Bankruptcy and Mass Torts Collide: Working Through Recent Mass Tort Bankruptcies in Indiana.
Presented by:
Deborah Caruso and Meredith Theisen, Rubin & Levin
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About the Speakers:
Partner Deborah Caruso practices in the areas of bankruptcy, debtors and creditors’ rights, court supervised receiverships, and commercial litigation. She has 37 years of experience representing and advising individuals, businesses, bankruptcy trustees, and court appointed receivers in Chapter 7, 11, and 13 bankruptcy cases, out of court debt restructuring, receivership actions, and litigation matters.
Ms. Caruso is a Chapter 7 bankruptcy panel trustee for the Southern District of Indiana, Indianapolis Division, where she has served since 1997. Recently, she was appointed as the trustee in the Chapter 7 bankruptcy cases of ITT Educational Services, Inc. and its affiliates. To date, the ITT case is the largest Chapter 7 case filed in Indiana. Ms. Caruso is over-seeing the liquidation of $100 million of assets, $140 million in benefit plans, along with numerous large litigation matters.
Ms. Caruso’s clients include individuals and small family businesses attempting to reorganize business debt in or outside of a bankruptcy case, large businesses filing Chapter 11, creditors involved in debt reorganization or bankruptcy cases, bankruptcy trustees, court appointed receivers and parties in commercial litigation. Ms. Caruso has successfully reorganized small family businesses and unraveled complex multi-million-dollar Ponzi schemes.
Firm Partner Meredith R. Theisen concentrates her practices in the areas of bankruptcy, bankruptcy litigation, debtors and creditors’ rights, business representation, secured transactions, real estate sales, state court receiverships, commercial litigation, and bankruptcy trustee and state court receiver representation.
Her bankruptcy practice includes representing individuals, businesses, debtors, and creditors in Chapters 7, 11, 12 and 13 bankruptcy cases, out of court debt restructuring, receivership actions, and litigation matters. She has served as counsel to individuals and businesses reorganizing in Chapter 11 cases or liquidating in complex Chapter 7 cases. She also has extensive experience representing bankruptcy trustees in both Chapter 7 and 11 cases. Throughout her practice, Meredith has developed an expertise in asset protecting, business liquidation and wind down, property acquisition through a bankruptcy 363 sale, lease assignment through a bankruptcy 365 assumption and assignment process, defending preference/fraudulent conveyance actions and non-dischargeability actions.
Much of her representation includes providing proactive counsel to businesses as she helps identify and minimize potential issues that could negatively impact operations. She also assists new business owners form business entities, choose the best entity type based upon their needs, and assist with start-up compliance issues so that new ventures will be on a firm legal ground for success.
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