Melina Flores

Founding Partner

P: 512-381-8874 | F: 512-381-8872

Melina is the founding partner of Flores, PLLC. She provides general counsel advice and represents clients on corporate and transactional matters, including commercial contracts, corporate governance issues, cross-border matters, and corporate immigration law. Her representations span a variety of sectors including the industrial, construction, building materials, manufacturing, cement, real property, and hazardous waste disposal sectors. She is licensed to practice law in both Texas and Mexico and has substantial experience practicing in both jurisdictions.

Prior to founding Flores, PLLC, Melina served as Chief Legal Officer, General Counsel, Vice President of Legal Affairs and Corporate Secretary for several international public and private companies where she advised owners, board members, executive leadership teams, and other corporate officers on a broad range of matters including strategic planning, budgeting and objectives, risk management and mitigation procedures, corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, strategic alliances, fiduciary liability matters, contracts, cross-border and commercial transactions and litigation, project finance, labor and employment matters (including reductions in force), corporate and family immigration law, intellectual property, trade, antitrust, data breach, real property, privacy law, and other corporate legal affairs.

Melina’s experience as Chief Legal Officer and General Counsel also includes negotiating numerous types of complex multimillion-dollar transactions, managing high-profile litigation dockets involving a wide spectrum of matters in state and federal courts and arbitrations and mediations across the country, and creating and implementing a company-wide compliance program for operations across the globe.

Melina has also built legal departments from the ground up, served as legal counsel on one of the largest industrial real estate sales in Latin America in 2007, and coordinated governmental relations with a Mexican State government for a medical non-profit. In addition, Melina worked for a prominent immigration law firm in Washington, D.C.

When Melina is not practicing law, she likes to spend time with her husband and kids, work out, travel, explore new restaurants, and find new and exciting investment opportunities.

Melina has successfully represented national and international organizations in a variety of matters. Examples of her experience include the following:

• Represented industrial developer in a $250 million industrial real estate sale constituting one of the largest industrial property sales in Latin America
• Represented cement company in the proposed sale of one of its cement plants on the East Coast involving proceedings before the Federal Trade Commission
• Represented client in a $60 million debt restructuring transaction with global lender
• Represented client in a $32 million loan with global bank
• Built legal department of two transnational companies operating in the United States
• Overhauled and improved compliance program of transnational building materials company and developed relevant compliance policies of the organization
• Directed and supervised legal strategy in an over $100 million multi district litigation consisting of numerous class actions relating to a building products manufacturer
• Supervised legal strategy in numerous multimillion dollar class actions involving a copper products distributor
• Managed client’s litigation docket of 100+ matters representing over $300 million dollars in potential exposure
• Worked with oil and gas tank storage systems and terminals company to form business entities and establish operations in numerous regions and countries including Latin America, the Middle East, Asia and South Africa
• Successfully coordinated legal strategy for a client in connection with an antitrust investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice
• Represented client in negotiations with a wind blade manufacturer resulting in the leasing of a 200,000 square foot build-to-suit plant
• Represented industrial developer in a $25 million industrial lease transaction with aerospace company
• Represented client in $12.4 million land purchase and construction and development of new industrial park
• Represented buyer in $4.5 million purchase of industrial building
• Represented client in negotiation of a shelter and lease transaction with a leading aerospace company