Biography
Zulima, our lead partner of the Bankruptcy & Insolvency practice, focuses on Civil and Commercial Litigation and Domestic and International Arbitration, including cases involving bankruptcy and insolvency, as well as contractual and non-contractual disputes, litigation of moral damages and property damage. She specializes in amparo law and has experience in constitutional and human rights conflicts.
She has extensive experience in domestic and cross-border insolvency and bankruptcy proceedings. In August 2020, Zulima was appointed Regional Director for Mexico of the Latin American Chapter of The International Women's Insolvency and Restructuring Confederation (IWIRC).
Zulima holds a law degree from the Universidad Anáhuac and an LLM from the University College London.
Experience
- Represented China Development Bank as a creditor in the insolvency proceeding of Altán Redes.
- Represented Landsteiner Scientific, one of Mexico's largest and most important pharmaceutical companies, in obtaining a financing agreement.
- Represented CSI Leasing Mexico, S. de R.L. de C.V., and Prime/CRDF Los Jardines, LLC within Grupo Famsa, S.A.B de C.V. bankruptcy proceeding. Grupo Famsa is one of the most important retailers in Mexico.
- Represented MTI Transport in its insolvency proceeding as well as in the individual proceedings that some creditors have begun against our client.
- Represented Servicios Petroleros San Antonio Internacional, S. de R.L. de C.V., a branch of a transnational enterprise dedicated to Oil and Gas matters, on its bankruptcy proceedings.
- Served as auxiliary of the conciliator and/or trustee appointed by IFECOM in the commercial bankruptcies of the companies Perforadora Oro Negro, Integradora de Servicios Petroleros Oro Negro, Grupo Almos, Servicios Anexos Iantel, ARC Internacional México, Retícula Gráficas, among others.
- Advised Biciclo (currently Turbo Limited) and TGC Ingeniería in their commercial bankruptcy procedures.
- Collaborated with the trustee appointed by the Federal Government in the commercial bankruptcies of Compañía Mexicana de Aviación and its subsidiaries Aerovías Caribe, Mexicana Inter, and the maintenance base Mexicana MRO.
- Represented a Mexican academic in a moral damage lawsuit against an international organization based in Mexico for infamous publications made on the Internet.
- Represents a Mexican citizen within a procedure of state liability for the irregularities committed by the SRE as a result of 2 international extradition procedures initiated against him.
Education
Diploma in Insolvency and its Effects, Ilustre y Nacional Colegio de Abogados de México, Mexico, 2021
Diploma in Bankruptcy, Barra Mexicana, Colegio de Abogados, A.C., Mexico, 2020
LLM, University College London, London, 2019
Amparo Specialty (Honorific Mention), Universidad Panamericana, Mexico, 2017
Exchange Program, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain, 2012
Law degree, Universidad Anáhuac, Mexico, 2014
Teaching
Publications
- La Enajenación de activos no vinculados a la operación ordinaria en la etapa de Conciliación en el concurso mercantil tramitado en México, Legal Industry Reviews, Mexico City, 2023 (only available in Spanish).
- Coauthor, Considerações sobre a reestruturação de dívidas de companhias latino-americanas por meio do us chapter 11, Agronegócio sem fronteiras, Editora Dialética, São Paulo, Brazil, 2023.
- El arraigo del deudor en el Concurso Mercantil, Legal Industry Reviews, Mexico City, 2023 (only available in Spanish).
- ¿Qué sucede con la representación legal de las Comerciantes en la etapa de Quiebra?, Legal Industry Reviews, Mexico City, 2023 (only available in Spanish).
- ¿Es jurídicamente posible aprobar un convenio concursal existiendo recursos de apelación en contra de la Sentencia de Reconocimiento de Créditos pendientes de resolver?, Legal Industry Reviews, Mexico City, 2022 (only available in Spanish).
- ¿A qué se enfrentan las mujeres en la práctica del Derecho de la Insolvencia?, Expansión Mujeres, Mexico City, 2022 (only available in Spanish).
- ¿Puede una sociedad civil ser considerada como comerciante para ser declarada en concurso mercantil?, Legal Industry Reviews, Mexico City, 2022 (only available in Spanish).
- La graduación de los créditos de los consumidores en un concurso mercantil, Legal Industry Reviews, Mexico City, 2022 (only available in Spanish).
- La constitucionalidad de la prohibición al deudor de pagar obligaciones vencidas en un concurso mercantil, Legal Industry Reviews, Mexico City, 2022 (only available in Spanish).
- El orden del pago de los créditos en un concurso mercantil, Legal Industry Reviews, Mexico City, 2022 (only available in Spanish).
- La obtención de financiamiento dentro del procedimiento concursal, Legal Industry Reviews, Mexico City, 2022 (only available in Spanish).
- ¿Es conveniente iniciar procedimientos de carácter patrimonial en contra de una empresa declarada en concurso mercantil?, Legal Industry Reviews, Mexico City, 2021 (only available in Spanish).
- La suspensión de procedimientos de ejecución en el concurso mercantil mexicano, Legal Industry Reviews, Mexico City, 2021 (only available in Spanish).
- Is bankruptcy an option for SMEs in crisis?, Expansión, Mexico City, 2021 (only available in Spanish).
- Access to bankruptcy proceedings in Mexico, Lexology, Mexico City, 2018.
- The Classification of Consumer's Credits in Bankruptcy Proceedings in Mexico, Lexology, Mexico City, 2018.
