Labor & Employment, Antitrust & Competition, Arbitration & Litigation

Partner

Miguel E. Urriola M. is a partner in FABREGA MOLINO and head of the Labor department of the Firm.  He has more than twenty years of professional experience, focusing his practice in litigation, commercial, labor issues, and those concerning asset recovery.

Miguel has impressive experience handling complex strategic and reorganizational issues, trade union rights, consultation on redundancies and business transfers, industrial action, balloting, and collective labor law. Since 2005, he has participated as arbitrator in several arbitration proceedings at the Conciliation and Arbitration Centre of Panama.

Miguel has conducted complex and high-profile employment tribunal claims and employment litigation.  He is a distinguished negotiator of collective labor agreements in Panama.

Before FABREGA MOLINO, he was a partner of a prestigious law firm in Panama for sixteen years, representing local and international clients including multinational companies, family groups amongst others, in commercial, intellectual property, labor, and consumer protection disputes, both in Civil Courts as well as in Commercial Courts. He has been distinguished by prestigious international publications and directories such as Chambers Global, Chambers Latin America, and Who’s Who Legal in the area of dispute resolution and asset recovery.

Spanish English.

Panama Bar Association.

The University of Panama, Panama(LL.B., 1994). University of Science and Technology of Latin America, Panama (LL.M Corporative Law, 1999). Las Americas University, Panama. (Diploma in Panamanian Labor Law and Collective agreements Negotiations, 2005). Santa Maria la Antigua University, Panama (LL.M, Labor Law).