Baker McKenzie Abogados, S.C.

The comprehensive labour and employment offering at Baker McKenzie Abogados, S.C. is one of the premier choices in the market for major companies undergoing significant workforce reorganisations across jurisdictions. The extensive international network of the firm helps facilitate this, as do the firms multiple office locations in Mexico, covering the central industrial hubs for the full range of key sectors. Beyond restructurings and their corresponding negotiations, the team also handles transactional labour mandates, collective bargaining agreements, labour litigation and employee transfers, among other issues. Based in Monterrey, practice head Ricardo Castro works closely with the M&A department and excels in complex transactional labour matters. Also in Monterrey, Alfonso García Lozano is similarly well versed in transactional work, as well as being one of the key labour litigation contacts. At the Mexico City office, Manuel Calderón's broad experience includes complex individual and collective litigation, as well as call-to-strike procedures; he heads the labour litigation department. Javiera Medina-Reza has a strong focus on employee transfers, while also advising on litigation; and Rosario Lombero Gonzalez who 'stands out for her openness and willingness to understand the needs of the company', focuses on compensation, benefits, pension plans, labour and social security matters, and outsourcing. Clients of collective bargaiing specialist Salvador Pasquel-Villegas appreciate his 'great command of labour, union and current issues', and more junior partners Liliana Hernández-Salgado and Gabriel Ortiz-Aguilar are further key contacts in Mexico City. In Guadalajara, María José Casillas González (immigration and labour advisory) is the name to note at partner level, while Humberto Ruiz Correa is a key associate at the Monterrey office.