Darragh O’Neill

Darragh O’Neill brings more than a decade of experience advising clients on corporate finance engagements, with a focus on transactions and performance improvement. Darragh has led and supported more than 100 engagements across a broad range of industries.

Darragh specializes in buy-side and sell-side financial due diligence for private equity and corporate clients. His transaction experience extends to distressed M&A, including 363 asset sales, and to sell-side readiness engagements that help clients prepare portfolio companies for sale by realizing growth and savings initiatives while strengthening reporting.

Darragh also has deep expertise in turnaround and business transformation. Working with distressed companies and lenders, he has delivered critical insights through 13-week cash flow modeling, SKU and four-wall profitability analysis, and scenario planning, often providing hands-on support to C-suite executives.

Beyond transactions and restructuring, Darragh has led enterprise-wide transformation programs spanning operating model redesign, cost takeout and regulatory support. He brings a data-driven, analytical approach to every engagement, distilling complex financial and operational information into actionable insights and value creation opportunities.

Relevant Experience:

• Led buy-side platform and add-on engagements, including quality of earnings (“QoE”), net working capital, debt and debt-like items and sales and purchase agreement (“SPA”) support
• Led sell-side engagements for private equity and corporate clients, including carve-outs
• Supported sell-side readiness engagements, ensuring cost savings and growth initiatives are crystallized into reported results
• Advised underperforming and distressed companies on reporting strategy, three-statement modeling, four-wall and SKU profitability analysis, and provided ad hoc CFO and COO support
• Advised distressed lenders on QoE bridge to forecast, 13-week cash flow modeling, vendor analysis, liquidation analysis, debtor-in-possession (“DIP”) modeling and pre-pack bankruptcy proceedings
• Led reorganization and cost takeout engagements, including operating model assessment, cost analysis, financial modeling and forecasting