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Felipe Alvarez Echeverry

Felipe Alvarez Echeverry

Work Department

Labour Law

Position

Managing Partner at Alvarez Liévano Laserna.

Career

Business labour consultant with more than twenty years of professional experience in consulting, collective bargaining, restructuring processes and attention to lawsuits. He provides legal advise to clients in different inquiries and legal proceedings before Colombia Courts. In addition, he represents clients before the Ministry of Labour, UGPP and other state entities. He has acted as umpire in different arbitration tribunals. Some of his clients: Unilever, Ramo, Takami, LATAM Airlines, Copa Airlines, Tigo-UNE, British American Tobacco, JGB, Johnson & Johnson, Roche, Scotiabank Colpatria, GNB Sudameris, Frontera Energy, Tuscany, AES Chivor, Terpel, Nissan.

Languages

Spanish, English

Memberships

Member of the directive council of the labour bar association. Member of ANDI (National Association of Businessmen of Colombia) labour committee. Member of ACRIP (Colombian association of industrial relationship and HR).

Education

Studied law at the Universidad Javeriana and obtained a specialisation in labour, employment and social security law at the same university. He thought Procedural Law at the Javeriana, and "Employment Contract" in the specialization of labor law at Universidad Sergio Arboleda. Is professor of the Continued Studies Department and in the certificate in conciliation and employment law at the Javeriana. He is professor at the postgraduate course organized by the Department of Continuing Education of the Faculty of Law at the Javeriana for ACRIP, providing labor law courses.

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