Richard Peil is a financial professional with over 25 years of financial advisory experience. Mr. Peil has led hundreds of complex valuation and financial advisory assignments for a multitude of reasons such as: advising buyers and sellers on transaction prices, purchase price allocations, and fairness opinions; advising debtors and creditor groups in connection with the reorganized value of companies in Chapter 11 bankruptcy and fresh start accounting for reorganized companies; providing solvency and fair value opinions for bankruptcy litigants involved in fraudulent conveyance and preference actions; providing Topic 820 (FAS 157) valuations of closely held debt and equity securities owned by private equity firms and hedge funds; and the determination of economic damage computations for both plaintiffs and defendants embroiled in commercial litigation disputes. 

Prior to joining B. Riley in 2011, Mr. Peil held leadership positions as a managing director in the Corporate Finance and Financial Restructuring practices of XRoads Solutions Group LLC from 2000 to 2011 and was a director in the Valuation Services group at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLC from 1991 to 2000.