Tatiana Garcés Carvajal

Practice Areas

Our team has experience in all areas of labor law and in most industries. We have the advantage of being able to work with lawyers from other areas of the firm in order to guarantee comprehensive advice. We manage labor issues with our tax and corporate law groups, as well as contracts, data protection and compliance and litigation, among others. Additionally, we work in a multijurisdictional manner with our network of 74 offices around the world to form a group of 700 specialists in labor law, thus forming a specialized team in the largest area in the world. Our responses are practical and focused on business needs, offering alternatives that resolve or mitigate legal risks according to the client's budgetary, administrative or corporate policies and risk apetite. We are rigorous with budget management, customer service and response times. Urgent matters are taken care of immediately.

Professional Memberships

"Colombian Labor Law Bar Association

Javeriana Law School Bar Association

Founding Member of Women in Connection Colombia

Member of ACRIP Legal Committee

Member of ANDI Labor Relation Committee"

Publications

"Author of several articles on Colombian labor law, published in the journal ""Legal Review Latin America"".

Speaker at the seminar ""Constitutional Court Rulings: Individual and Collective Law,"" at Universidad Sergio Arboleda.

Professor of the course ""Labor Protection Institutions and Intermediation Systems,"" labor law post-graduate program at Universidad Sergio Arboleda, 2006 and 2007.

Professor of the undergraduate law course ""Individual Labor Law II"", in the Labor Law Department of Pontificia Universidad Javeriana

Speaker at ACRIP conferences about relations with expatriates.

Speaker at the conference: ""Labor Migration in the context of a Globalized Economy."" 13th National Meeting of Labor Committees, ANDI, Medellin, October 2010.

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Personal

"Tatiana Garces Carvajal is a lawyer and a specialist in Labor Law, graduated from Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, with post-graduate studies in Commercial Law from Universidad de los Andes.

She has over 30 years of experience advising major clients on matters related to individual and collective Labor Law. For three years, she worked at Alcalis de Colombia, occupying the positions of Director in charge of the HR Department, head of the Legal Division of the Betania Plant, and as a Lawyer in the Legal Department. Previously, she worked as Head of the Personnel Department at AGA Ltda., and as a paralegal at the law firm Esguerra, Gamba, Barrera y Arriaga Asociados.

In addition to her experience as professor, lecturer, author of several publications and arbitrator in labor collective disputes, she served as technical adviser to the employers’ delegate for Colombia at the 98th Session of the International Labor Organization in Geneva (2015). She also participated at the 93rd Conference (2009). Currently, Tatiana is a member of the Javeriana University Law School Council representing graduates from Universidad Javeriana.

She joined Baker McKenzie Bogotá office in 1992 as an Associate in the Labor Law department and was appointed partner on July 1st, 2000. In 2017 she was appointed as Managing Partner for Baker McKenzie Bogotá office, which made her the first woman in Colombia to hold this position in a law firm. In addition to this position, she led the Employment and Compensation group in Latin America, until June of 2021."