Neema Varghese

Neema T. Varghese, CIRA is managing director of NV Consulting Services in Chicago and a seasoned financial advisor and independent director in complex situations. She advises clients through liquidity management, transaction advisory services, turnarounds, and protecting creditor interests.Ms. Varghese has served a number of industries, including health care, retail, financial services, oil/gas, pharma, manufacturing and transportation, and she typically has direct reporting responsibilities to C-suite executive teams, boards of directors and debt/equity investor groups. She has more than 15 years of experience in corporate finance advisory and has advised clients (both debtors and creditors) in bankruptcy situations, turnarounds, forensic accounting, asset divestiture, joint ventures, debt restructuring, and transaction advisory services through buy-side and sell-side merger-and-acquisition analysis and post-merger integration. Ms. Varghese has aided companies through cash-management issues, worked through receiverships, prepared entities for liquidations and go-ing-concern sales of parts or entire businesses, and guided secured lenders and private-equity firms through healthy and troubled portfolio companies. In 2019, she was appointed by the Department of Justice to serve as a subchapter V trustee. Ms. Varghese represented the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC) in assessing damages resulting from a $2.5 billion bank failure engaged primarily in mortgage-backed securities. Previously, she was a portfolio manager with Merrill Lynch’sSpecials Assets group, working with a $100MM+ portfolio, consistently maximizing recovery and minimizing charge off exposure. Ms. Varghese is a board member of the Turnaround ManagementAssociation, a volunteer tax-preparer with LadderUp and a 2016 winner of The M&A Advisor’sEmerging Leader Award. She received her B.S. in accountancy from the University of Illinois atUrbana – Champaign.