ABOUT
Maritza T. Adonis, J.D., LL.M., MBA, MCIArb, is a legal scholar, business law professor, regulatory consultant, and institutional strategy advisor whose work focuses on corporate governance, international business and economic law, regulatory policy, and the intersection of law, business, and public institutions. She is a recent Research Fellow with the Denny Center for Democratic Capitalism at Georgetown University Law Center, a former Teaching Fellow at Georgetown Law, and an immediate past Visiting Professor of Business Law. She currently teaches Business Law and Data Analytics Internship, Business Law, Commercial Law, Business Ethics, Negotiation, Entrepreneurship, and Political Economy.
Adonis is Founder and Chief Executive Officer of MTA Visions LLC, where she advises businesses, universities, governments, and other institutions on corporate governance, regulatory affairs, government relations, strategy, public-private partnerships, and economic initiatives. Her experience includes leading federal policy and government affairs for a national business network; advising on congressional and federal regulatory matters; conducting federal corporate compliance work within the legal department of Compass Group North America, part of a Fortune Global 500 company; supporting international commercial and investment arbitration matters in the dispute resolution practice group at Valiunas Ellex in Vilnius, Lithuania; and serving as a U.S. Department of State delegate to the inaugural U.S.-China Youth Forum on Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Shenzhen, China.
Adonis has held extensive leadership and policy roles across the American Bar Association. She was recently appointed for the 2026–2029 term as Co-Chair of the ABA Business Law Section’s Business Bar Leaders Committee. She previously served as Founding Chair of the Business Law Section’s Corporate Social Responsibility & Sustainable Business Activism Committee. Within the ABA International Law Section, her leadership has included Chair of the Young Lawyers Interest Network, Deputy DEI Director, Vice Chair of Policy for the International Arbitration Committee, Vice Chair of the Latin America and Caribbean Committee, and founding member of the ABA International Law Section Afghanistan Legal Task Force.
Her ABA service has also included working with other lawyers on formal policy comments addressing company law and corporate governance, competition and market regulation, USMCA/NAFTA trade negotiations and dispute resolution, and intellectual property matters involving Chinese patent law and service-invention regulations. As Deputy DEI Director, she reinvigorated the Section’s Diversity Fellows Program. She later created the Mentoring Together initiative as Chair of the Young Lawyers Interest Network. The initiative grew to include the Mentoring Together Breakfast, a flagship Annual Conference program, and received consecutive Section recognition in 2023 and 2024. She is also a recurring speaker, panelist, moderator, and program organizer across ABA conferences and CLE programming on corporate governance, corporate responsibility, international law, trade, dispute resolution, and legal education.
Adonis earned an LL.M. in International Business and Economic Law, with a Certificate in International Trade Studies, from Georgetown University Law Center and completed specialized studies in global arbitration practice and law at the School of International Arbitration, Queen Mary University of London. Her scholarship examines corporate governance and international economic law, with particular attention to fiduciary decision-making, corporate compliance, industrial policy, and the evolving boundary between public and private economic authority.
Her work and commentary have been featured in POLITICO, Pensions & Investments, the National Institute for Lobbying & Ethics, and Black Enterprise. Adonis is an American Bar Foundation Fellow and a recipient of the American Bar Association Silver Key Award.
