Luis Enrique Pérez

Practice Areas

Luis Enrique Pérez is a senior associate at PPO, and he is a member of the Labor Law and Social Security teams.

Within his main practice, he provides counseling to the country`s most important companies with respect to their company-worker relations. To this effect, Luis Enrique provides consultative counseling concerning staff hiring, restructurings for the closure of companies, individual processes about labor-related aspects in general, which adjust to the juridical company-worker relationship.

With respect to transactional matters, he has directed due diligence processes concerning labor matters, and, in this sense, he has actively participated in the review and negotiation of corporate transactions for the sale of companies and assets, as well as commercial agreements for the subscription of financing, distribution and licensing agreements.

In a parallel manner, he has a vast experience providing counseling to clients with respect to labor processes initiated by former employees and syndicated workers, both before administrative as well as judicial entities.

Before joining PPO, Luis Enrique Pérez worked in a Civil and Commercial Court in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, where he acquired a broad experience in procedural practice.

MEMBERSHIPS

Santa Cruz Bar Association – ICACRUZ

Public Bar Association (RPA) under Bolivia’s Ministry of Justice.

Career

Luis Enrique Pérez is a senior associate at PPO, and he is a member of the Labor Law and Social Security teams.

Within his main practice, Luis Enrique stands out for providing specialized advice to the most important companies in the country, regarding their company-employee relations and expatriate matters. In this sense, Luis Enrique has vast experience and provides unique advice on hiring personnel, immigration and migration processes, restructuring due to the closure of areas or companies, individual processes on labour aspects in general, that adjust to a company-employee legal relationship, standing out in the legal market for its multilingual assistance and its particular vision to help expatriates established in Bolivia.

In transactional matters, he has directed and carried out due diligence processes in labour matters, and, in this sense, he has actively participated in the review and negotiation of corporate and labour transactions for the sale of companies and assets of multinational and local companies, as well as commercial agreements for the signing of worker transfer contracts.

In parallel, he has specialized know-how providing advice to clients regarding labour processes initiated by former employees, former contractors and unionized workers, both before administrative and judicial instances with completely successful results in all cases.

Before joining PPO, Luis Enrique Pérez worked in a Justice Court in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, where he gained extensive experience in procedural practice.

In recent years he has been recognized and commended consecutively by the “Legal 500” for the quality of his services to clients and as an “Associate to Watch” by Chambers & Partners

Professional Memberships

Santa Cruz Bar Association – ICACRUZ

Public Bar Association (RPA) under Bolivia’s Ministry of Justice

Publications

La implementación del Estatuto Andino Migratorio – Un desafío para Bolivia (2022)

Personal

Luis Pérez is a team player who enjoys and thrives in establishing dynamic relationships with his clients.

Languages Spoken

Spanish

English

Clients

Rolon

Avon

Fexpocruz

Dxn

Berry Appleman & Leiden

Roche

Makiber

Astara

Rotam

Corteva

BBO

Belcorp

Work Highlights

Luis Pérez worked as the leader in the restructuring process for the dismissal of 50 % of the personnel from our client, Corteva Agriscience with total success.

Industry Sector Expertise

Oil and gas

Retail

Pharmaceutical

Mining

Industrial

Expert in these Jurisdictions

Bolivia

Experience

Labour Law

Litigation

Corporate Law

Immigration Law

Awards

Education