CRIMINAL LAWYER
María Eugenia Flores Chávez
White-collar and corporate criminal law
Counsel and litigation for business owners, executives, companies and families facing a criminal risk that could compromise their assets, their operations or their freedom.
+10
years of practice in private litigation, public service and specialized advisory work.
+3
years at the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office of Jalisco, the first of its kind in the state.
+7
years teaching at Universidad Panamericana, where she chairs the Criminal Law Academy.
8
areas of practice in white-collar and corporate criminal law, handling matters throughout Mexico.
PROFILE
Litigation, public service and teaching
A criminal lawyer specialized in oral advocacy and a certified compliance officer. Her profile is defined by the convergence of three dimensions that support a serious, strategic and deeply ethical criminal law practice.
I · Litigation
She represents individuals and companies, Mexican and foreign, on both sides of criminal proceedings: the defense of accused persons and legal counsel to victims, always starting from a theory of the case built from the outset.
II · Public service
She took part in building Jalisco’s anti-corruption system from its inception, as head of the private office and of the legal coordination of the state’s first specialized anti-corruption prosecutor’s office.
III · Teaching
She teaches what she practices: she is a professor of Introduction to Criminal Law, Theory of Crime and Criminal Procedure at Universidad Panamericana, where she chairs the Criminal Law Academy.
PERSONAL ATTENTION
She takes on a limited number of matters. That is what guarantees direct attention, absolute confidentiality and the depth of analysis each case requires.
PRACTICE
Areas of practice
Her practice is focused on white-collar and corporate criminal law, with an understanding of the business and financial operations underlying each case.
01 · Crimes against property
Fraud, breach of trust, dispossession and other property crimes.
02 · Tax and financial crimes
Tax, financial, banking and securities crimes.
03 · Corruption
Corruption offenses, with institutional knowledge of how they are prosecuted.
04 · Anti-money laundering
Prevention and AML compliance for companies.
05 · Intellectual property
Copyright and industrial property crimes.
06 · Environment and urban development
Environmental crimes and crimes against urban development.
07 · Offenses in legal proceedings
Offenses committed in administrative and judicial proceedings.
08 · Digital legal risks
Prevention and response, for organizations and individuals.
PROFESSIONAL SERVICES
Services
Strategic criminal litigation is the core of her practice, always starting from a theory of the case built from the outset. It is complemented by the prevention of criminal risk within companies and in the digital environment.
01 · Specialized criminal litigation
Investigation, hearings and oral trial, on both sides of the proceedings.
02 · Counsel to victims of fraud and property crimes
Legal counsel to victims and injured parties, focused on obtaining restitution.
03 · Criminal defense
Technical defense of accused persons at every stage of the proceedings.
04 · Amparo proceedings in criminal matters
Direct and indirect amparo against acts and rulings issued in criminal proceedings.
05 · Corporate crime prevention
Design, implementation and oversight of criminal compliance programs.
06 · Anti-money laundering
Prevention of transactions with proceeds of illicit origin within companies.
07 · Digital legal risk prevention and response
Advice to organizations and individuals on the legal risks of the digital environment.
EDUCATION, PRACTICE AND TEACHING
Background
María Eugenia Flores Chávez is a criminal lawyer specialized in oral advocacy and a certified compliance officer, with more than a decade of practice in private litigation, public service and specialized advisory work. She trained at Lazo, Villa, Moel y García, S.C., and for more than three years headed the private office and the legal coordination of the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office of the State of Jalisco, the first institution of its kind in the state. She now leads her own independent practice, based in Zapopan, Jalisco, handling matters throughout Mexico and focused on white-collar and corporate criminal law.
She holds a law degree with honors from Universidad Panamericana and a Master of Laws (LL.M.) cum laude from California Western School of Law, with graduate studies in criminal procedure and economic criminal law. She has taught at Universidad Panamericana since 2019, where she chairs the Criminal Law Academy, and has taught in ITESO’s Specialization in Public Integrity and Anti-Corruption Strategies.
ACADEMIC ACTIVITY
Lectures, conferences and teaching
Public security and due process
2025 · Speaker at the analysis forum “New Public Security Model: Surveillance State or Guarantor State?”, held by the Universidad Panamericana School of Law, on the National Guard Law and the Law of the National System of Public Security Investigation and Intelligence.
Ethics in criminal justice
2024 · Instructor in the international collaborative course Ethics in Criminal Justice, with Florida International University and Dedan Kimathi University of Technology, for students from Mexico, the United States and Kenya.
Second Criminal Law Congress
2024 · Organizer, as chair of the Universidad Panamericana Criminal Law Academy. She moderated the panel on investigative acts and techniques, precautionary orders and pretrial measures, and joined Miguel Ontiveros Alonso and José Caro John in presenting the 90th anniversary edition of the journal Criminalia.
Fighting corruption
Speaker and instructor in diploma programs on the investigation and litigation of corruption offenses, taught, among others, to prosecution personnel.
HOW SHE WORKS
Certainty about the work, not about the outcome.
01 · Analysis
Every matter begins with a study of the file and its background, before any opinion is given.
02 · Strategy in writing
Commitments are set out in writing: what will be done, within what time frames, with what scope and with what risks.
03 · Personal attention
Each matter receives personal and direct attention, with a strategy designed for its specific circumstances, risks and objectives.
04 · Follow-up
Clients know the status of their matter at all times. The information they share, complete and on time, is part of the strategy.
Contact
Torre Celtis, Real de Acueducto 240, int. 52
Puerta de Hierro, 45116 Zapopan, Jalisco
33 1699 5871
marufc@maruflores.com
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