Best Lawyers in Spain for Labor and Employment Law
Practice Area Overview
Employment law focuses primarily on labor law, but also addresses basic aspects of social security, immigration law, prevention of risks law, compliance, and diversity law, all of which are closely related. The different problems these bring to labor relations must be analyzed, so that a legal strategy for decision-making by Human Resources must be designed and executed, considering the varied and changing case law.
Attorneys in this area must have experience and be specialized in all these areas of concern, but at the same time they may have the ability to convey these concerns as normal strategic solutions. Labor attorneys need to have the ability to negotiate, be excellent litigation practitioners, and have relationship with the authorities and trade unions. These are the basics for the profession, and they must know how to adjust to the special circumstances of each case and each situation.
Labor attorneys provide services to individuals and companies who require counsel regarding employment relationships, individual and collective terminations (including termination where commercial elements may be mixed), implementation of restructuring plans and designing and negotiating collective bargaining agreements, designing non-competition and other typical agreements, labor law issues in connection with due diligence procedures and audit matters, variable compensation plans, stock option plans, codes of conduct (participation in the design and implementation process of a number of internal Human Resources policies), and analyzing legal aspects of employment with regard to social networks. All this considering specific local laws but always keeping global practices in mind.
Max joined Crowe Tax & Legal in 2003 and has since then been Senior Partner and Head of the Labor Law Department in Barcelona. Max provides advice to companies in the process of staff restructuring, changing working conditions and collective bargaining. In addition, he is also a socio-occupational auditor and took part in operational due diligences, labor compliance development of variable remuneration systems and implementation of gender equality. He has also wide experience in litigatio...
Graduated in Law from the Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona in 1997, she completed a Postgraduate Degree in Labor Law and Social Security, which she combined with a Master's Degree in Family Law, both taken at the IDEC of the Universidad Pompeu Fabra. She has been a member of the Barcelona Bar Association since 1997 and is currently a member of the Special Benefits Commission of Asepeyo, also actively participating in various forums related to labor law. Núria has been practicin...
Julio has a large experiencie as a lawyer advising medium and big size companies and entities dependent on public administration in the labour and social security areas. He has participated in numerous collective bargaining agreements and collective dismissals including those carried out in GE Hydro Renewable Hydro Spain, FAGOR Electrodomésticos, S. Coop., Koxka Technologies, General Cable or Bruesa Construcción. His experience includes: advising, negotiating and managing all ty...
JOSÉ ANTONIO GALLARDO CUBERO Lawyer. Member of the Royal Academy of Jurisprudence and Legislation (Spain) and the Permanent Conference of Ibero-American Academies of Jurisprudence. Studies. José Antonio has a Law degree from the Faculty of Law of the University of Madrid (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) with Honours. He holds a Master's degree in Business Law from the Madrid Bar Association (Spain); Advanced Program in Labor Relations, Instituto de Empresa (IE Law School, Spa...
Se inició en el ejercicio profesional de la abogacía en 1986. Durante 15 años fue Jefe del Departamento Laboral del despacho Ventura Garcés&López-Ibor. Anteriormente, dirigió su propio bufete de abogados y fue Jefe del Departamento de Recursos Humanos en una empresa del sector de la distribución. Su dilatada trayectoria profesional le ha llevado a prestar asesoramiento laboral a un gran número de empresas pertenecientes a todos los s...
Licenciada en Derecho por la Universidad Pontificia de Comillas (ICADE) desde 1994 y, además, María se cualificó como Solicitor of England & Wales en 1998. Con más de 15 años de experiencia, es especialista en asesoramiento laboral integral a empresas tanto desde un punto de vista del derecho nacional como en asuntos laborales y de Seguridad Social con componente internacional. También tiene amplia experiencia en el ámbito de las Transaccio...
Luis Jiménez-Arellano is a lawyer, member of the Bar Association of Ciudad Real since 2004 and of the Bar Association of Madrid since 2009. He has completed a Master's Degree in Labor Law at Centro de Estudios Financieros (CEF) and has extensive experience in the defense of labor, civil and criminal lawsuits . He joined Bufete Mas y Calvet in 2009, where he has specialized in Labor Law , Civil Administrative Litigation and Criminal Law . He collaborates with media in articles about lab...
