Monsalvo Duclaud
The ‘multi-expertise’ labour offering at Monsalvo Duclaud acts across a broad range of matters, from consultancy and social security matters, to labour litigation and union negotiations. Clients include leading domestic names in a variety of the country’s biggest markets, as well as multinational companies. Key contacts in the team include: co-managing partner Luis Monsalvo Álvarez, who focuses on compliance for foreign investors; fellow co-managing partner and head of social security, Alan Duclaud Ampudia; high-risk collective and individual conflict specialist Luis Monsalvo Valderrama; consultancy practice head Isabel Pizaro Guevara; Lidia Monsalvo Álvarez, who works on constitutional appeals; and Andrés Cámara Pérez, who is also social security partner.
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Testimonials
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- ‘Excellent communication. Trained and updated lawyers. Availability of partners in matters of relevance. Good value for money. Process speed. Proximity and understanding of the business.’
- ‘Luis Monsalvo Álvarez: great team management, impeccable knowledge in labor matters, availability, strategic vision and creativity in proposing solutions.’
- ‘Multi-expertise firm in the labor world, from social security, consulting to litigation, with a group of reactive experts. Very adapted to transnational companies.’
- ‘Lawyers very up-to-date, proactive and attentive to clients. in particular Luis Monsalvo Alvarez and Alan Duclaud.’
- ‘The most sophisticated labor law firm I have ever worked with, attentive, responsive and up to date an all aspects.’
- ‘Luis Monsalvo Junior is by a mile and a half the most sophisticated labor practitioner I have met, he is a corporate lawyer with a vast labor acumen. He and all of his partners are savvy, professional and a pleasure to work with.’
Key clients
- Ford Motor Company
- Volkswagen de México
- Inditex
- Coppel Group
- Four Seasons at Tamarindo
- Irongate / Costa Palmas
- Samsung
- Beiersdorf
- Philips
- Biomet
- Confederation of Industrial Chambers of Mexico (CONCAMIN)
- National Institute for Nuclear Research (ININ)
Work highlights
- Advised Grupo Coppel on the legitimisation processes of all the collective bargaining agreements that the company has with its unions across the country.
- Advised the Four Seasons hotel on simultaneous negotiations with the national union leader in Mexico City, as well as those held before the Secretary of Labour in La Paz.
- Advised Irongate on compliance with the new outsourcing provisions as a result of the 2021 labour reform.
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Luis Monsalvo Álvarez, Alan Duclaud Ampudia, Luis Monsalvo Valderrama, Isabel Pizarro Guevara, Lidia Monsalvo Álvarez, Andrés Cámara Pérez