María is a senior associate in the employment, pensions and incentives practice in the Madrid office.
She advises major companies on all types of national and international employment related matters including negotiation with trade unions, employment restructuring processes, unions elections, staff management policies, senior management contracts and remuneration packages, incentive schemes, whistleblowing and health and safety. She has also wide expertise in defending clients before the labour courts both collective and individual processes. In addition, Maria is highly experienced in working with our clients on multi-jurisdictional transactions.
Background
She has a dual degree in Law and Political and Administration Science and a diploma in International relations by Universidad Pontificia Comillas de Madrid (ICADE) (Spain), partially studied at l'Institut de Sciences Politiques in Paris (France). She speaks Spanish and English. She is a member of the Ilustre Colegio de la Abogacía de Madrid (ICAM – Madrid Bar Association).
Experience & expertise
Selected matters
- a leading wholesale market intermediary in the financial sector on recurrent employment advice and advice on employee terminations
- a major Spanish IT provider for the global travel and tourism industry on legal employment advice and support on a sensitive situation arisen in the company involving a senior manager and a female employee. Our scope of work included case assessment, strategy, management of the termination of the employment contract of the senior manager, negotiation of the exit process and settlement agreements with both the senior manager and the female employee
- a global investment group on the labour due diligence related to the acquisition of a relevant stake in a company owner of a biogas and biomethane production platform in Spain
- one of the largest provider of cardiac and oncology care services in the world on the employment aspects and accompaniment in relation to the termination of the employment contract of one of its employees due to the outsourcing of its IT services
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