Steven J. Hazel

With 35 years of experience, Steven Hazel has combined his accounting, business management, and finance backgrounds to quantify economic damages and value assets/businesses in a variety of circumstances, from adversarial proceedings, to mergers and acquisitions, and for financial reporting and tax purposes. While Mr. Hazel is involved in cases in the U.S. and internationally, he spends most of his time in Los Angeles, New York, and Denver.

Mr. Hazel has served as an expert witness in the State and Federal Courts, arbitrations, and administrative hearings on behalf of defendants and plaintiffs. He has been retained by national, regional and boutique law firms on a variety of cases, including those involving lost profits, valuation, cost audits, tax issues, breach of contract, feasibility studies, lost opportunities, asset tracing, and fraud investigations.

Working in diverse industries, Mr. Hazel relies on business acumen and judgment derived from over three decades as a forensic accountant. His background in public accounting, including tax and auditing, affords him added insight into how valuations and financial analysis documents and concepts are used and challenged. Coupled with his entrepreneurial history as a part-owner of both established companies and start-ups himself, Mr. Hazel knows how business works.

Representative testimony experience includes extensive financial and damage analysis, valuation, and tax related litigation assignments. Non litigation valuation and investigation projects are also a large part of his practice. Financial analysis for lost profits and opportunities, accounting investigation, tax issues, reasonable royalties, asset, business and liability valuation purposes are common.

Employment History:

• 2015 - Present - FTI Consulting, Los Angeles, California
• 2004 - 2015 - RGL Forensics, Denver, Colorado
• 2001 - 2004 - Brockmann Armour and Lehman Butterwick, Denver, Colorado
• 1999 - 2000 - CBIZ-SKB, Englewood, Colorado
• 1990 - 1999 - Classick Hazel, P.C. and Classick Financial, Lakewood, Colorado
• 1982 - 1990 - Pfleiger Alderman, Halliburton Hunter and Baller & Associates, Denver, Colorado