Sergio Juárez is a Partner in the Employment Law department of Andersen Tax & Legal at the Madrid office. He previously worked at Olleros Abogados, CMS Albiñana & Suárez de Lezo and Garrigues. Sergio is a specialist in comprehensive legal and employment advice to public and private sector companies (national and international), as well as in litigation in all levels of the social jurisdiction, and in administrative proceedings before the Labour Inspectorate and So...
LLB from Universidad de Barcelona and Master’s Degree in Corporate Legal Consultancy from Instituto de Empresa. He joined Crowe Legal and Tax in 2017, and has since been a partner in the Labor Law area at the firm’s offices in Barcelona. He has been a partner in the Labor Law area of Cuatrecasas since 1997, and previously worked in the Barcelona offices of Ernst & Young. He has extensive experience in advising businesses on labor matters, particularly in relation to restructur...
Director responsable de asesoramiento en pensiones, PwC España. Cuenta con 30 años de experiencia en los que ha liderado numerosos proyectos en materia de previsión social, tanto a nivel nacional como internacional, enfocados en el diseño y transformación de sistemas de previsión, control de riesgos y buen gobierno, contabilización y auditoría de compromisos por pensiones, asesoramiento en procesos de fusiones y adquisiciones, asesoramie...
Director de PwC Tax & Legal Services. Licenciado en Derecho por la Universidad de Sevilla (especialidad en Derecho de la empresa) y Máster en Dirección y Gestión de Recursos Humanos por el Centro de Estudios Financieros en 2004. Tiene una amplia experiencia profesional en el ámbito del asesoramiento laboral a un gran número de entidades del sector público y privado, en materias tales como asesoramiento recurrente, relación laboral individua...
She embarked on her professional career in the field of HR, a period that culminated in her becoming head of this department at Dupont Powder Coatings Ibérica. Subsequently, in 2004, she began her professional practice as a lawyer, managing her own law firm, and in 2014 she became a partner in the Employment Department of the law firm Garcés & López-Ibor. In October 2020, together with Tirso Gracia, she created Galibier Legal, a boutique specialising in labour law.Mar...
LLB from Universidad de Barcelona (1990). Admitted to the Bar of Barcelona in 1992. Partner within the Labor Law area at the Barcelona offices of Crowe Legal y Tributario since July 2017. Ms. Parra started her professional career as a Corporate Labor Relations Lawyer in 1991. Member of the Legal Area of the Spanish Trade Union UGT between 1993 and 1994, she resumed her career as a corporate legal advisor in 1995. In 1996 she joined the Labor Law area of Cuatrecasas in Barcelona and became a p...
LLB from Universitat de Girona and LLM from Instituto Superior de Derecho y Economía (ISDE), Gloria Reig has spent nearly her entire professional career working within the Labor Law area of Cuatrecasas, a firm she joined in 2000 following a 2-year period at Ernst&Young. She became a partner of Crowe Legal y Tributario in 2017. She advises both national and international companies of different industries on Labor Law and Social Security matters, regarding both recurring and specific...
Jaime Silva is a Partner in the Employment Law and Social Security Department at the Madrid office of Andersen Tax & Legal. He previously worked at Garrigues CMS Albiñana & Suárez de Lezo and Olleros Abogados. Jaime Silva is a specialist in labour litigation and legal advice to companies in public and private sector and he has wide experience in IT industry and the posting of workers abroad. In the academic field, Jaime is lecturer in several programmes about Labour Law ...
KPMG Abogados Address: Edificio Torre Europa, Paseo de la Castellana 95 Tel.: +34 91 451 31 45 Email: furia@kpmg.es Educational background Phd in law from Complutense University Law Degree. Alicante University. Professional experience Francisco has extensive experience in financial regulation, particularly in the banking, capital markets and insurance areas. He is also a recognized specialist in competition law, field in which he has published several publications. At KPMG, Francisco manages ...
Labor lawyer and Ph.D. in Law , starting with an internship at Cuatrecasas law firm (BCN office), followed by a first employment contract with Uría Menéndez (BCN office), where he was able to learn in the labor and commercial areas, to finally join the boutique law firm Gutiérrez Arrudi Abogados Laboralistas, in the city of Zaragoza, where he is still practicing law. Likewise, the prestigious law firm 4.0. "Ambar Partners" incorporated him in 2020 to its team as a "Partne...
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