Robel maintains a practice involving advisory and advocacy work on matters related to business crimes, investigations and compliance, competition/antitrust, foreign investment, competition litigation, and commercial litigation.
Prior to joining Blakes, Robel practised competition and foreign investment law at a national law firm in Toronto. As an articling student, he worked at a leading western Canadian law firm and completed a secondment to the Court of Appeal for Saskatchewan where he was a seconding clerk to three justices, including the chief justice.