Our Team

Throughout his career, Francisco has been entrusted with matters involving clients whose positions, businesses, and public profiles demand discretion, sound judgment, and sophisticated legal counsel. His clients have included White House officials, senior government officials, celebrities, professional athletes, and members of international royalty. He has also served as an advisor to members of the United States Congress on matters requiring careful consideration of legal, professional, and reputational consequences.

Francisco founded The Mundaca Law Firm with a commitment to sophisticated, highly responsive representation and a philosophy embodied by the firm's guiding principle: Advocacy without compromises. As Founding Partner, he leads the firm's strategic direction while maintaining an active practice representing clients in matters where the legal, financial, professional, and reputational stakes are often substantial.

Employment Law

Francisco's employment practice focuses on sophisticated workplace disputes, executive representation, and federal-sector employment matters. His clients include C-suite executives, senior and mid-level professionals, physicians, government officials, federal employees, and other professionals confronting significant workplace disputes and career transitions.

His work encompasses high-stakes severance and separation negotiations, executive and employment agreements, whistleblower matters, workplace investigations, contractual disputes, discrimination and retaliation claims, sexual harassment, wrongful termination, and complex federal-sector employment matters.

Francisco's representation frequently extends beyond the immediate legal dispute. He counsels clients through decisions that can affect their careers, reputations, businesses, and financial futures. Drawing upon extensive litigation and negotiation experience, he develops strategies that account for the client's broader objectives while remaining prepared to aggressively pursue or defend claims when litigation becomes necessary.

He has also represented partners and owners of law firms, medical practices, and other professional organizations in complex partnership and ownership disputes, including matters involving governance, compensation, fiduciary obligations, separation, control, and the financial consequences associated with restructuring or dissolving professional relationships.

Business & Corporate Law

Francisco counsels entrepreneurs, founders, executives, investors, and established organizations through sophisticated matters arising throughout the business lifecycle, from formation and growth to acquisition, restructuring, ownership disputes, and other significant corporate events.

His transactional experience includes representing clients in mergers and acquisitions, business purchases and sales, commercial agreements, corporate governance, ownership and partnership arrangements, regulatory and compliance matters, intellectual property protection, insurance-related matters, employment issues, and strategic risk management.

Francisco also advises clients on the formation and structuring of sophisticated businesses, with particular attention to insulating owners, protecting assets, establishing appropriate governance, separating areas of liability, and minimizing unnecessary legal exposure. Rather than treating business formation as the creation of a single legal entity, he evaluates the client's operations, ownership, assets, liabilities, growth objectives, and risk profile to develop structures appropriate to the enterprise. Where warranted, that work includes multi-entity structures and contractual protections designed to allocate risk and support future growth.

Francisco also serves as outside and fractional general counsel to businesses across a broad range of industries. In that capacity, he works directly with founders, owners, boards, executives, and leadership teams as a strategic legal advisor. He helps clients anticipate risk, structure solutions, evaluate transactions, navigate consequential business decisions, manage disputes, and coordinate legal strategy as their organizations grow and evolve.

Litigation & Crisis Management

Litigation has been a defining component of Francisco's career. Before entering private practice, he served as an Assistant District Attorney in Brooklyn, New York, where he developed substantial courtroom and trial experience. That prosecutorial foundation continues to shape his approach to advocacy, negotiation, investigations, crisis management, and complex disputes.

Francisco approaches litigation with an understanding that the consequences of a dispute often extend well beyond the courtroom. For executives, public officials, prominent individuals, professionals, and businesses, litigation can implicate reputation, operations, professional relationships, financial interests, and long-term strategic objectives. His representation is therefore designed not only to address the legal claims at issue, but also to manage the broader risks surrounding them.

His experience representing high-profile individuals and organizations has likewise required the ability to navigate matters in which confidentiality, public exposure, and reputational considerations can be as consequential as the underlying legal dispute.

Media & Professional Leadership

Francisco's legal experience and perspective have made him a sought-after commentator on significant legal issues. He has appeared on national and international news broadcasts, including Reuters, Fox, NBC, Univision, and Telemundo, and has been featured or quoted in publications including Rolling Stone, Forbes, MSN, and Washington Lawyer.

Francisco serves on the Board of Visitors of The Catholic University of America Columbus School of Law and as a Special Advisor to the Dean, contributing his perspective as a practicing attorney, former prosecutor, and law firm founder to the Law School's leadership and strategic direction. Through these roles, he supports the institution's continued advancement and its mission of developing the next generation of lawyers and leaders.

Francisco has also served as an attorney mentor for the Inclusive Ventures Program, a publicly funded initiative supporting small and mid-sized businesses through education, mentorship, and access to professional resources.

As both an attorney and the founder of a growing multi-jurisdictional law firm, Francisco brings together the perspectives of advocate, litigator, strategic counselor, and business owner. That combination informs his approach to representation: understand the client's objectives, appreciate the consequences beyond the immediate legal question, develop a practical and sophisticated strategy, and advocate decisively when circumstances require it.