US corporations with business interests in Mexico are increasingly worried about exposure to terrorism-related criminal charges for inadvertently working with cartels in Mexico that are linked to business sectors, such as energy, manufacturing and financial services.
Bracewell’s Alamdar Hamdani, who previously served as US attorney for the Southern District of Texas, told Law360 that there is “a shifting risk profile for companies doing business in Mexico.” The Trump administration clearly is “laser-focused on dismantling cartels and is using a new tool in the toolbox — going after companies providing material support to terrorism with cartels now designated as foreign terrorist organizations,” he noted.
