysis and testimony regarding the suitability and pricing of some complex structured finance securities and of sub-prime mortgage instruments, including residual securities.

As a Vice President and fixed income securities strategist with Lehman Brothers in the 1990's, Mr. Weiner assisted institutional money managers in the analysis, hedging, and management of complex fixed income securities. His expertise covered a wide range of structured financial products, including Collateralized Mortgage Obligations (CMO's), asset-backed securities (ABS), Collateralized Debt Obligations (CDO's, CLO's, CBO's), and other fixed income derivative securities. Mr. Weiner also became versed in fixed income portfolio indexing and benchmarking, working extensively with clients who utilized Lehman Brothers bond market indices to structure bond portfolios.

Prior to joining Lehman Brothers, Mr. Weiner held several positions in the mortgage-backed securities department of Morgan Stanley & Co., Inc., which included two years in the firm's Tokyo office, where he worked with financial institutions in Japan, Hong Kong, and Singapore. In the firm's San Francisco office, Mr. Weiner was part of the Structured Finance team, where he gained hands-on expertise in the intricacies of asset securitization.

Mr. Weiner earned a B.A. in History from Brown University, where he graduated Magna Cum Laude and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and a Master's degree from Carnegie-Mellon University's Tepper Graduate School of Business, where his emphasis was on quantitative finance and economics.