P. Dermot O'Neill, CPA/ABV, CVA, CFFA

Dermot has over 35 years of experience as a Certified Public Accountant. He has concentrated his practice in the areas of forensic accounting and litigation support, business valuation, transaction consulting, and income taxation. He has provided consulting and expert witness assistance in cases involving various types of forensic analysis, damage calculations and business valuations.

Dermot is a CPA and has been awarded the designation ABV - Accredited in Business Valuation by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. He has been awarded the designation CVA, Certified Valuation Analyst, and CFFA, Certified Forensic Financial Analyst, by the National Association of Certified Valuation Analysts. He is a member of the American and Pennsylvania Institutes of Certified Public Accountants, National Association of Certified Valuation Analysts, Turnaround Management Association, and Institute of Business Appraisers. Dermot is a committee member of the Philadelphia Chapter of the PICPA Committee on Relations with the Bar, the Philadelphia Chapter of the PICPA Business Valuation Committee, PICPA Forensic and Litigation Services Committee (2007-2008 Annual Conference Chair), PICPA Business Valuation Committee, National Association of Certified Valuation Analysts State Chapters Committee, and the Editorial Advisory Board of the National Litigation Consultants Review.

Dermot has been an adjunct faculty member at Villanova University, guest lecturer at the graduate schools of business at Lehigh University and Weidner University as well as a member of the National Faculty of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (Staff Training Taxation and Staff Training Accounting and Auditing.). Currently, Dermot is an AICPA faculty member for business valuation and litigation courses. He has presented numerous seminars sponsored by the Accounting Associations, Institutes and Societies in Pennsylvania, Florida, Georgia, Ohio, Utah, Maryland, and Texas and has developed courses accredited for CLE by ALI-ABA.

He has testified as an expert in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Delaware, Florida and Virginia as well as Federal Bankruptcy Court and Federal District Court.

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