Baker McKenzie LLP

Employment and Compensation

Partner

Daniela is Local Partner at the Bogota office of Baker McKenzie. She graduated from the law school of Universidad de los Andes and, subsequently, pursued a postgraduate degree on Labor and Employment Law at the Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá. Afterwards, she coursed a Master in Laws at Columbia University in New York City. Daniela is currently admitted to practice law in Colombia and in the state of New York, United States. She joined the Firm in September, 2011.

Daniela is the head of the labor litigation team and the diversity, equity and inclusion team, which are part of the Employment & Compensation practice group.

Also, Daniela manages complex matters such as normalization of pension liabilities, employment aspects of mergers and acquisitions, payments based on equity, labor related issues on ESG strategies, massive lay-offs, among others. She also handles day-to-day issues such as the creation and implementation of ordinary and extraordinary compensation schemes, collective negotiations with unions, corporate policies on different employment, labor and human resources matters, management of supply chain and third parties, multijurisdictional working schemes, management of expatriates, employment payroll audits, among others.

Rankings:

Next Generation Partner, Labour and Employment, Legal 500 Latin America, 2024 Rising Star, Labour and Employment, Legal 500 Latin America, 2023. Rising Star, Labour and Employment, Legal 500 Latin America, 2022.

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Alumni of Universidad de los Andes. Employment lawyers association. New York Bar Association.

Columbia University, United States (LL.M Harlan Fiske Stone Award) (2016). Universidad Javeriana, Colombia (Post Graduate Degree Labor and Social Security Law) (2014). Universidad de los Andes, Colombia (J.D.) (2013).