Escandón Abogados

Managing Senior Partner: Alberto Escandon Villota

Number of partners: 4

Number of other lawyers: 10

Firm Overview:

Escandon Abogados is a specialized labour, employment, and social security law firm dedicated exclusively to providing corporate legal advice. The extensive experience and the excellent results in the matter handled by the firm, has promoted high confidence and strong relations with its clients who consider Escandon Abogados an ally in their daily matters.

Main Areas of Practice:

One of the most relevant areas of practice is labour law. The firm regularly participates in the implementation of the strategy and as a direct member of the negotiation team in different collective bargaining processes in companies such as Drummond Ltd., Manuelita S.A., CIAMSA, Compass Group Services SAS, Palmas del Cesar, and Tecnoquīmicas S.A., among others. The firm has extensive experience managing labour relations, aspects related to wages and hours, disciplinary procedures, hiring and termination of contracts, indemnities, policies, procedures, and handbooks, discrimination and harassment, executive compensation, and alternative dispute resolution. Collective bargaining agreement, layoffs, proceedings before the Colombian Ministry of Labour, litigation countrywide at Court and the Court of Appeals, Cassation before the Supreme Court of Justice, and administrative procedures before Colpensiones and the UGPP.

Areas of Practice:

■ Labour

■ Employment

■ Pension, Heath Care & Occupational Health & Safety

■ Litigation

■ Due Diligence

■ Alternative Dispute Resolution

■ Discrimination & Harassment

■ Proceedings before the Colombian Ministry of Labour

■ Proceedings before the UGPP

■ Proceedings before Colpensiones

■ Employment Management Relations in M&A Transactions

■ Labor aspects in M&A’s

Languages: English, Spanish.

Clients:

The firm clients belong to different sectors such as food, services, retail, oil and mining, energy, transport, communications, agroindustry, news, and media. Some clients are Drummond Ltd. Grupo Manuelita, Grupo GHL Hoteles, Organización Roa Flor Huila ORF S.A. – ORF, Beiersdorf S.A., Palmas del Cesar S.A., Compañía de Medios de Información CM& S.A.S., Ajover S.A., Manufacturas Pepal S.A.S., Transportadora de Gas Internacional – TGI S.A.E.S.P., Empresa de Energía de Boyacá S.A. E.S.P., Manufacturas Eliot S.A., Century Link S.A.S., Santa Anita de Napoles S.A., and Universidad del Area Andina, among others.