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Daniel Maldonado Alcántara

Daniel Maldonado Alcántara

Latin America 2026

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Ranked in 2 practice areas

About

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Latin America

Practice Areas

Corporate and M&A; Internal Investigations, Compliance and Anticorruption.

Career

Daniel has significant experience in business, corporate and financial operations, and contract negotiations for international transactions. He co-chairs the Corporate Governance and Regulatory Compliance practice group of the firm. He advises clients on M&A transactions, joint ventures, corporate restructurings, commercial contracting and real estate matters. He also specializes in corporate governance and compliance matters, and has advised multinational companies, particularly from the automotive, pharmaceutical, medical device and retail industries in complex compliance investigations and risk assessments. Daniel also provides general advice and training on anticorruption and anti-money laundering issues. Due to his experience, he has been invited to participate as speaker in several symposiums on Compliance, Anti-Corruption, Money Laundering Prevention (AML) and Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) of the United States of America, in the United States, Europe, Brazil and Mexico. Daniel has more than twenty years of experience practicing law. Before he joined Sánchez Devanny, he gained significant experience serving as in-house counsel at a financial leasing company, as Corporate Legal Manager at a banking institution, and as an associate at a Mexican law firm. Daniel is fluent in English and Spanish.

Professional Memberships

Member of the British Chamber of Commerce in Mexico.

Member of the International Chamber of Commerce (Mexico).

TRACE partner firm in Mexico 2017-2018.

Chambers Review

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Chambers Latin America

Compliance - Mexico

Band 2
Band 2

Individual Editorial

Solid partner Daniel Maldonado Alcántara is highly regarded for his active presence in the Mexican compliance sphere. He is involved in advising some of the firm's most prominent clients from the pharmaceutical, retail and automotive sectors.

General Business Law: Queretaro - Mexico

Band 3
Band 3

Individual Editorial

Daniel Maldonado Alcántara garners recognition from interviewees for his compliance and corporate practices in Querétaro.

Strengths

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  • Daniel Maldonado Alcántara's ability to quickly gather and analyse information, while keeping us informed of every step, is invaluable.

    ComplianceChambers Latin America
  • Daniel Maldonado Alcántara is excellent. He responds quickly, he always has the information I need, and he gets highly involved.

    General Business Law: QueretaroChambers Latin America

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