DLA Piper Chile

With sector specialisms in real estate, manufacturing, healthcare, banking, energy and construction, DLA Piper Chile's ‘expertise in labour law is invaluable’. The full-service labour and employment practice covers general labour advice, high-stakes employment disputes, and due diligence for mergers and takeovers. The six-strong team also advises employers on collective bargaining, employee layoffs, internal investigations, compensation packages, and benefits. With ’a deep understanding of clients’ businesses and their complexities’, practice leader Luis Parada also acts as the firm’s Latin America employment practice group co-leader. In the senior associate pool, Diego González focuses on contractual and corporate labour matters, compliance, due diligence, collective bargaining, immigration and labour lawsuits; and Ignacio Abogabir acts for Chilean and overseas clients in contentious individual and collective labour law matters.