Deep-Dive Look into S Corporation Taxation (Business Valuation Conference)

P. Dermot O’Neill, CPA, ABV, CVA, MAFF, ABAR
President
P. Dermot O’Neill, CPA PC

P. Dermot O’Neill is a CPA, ABV, CVA, MAFF, ABAR with over 40 years of public accounting experience. Dermot’s practice concentrates in the areas of income taxation, forensic accounting, litigation support, business valuation, transaction consulting, and financial analysis.  He has provided consulting and expert witness assistance in cases involving oppressed shareholders, personal injury, wrongful death, accounting malpractice, and contract and tort issues.  He has testified as an expert in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Florida, New York, Connecticut, Virginia, Arizona, the Chancery Court of Delaware as well as Federal Bankruptcy Court and Federal District Court.

Dermot is an adjunct instructor at Rider University College of Business Administration, Graduate Studies.  He has been an adjunct lecturer at Villanova University as well as a guest lecturer at Widener University, Drexel University and Lehigh University Graduate Schools of Business. He has presented continuing professional education seminars sponsored by various state accounting institutes and societies, bar associations and universities.  He received his B.S. in Economics from Villanova University.

Oct. 2018

John E. Mitchell, CPA, ABV, CFF, CVA
Partner-in-Charge
Marks Paneth LLP

John E. Mitchell, CPA, is the Partner-in-Charge of litigation consulting, business valuation, and accounting and auditing. Mr. Mitchell has completed damages analysis, business valuation, investigative accounting, auditing and other types of engagements for a variety of clients and end users, including attorneys, bankers, and the courts. As part of providing litigation consulting, business valuation and investigative accounting services, Mr. Mitchell has provided expert witness testimony in several jurisdictions (including the Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas (multiple counties), the United States District Court (Eastern District), the Delaware Court of Chancery, and the New Jersey Superior Court) and arbitration venues (including AAA and FINRA). Mr. Mitchell’s accounting and auditing practice includes privatelyheld and venturebacked companies in the technology, business services, manufacturing/distribution, real estate and nonprofit sectors.

Charles S. Lunden, CPA/ABV/CFF, CFE, CLU, FLMI, CMA
Partner
Bederson & Co., LLP

Charles S. Lunden, CPA/ABV/CFF, CFE, CLU, FLMI, CMA is a partner at Bederson LLP, and testified nationally at trial or depositions on over 100 occasions involving damages and business valuations. In addition to speaking frequently on these topics, he is Past Chairman of the Pennsylvania Institute of CPA Committee on Forensic and Litigation Services and is active with the Business Valuation committee, being responsible for responding to proposed changes in professional standards. He is a contributing editor to the National Litigation Consultant’s Review.