Rosa M. Rojas Vértiz  picture Rosa M. Rojas Vértiz

Part-time Professor and Attorney

ITAM University / RMRV Consulting
Ceres 42, Col. Crédito Constructor
Mexico City, 03940
Mexico

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Bio:

Rosa is an academic and international consultant on Insolvency and Business Law. For many years she was a member of the Banking and Finance Group of a leading Mexican firm dealing with lending and secured transactions, real estate financing, structured cross-border financing, restructurings and workouts. Later she joined the First Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice of Mexico, where she drafted judgments and contributed to the development of legal precedents dealing with civil, commercial, finance and insolvency matters. She is currently a Professor at ITAM University (Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México).

Rosa has coordinated, taught and implemented many courses and workshops in insolvency and corporate law for Mexican Universities and for the School for Federal Judges in Mexico. She was selected to prepare and coordinate the training courses for the first Mexican courts specialized in insolvency. Rosa joined the team that drafted a National Code of Civil Proceedings by invitation of the Mexican Senate to incorporate a consumer insolvency proceeding. Rosa is a frequent speaker in panels and conferences in Mexico and abroad, and has many publications in Mexican and international journals, including a book on Consumer Insolvency and a book on health insurance.

Among her publications are:

“The New Insolvency System in Mexico” published on the website of the Federal Institute of Specialists in Insolvency Law and on the Mexican Bulletin of Comparative Law, New Series, Year XXXV, Number 105, September-December 2002.

“Insolvency Proceedings for Natural Persons: Why is Latin America Innovating?” Gold Medal Winner 2018 III Prize in International Insolvency Studies. Published in the Norton Journal of Bankruptcy Law and Practice, Vol. 27, No. 5 (2018), p. 453.

The MLCBI, the COMI, and Emerging Markets: Is it time for amendments?  forthcoming in the Chicago-Kent Law Review.

Memberships

IWIRC Latin America. Co-chair of the LATAM network 2023-2025.
Mexican Bar Association. Subcoordinator of the Insolvency Committee.
Mexican Academy of Private and Comparative International Law (AMEDIP).
Ibero-American Institute for Law and Finance. Coordinator in Mexico.
American Bankruptcy Institute.
INSOL International.
National Association of Business Lawyers (ANADE).
SpeciaCtieConsumer insolvency, corporate insolvency, cross-border insolvency, Finance law, Secured Transactions

Specialties:

Cross-border insolvency law, Finance law, Secured Transactions
rosa.rojasvertiz@itam.mx