Experience

Richard Zabel is a senior forensic accountant with more than 30 years of experience in litigation support, calculation of damages, strategic assessment, financial analysis and a wide variety of business valuations in both public and private sectors.  

His investigative forensic accounting provides attorneys and legal teams with findings in securities litigation, financial litigation, business litigation, and antitrust and trade regulation matters. He has also testified in federal and state courts as an expert in financial and economic matters.

Mr. Zabel conducts strategic assessments of numerous economic and financial issues, including asset-backed securities, mortgage-backed securities, and other types of securities and investments. He also assists in the development of new matters.

While at Robins Kaplan LLP, Richard has also developed the Financial and Economic Consultants Group to support the firm’s attorneys on a variety of economic and financial issues.

Before joining Robins Kaplan LLP, Mr. Zabel was a principal at a financial litigation services firm practicing in the areas of litigation support and capital finance.  Mr. Zabel started his financial career as a member of the professional staff of Touche Ross & Co., now part of Deloitte & Touche, specializing in corporate and partnership taxation matters.