Raquel Flórez

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Raquel heads the People and Reward practice in Spain. She has 25 years of professional career at Freshfields, and was appointed to the partnership in 2008.

She specialises in global recruitment and retention issues, redundancies (both individual and collective), cross-border transactions, outsourcing projects, business transfers, global investigations, whistleblowing, remuneration policies, discrimination and harassment claims, human rights and economy-on-demand. She advises domestic and international cliets on both advisory and contentious work.

She is a member of the International Bar Association (IBA), the European Employment Lawyers Association (EELA) and of Spain's national association of labour law specialists ASNALA. In December 2020, Raquel was elected second vice-President of FORELAB’s Executive Committee, for a two-year term. She is the author of one of the chapters published by Lefebvre, sponsored by FIDE: “Derecho Social de la Unión Europea”, led by Mª Emilia Casas Bahamonde (ex-President of the Constitutional Tribunal and the first woman Professor of Labour Law and Social Security in Spain) and Román Gil (a partner at Sagardoy).