López & Asociados SAS

Firm Details 

Managing Partner: Juan Pablo López Moreno
Partners: Juan Pablo López Moreno, Angélica María Carrión Barrero, Alejandro Miguel Castellanos López, Rocío Lagos Prieto, Ana María Rubiano Delgado.
Number of partners: 5
Number of other lawyers: 150

Firm Overview:
López & Asociados is a law firm devoted to practice Labour and Employment Law and Social Security Law, that has participated in the Colombian legal market since 2005, especially in Counselling and Representing companies, aligning the law firm with the strategic vision of its clients. It has a team of well-prepared lawyers, with the strongest academic credentials in the country, most of them acting as professors at the most respected Law schools and universities in Colombia. López & Asociados comprises more than 200 duly qualified and trained professionals, ready to provide top quality services to its clients.

López & Asociados is a labour boutique that rivals all others in terms of depth of understanding, commitment to its client, profound knowledge of the impact of labour issues in the wellbeing of its clients. Its standing in the business community is one of the highest levels and it is routinely sought out to deal with those labour issues which have the most impact on operations and strategy. The firm strives to offer innovative approaches to labour problems, such as trying to anticipate potential conflicts through the analysis of the environment and the impact of corporate plans of labour relations. Also provides a broad range of services in the labour and employment area, which include general counsel advice, litigation and labour issues that affect a company’s structure and internal policies. López & Asociados has a particularly strong expertise in collective bargaining where it has been recognised market leaders for several years. López & Asociados advises key clients across a wide range of industry sectors, including airlines, oil and gas sector, massive transport, technology, financial services, retail, telecommunications, among others. Advising both national clients as well as multinationals with local offices. López & Asociados has an active role in the main issues concerning labour relations and takes a proactive approach with its clients concerning them. The firm is currently active in training its clients in all issues relating Pension and Parafiscal Management Unit (PPMU)* as claims made run in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. It offers diagnosis, tailored made and personalised advice and counsel service, designed specifically to address clients’ needs depending on the economic sector or industry of the where they operate.

Languages: Spanish, English
Clients: The firm represents and advises over 533 clients, locally and internationally.

Main Areas of Practice:
•Labour and Employment Advice and Counsel: Corporate Counselling (Recruitment and compensation structures, Labour and employment policies, Layoff and disciplinary proceedings), Individual Employment Law Matters (Representation on Individual Matters before Administrative Authorities and other administrative proceedings) and Immigration services
•Labour Corporate Counselling: Labour relations – Communication among employers, workers and Trade Unions (Collective bargaining), Ministry of Labour and Control Agencies (Proceedings before administrative entities); Business Structure (Levels of internal and external normative compliance); Optimization and Labour Counselling (optimization and labour diagnostics emphasizing in Collective Labour Law, Analysis and structure of Labour Relations, Conflicts and the Labour Environment, Unit of knowledge (Environment Analysis- Trends of public policies in labour matters, Effects of those policies in specific niches of your business, etc. and Comprehensive training on key labour issues to align essential knowledge and good labour practices in labour matters within the company's interdisciplinary teams)
•Representation in Trials and Litigation: Ordinary Labour Claims (Ordinary and Special proceedings), Administrative Jurisdiction (Restoration of rights and nullity action), Constitutional Jurisdiction (Special injunction actions, Constitutional Court legal procedures, Constitutional actions for the protection of fundamental rights)

Alejandro Castellanos – Partner – Director in Trials and Litigation Area.

International Work:
López & Asociados is a proud member of L&E Global alliance, as the Colombian representative. A worldwide leader for cross-border labour and employment law services. Spanning 6 continents, L&E Global’s member firms are ideally situated to provide clients with pragmatic, commercial advice necessary to achieve their objectives, wherever they operate. As a L&E Global member, López & Asociados works closely with corporate, legal, human resources departments and corporate executives across a variety of sectors and industries to address the strategic and tactical issues that arise in the workplace.

Offices:
BOGOTÁ D.C.
Calle 70 # 7-30 - 6th Floor
Séptima Setenta Building
PBX: +57 601 340 6944

MEDELLÍN
Carrera 43A #5A-113
South Tower – Suite 613
One Plaza Building
PBX: +57 604 204 2220
Email: [email protected]