Meghann Ahern Triplett

Ms. Triplett is a partner at Margulies Faith, LLP a botique bankrtupcy firm and specializes in all matters relating to bankruptcy, insolvency, and restructuring. She has extensive experience representing debtors and creditors in chapter 7 and 11 individual and business bankruptcy cases, and adversary proceedings. Ms. Triplett also represents clients in out-of-court debt restructurings and work-out negotiations and many different insolvency-related litigation matters at the trial and appellate levels. 

Examples of Ms. Triplett's experience include:

• Prevailed on summary judgment obtaining a $9,200,000 nondischargeable judgment against chapter 7 debtor.
• Obtained stipulated $6,000,000 nondischargeable judgment.
• Obtained order awarding both monetary and terminating sanctions, including striking debtor’s answer to a nondischargeability complaint.
• Obtained order requiring debtor to turnover per capita income distributions received from California Indian Tribe’s net gaming revenues to chapter 7 trustee of more than $50,000 per month.
• Represented litigation trustee appointed under confirmed chapter 11 plan to review claims and disburse approximately $2.5 million in assets to classes of unsecured creditors.
• Represented trustee in sale of multiple parcels of residential and commercial real property, valued in the aggregate, in excess of $10 million.
• Represented trustee in obtaining settlement with first position secured lender and 100% carve out of lender’s secured claim for the benefit of the estate.
• Represented trustee in the negotiation and subsequent liquidation of debtor’s intellectual property rights and income residuals.
• Obtained a temporary restraining order against debtor in connection with significant undisclosed real and personal property assets which ultimately resulted in the recovery of more than $450,000.
• Represented various trustees and creditors in the prosecution and defense of avoidance actions (preferential and/or fraudulent transfer litigation) and complaints and subsequently obtained default judgment against debtor in the sum of $9,500,000 and $2,400,000 in two related cases.
• Prevailed in $1 million dollar non-dischargeability action in favor of debtor client for nominal settlement.
• Prevailed on summary judgment to avoid $112,000 in preferential transfers to insider of corporate debtor within the one-year prepetition period.