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Luis Ricardo Ruiz Gutiérrez

Luis Ricardo Ruiz Gutiérrez

Work Department

Employment

Position

Partner at Hogan Lovells BSTL, Labor Law, including issues regarding Mexican Social Security Institute and INFONAVIT

Career

Luis Ricardo Ruiz Gutiérrez interned in the Civil Litigation department of the firm González de Castilla, S.C., from 1973 to 1977, after which he joined Barrera, Siqueiros y Torres Landa, S.C. as an attorney and later became a partner in the firm. He has worked on numerous labor matters for different subsidiaries of General Electric, especially on the acquisition and sale of companies and resulting labor repercussions in terms of managing personnel. He has also been involved in FEMSA Coca-Cola bottler plant closings. He has negotiated with various unions to review collective bargaining agreements for companies such as Pfizer, Coca-Cola, Bacardi and General Electric, among others; and has also handled work stoppages negotiated with unions. He wrote his thesis on “El consentimiento viciado del asegurador en el contrato de seguro” (The invalid consent of the insurer in the insurance contract) for the Escuela Libre de Derecho (1980). He also wrote chapter 12 titled “Labor Relations in Mexico,” in the book. He also co-authored An Introduction to Doing Business in Mexico (1995), with William E. Mooz Jr.,  and the Chapter of References de Labour / Employment about México for Latin Lawyer e with Hugo Hernández-Ojeda Alvíreze very year starting in 2011.

Languages

Spanish and English.

Education

Luis received his law degree from the Escuela Libre de Derecho (1973-1978).

Leisure

He has spoken at various seminars on the topic of strikes for the human resources personnel, plant managers, and legal department of General Electric.