Ivan Josue Romo Valdovinos

Dr. Iván J. Romo Valdovinos is the managing partner of SOELI Consulting in Mexico City and has international experience in commercial, labor, litigation, arbitration and insolvency consulting. In 2018, he actively participated in the democratic-electoral process at the federal level. Mr. Romo has participated as counsel representing parties, external advisor or expert witness in several of the most prominent insolvency cases in Mexico, including REFA Mexicana, Vitro, Mexicana de Aviación, Oceanografía, Altos Hornos de México, ICA and Abengoa. He also has been involved in high-profile arbitration and litigation cases, such as the million-dollar disputes that COMMISA and CONPROCA had against PEMEX. In addition, he participated in the Grupo Modelo acquisition process carried out by Anheuser-Busch InBev. Mr. Romo has given lectures and participated in interviews on television, radio and online in such countries as Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Spain, U.K. and U.S. He has taught at bachelor’s, graduate, diploma and master’s degree levels at such prestigious institutions as Escuela Libre de Derecho, wherein he currently is joint professor of the Bankruptcy Course, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM), Instituto Nacional de Desarrollo Jurídico, the Superior Court of Justice of the State of Hidalgo and the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation. Mr. Romo is a member of the Mexican Bar Association, the Ibero-American Institute of Bankruptcy Law, the International Insolvency Institute, INSOL International and ABI, which honored him as a member of its 2019 class of “40 under 40.” His experience in the energy sector includes projects for solar parks, renewable energy, and the production, transport and refining of gas, crude oil and electric energy. Over the course of more than four years, Mr. Romo was CEO of Sonpetrol México, a company dedicated to the drilling and workover of gas and crude wells. He currently sits on its board of directors. Mr. Romo obtained his law degree with honorable mention from Escuela Libre de Derecho, his M.B.A. from the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM), Mexico, his Master’s in global management from Tulane University and his Ph.D. in law from the Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas of Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (IIJ-UNAM).