Uribe Legal

Specialist labour and employment boutique Uribe Legal provides tactical and strategic advice regarding individual and collective labour law, covers social security matters, and undertakes judicial representation at all court levels. The team also handles matters ranging from preventative advice regarding labour restructuring and labour due diligence, to documentation, dismissals, remuneration, immigration issues, investigations, and defending administrative proceedings and fines. Already enjoying a strong client roster, the firm has also proved attractive to new clients, adding more than 15 in little over a year. An eminence among labour practitioners, senior partner Enrique Uribe Casasbellas has over 40 years’ experience and today focuses on the design and implementation of highly complex litigation strategies. Currently managing partner of the firm, Enrique Uribe Errázuriz heads up the individual and collective counselling areas, as well as leading on various complex litigations. Heading the firm’s contentious practice, Silvestre Lyon specialises in complex litigation – his significant recent mandates include the successful defence of Sodimac against former supplier Microblend, and advising Starbucks Coffee Chile on the strategy and defence of an anti-union practice lawsuit. Pablo Prieto focuses on labour and social security law, particularly complex litigation, collective bargaining, strategic labour planning, and labour advisory; he is also a specialist in public policy regarding labour issues, having formerly worked at the Ministry of the Presidency and Ministry of the Interior and Public Security. Completing the partner team, María de los Ángeles Bittner is an established labour litigator; while senior associate Trinidad Castro G is active in complex litigation and labour advisory, as well as handling both labour and sexual harassment investigations.