Brent McDaniel is a Senior Managing Director with Teneo’s Forensic practice, based in Dallas, Texas and London.
Drawing on more than 25 years of experience as an ethics and compliance officer, consultant and U.S. government investigator, Brent partners with law firms and clients across industries and geographies to address complex business and regulatory challenges. He advises boards, senior executives and their counsel on matters involving regulators, law enforcement and other stakeholders. His work includes fraud and corruption investigations, compliance program assessment and remediation, third-party risk management, anti-corruption and human rights initiatives, transaction due diligence, global asset tracing, monitorships and related dispute resolution.
Prior to joining Teneo, Brent was a Partner in KPMG’s Forensic practice, specializing in investigations, ethics and compliance, anti-corruption and third-party risk. Earlier, he held a senior ethics and compliance leadership role at a multinational energy company, where he worked closely with executives and the Board to assess and enhance the global compliance program, oversee its operations and coordinate with the company’s Ethics Monitor.
Brent has significant international experience across EMEA and the Americas. While based in London, he led KPMG’s Anti-Bribery and Corruption practice across EMEA and served on the UK Ministry of Justice working group advising on guidance for the UK Bribery Act.
He began his career as a Special Agent, and later Supervisory Special Agent, with the U.S. Treasury Department, leading complex white-collar investigations involving money laundering, corruption, terrorist financing, tax evasion, healthcare fraud and corporate fraud, and tracing and recovering assets globally.