Meredith Theisen

MEREDITH is a partner with Rubin & Levin, P.C. and concentrates her practice 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 chapter 7, 11, 12 and 13 bankruptcy cases, chapter 11 creditor committees, out-of-court debt restructurings, 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, she has developed expertise in asset-protection, business liquidation and wind-down, property acquisition through § 363 sales, lease assignments through the § 365 assumption and assignment process, and defending preference/fraudulent conveyance actions and nondischargeability actions. Previously, she was an associate with Dale & Eke, P.C. in Indianapolis.

Meredith represented the Sexual Abuse Survivors Committee in the USA Gymnastics case and the CaEV2 Claimants Committee in the Aearo Technologies/3M case. Since 2016, she has served as counsel to the trustee in the ITT case, the largest for-profit college to ever file for bankruptcy and the largest chapter 7 case ever filed in Indiana.

A frequent speaker and author, Meredith chaired the Indiana State Bar Association’s Bankruptcy & Creditors’ Rights Section from 2021-22, chaired the Indianapolis Bar Association’s Commercial & Bankruptcy Law section in 2019, served as an at-large member of the Indianapolis Bar Association’s board of directors from 2020-22, was named a Distinguished Fellow of the Indianapolis Bar Foundation in 2016, is vice chair of the International Women’s Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation’s (IWIRC’s) Kentucky, Indiana and Tennessee (KIT) Network, and is an ABI member. In addition, she was selected to the Indiana Super Lawyers “Indiana Rising Stars” list from 2021-23.