Hector Sanchez

Practice Areas

Investigations

Compliance

Corporate

Corporate Governance

Energy

Regulatory and Government Procurement

Career

HECTOR DANIEL SANCHEZ FERNANDEZ has more than 15 years of experience focusing his practice on anti-corruption, compliance, corporate and energy matters. He advises clients on a wide range of regulatory matters across a number of key industries, including energy, financial services, healthcare, telecommunications, retail, among others.

Hector regularly assists clients to determine applicability of different regulations to business operations (compliance), evaluate, design and creation of compliance programs (including anti-corruption programs, codes of ethics, and corporate integrity programs), conduct audits, risk assessments and internal investigations, and design, implement and monitor post-breach remediation programs. Areas of regulatory focus include anti-corruption (e.g., U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and local anti-corruption legislation, such as Mexico’s National Anti-Corruption System), data privacy, anti-money laundering, consumer protection, and regulation of advertising. Work collaboratively across practice areas to diligence corruption risk in corporate transactions. Assist clients on post-acquisition integration of regulatory compliance programs or its improvement.

Particular expertise representing domestic and international clients on global energy matters, with an emphasis on natural resources, oil and gas, mining and electricity; including corporate aspects, administrative procedures, government procurement, public policy, dispute resolution and agrarian law matters.

Work Highlights

Global Anti-Corruption

• Represented several foreign subsidiaries of U.S. companies from different sectors in the structuring, implementation and roll-out of anticorruption FCPA policies and procedures as well as conducting anti-corruption due diligences in a number of countries, including Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, Spain and Mexico.

• Conducted anti-corruption and compliance due diligences to proposed target companies to be acquired in Mexico. Also implements remediation actions post acquisition.

• Conducted risk assessment and compliance program assessment of companies from different sectors.