Alejandra Montenegro Almonte

Vice Chair of the International Department, Miller & Chevalier Chartered

Alejandra Montenegro Almonte is a member and the vice chair of the international department at Miller & Chevalier Chartered. Her practice focuses on internal corporate compliance, internal investigations and government enforcement actions across a variety of business-critical areas, including anti-corruption, internal controls and other ethics and compliance violations. Ms Montenegro Almonte also has extensive experience in advising clients on remediation to prevent violation from recurring.

Ms Montenegro Almonte’s compliance practice focuses on the design and implementation of risk-based internal compliance programmes for a wide range of companies. She designs and performs compliance audits and assessment, performs compliance due diligence in mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and other strategic partnerships, and advises companies on the design of safeguards to mitigate compliance risks arising from complex business transactions and thirdparty engagements. Currently, Ms Montenegro Almonte serves as an independent compliance monitor on behalf of a regulatory agency in Massachusetts and recently served in a leadership role in a monitorship team in a Foreign Corrupt Practices Act disposition.

Ms Montenegro Almonte is a native Spanish speaker and regularly conducts legal matters in both English and Spanish.