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08008 BARCELONA
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Sagardoy Abogados, member of Ius Laboris > The Legal 500 Rankings
Spain > Employment Tier 1
Sagardoy Abogados, member of Ius Laboris houses an impressive team of employment law experts distinguished for their ‘great knowledge of labour law‘ and ‘practical vision‘. Among its key areas of work, the practice is often retained to advise on litigation proceedings, collective bargaining agreements, redundancy arrangements and restructurings, with the team having recently advised a client on temporary redundancy proceedings for over 600 employees. Executive chairman Iñigo Sagardoy and managing partner Martín Godino share leadership of the practice in Madrid, which also features Román Gil and associate Ana Goerlich. Recently, the group has significantly strengthened its capabilities through the addition of Paola del Castillo in February 2022 from Gómez-Acebo & Pombo as well as the arrival of associates Marc Carrera from PwC Tax & Legal Services and Jordi Diosdado from Deloitte Legal in June 2022.Practice head(s):
Other key lawyers:
Román Gil; Ana Goerlich; Paola del Castillo; Marc Carrera; Jordi Diosdado; José Luis Fraile; Sonia Obradors; Montserrat Alonso; David Isaac Tobía
Testimonials
‘Sagardoy Abogados is one of the best labour law firms in Spain. They all have a great knowledge of labour law and also a much-needed practical vision to advise companies.’
‘A highlight is the direct participation of the partners in the matters with particular reference to José Luis Fraile, a magnificent lawyer with an extraordinary ability to handle complex lawsuits.’
‘Experience, technical knowledge and negotiation skills. Regarding the novelties in practice, its digital transformation and the firm commitment to client training. Diversity and inclusion is a hallmark of the firm.’
‘Sonia Obradors knows how to put herself perfectly in the client’s position to understand their needs. It is like having an in-house lawyer but with the expertise and knowledge of the highest quality of an external firm. She always makes innovative proposals and proposes very valid alternatives. Highly recommended!’
‘Both Iñigo Sagardoy and Montserrat Alonso are outstanding professionals. Their knowledge makes the client’s trust in them absolute. That without mentioning their human quality, closeness and true concern for their clients.’
‘David Isaac Tobía is a professional who gives confidence. In his advice he understands the needs of the business and always focuses on the practical. That is to say, he always looks for solutions that have a practical, realistic sense, and not strictly legal, something that not all legal advisers offer.’
Key clients
Pierre Et Vacances Group
Adolfo Dominguez
Sanitas
Amplifon Iberica
Vitaldent
Caixa Bank
Banco Sabadell
Indra Sistemas
Inditex
NH Hotel Group
Work highlights
- Advised Vitaldent on the purchase of 76 dental clinics in the insolvency proceedings of Dentix.
- Advised CaixaBank on all labour aspects of the merger process with Bankia, including the restructuring and reorganisation process derived from the operation.
- Advised Inditex on the procedure for substantial modification of working conditions and geographic mobility derived from the reorganisation of all the group’s chains in Spain.
Sagardoy Abogados, member of Ius Laboris > Firm Profile
Since 1980 Sagardoy Abogados has been a specialized law firm fully dedicated to the labour and employment law practice.
Practice areas: Employment, labour, immigration, employee benefits, pensions and social security. We are based all over Spain with six offices.
We provide a wide range of legal services in the area of human resources, both in advisory work and in litigation for corporate clients. Sagardoy Abogados has developed a wide range of legal services in Spain, mainly in litigation but also on restructuring and collective negotiation procedures. Iñigo Sagardoy is the chairman. Together with other partners, they lead a team of over 60 lawyers across Spain. Sagardoy Abogados also specialises in providing advice on employment and labour law to foreign companies established in Spain.
Sagardoy Abogados is a founding member of Ius Laboris, an alliance specialising in employment and social security law with more than 1,300 lawyers providing local human resources law expertise across the globe, with 44 member firms in 44 countries and coverage in more than 100 countries.
A key aspect of the firm is its exclusive focus on employment matters (only for companies) with most of the lawyers cooperating in academic areas (universities and institutions) thus giving the clients a practical approach to matters but with a continuous and profound update on the current employment trends.
In 2013, we created the Employment and Labour Relations Institute in order to create a think-tank to promote new changes in employment legislation as well as to analyse the impact of the labour reforms in the labour market and companies.
In 2015, we were elected as the European Specialized Law Firm of the Year by the prestigious publication The Lawyer.
In 2016, 2017 and 2018, we were elected as the Best Firm in Spain for Employment matters by the leading Spanish financial newspaper Expansión. This is the first three years of the awards granted by Expansión for the legal market.
Iñigo Sagardoy was elected as one of the Top Ten leading Employment Lawyers of the world by Who’s Who.
Martín Godino (managing partner) was elected as the top employment lawyer in Spain by the Client Choice Award.
In 2014, Iván Gayarre (partner) was awarded as one of the 40 leading lawyers in Spain under 40 years old.
Sagardoy Abogados has always had a strong educational interest and remained closely linked to academia. Almost all of the professionals in our firm are also lecturers, and many of them hold PhDs. Both our founding partner, Juan Antonio Sagardoy, and our current chairman, Iñigo Sagardoy de Simón, hold the Chair of Employment and Social Security Law at two different universities.
Our interest in research took material form with the creation in 2019 of the Sagardoy Business&Law School. The school’s foundations lie on the well-established educational activity of the Sagardoy Study Centre, which in recent years has been a constant source of sectoral studies on the latest trends in collective bargaining, barometers and observatories on the labour reform, as well as numerous analyses on specific aspects of employment relations.
Main Contacts
Department | Name | Telephone | |
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Employment law and litigation | Manuel Hernández | ||
Employment law and litigation | Josep Hallado | ||
Restructuring | Marc Carrera | ||
Restructuring | Jose Miguel Mestre | ||
Expatriation and immigration | José Miguel Mestre | ||
Expatriation and immigration | Sonia Obradors | ||
Feasibility and redundancy plans | Sonia Obradors | ||
Feasibility and redundancy plans | Marc Carrera | ||
Collective bargaining | Guillermo Puig | ||
Collective bargaining | Manel Hernández | ||
Employee benefit systems, pensions plans, and pensions funds | Marta de la Morena | ||
Employee benefit systems, pensions plans, and pensions funds | Guillermo Puig | ||
Occupational risk prevention | Josep Hallado Molina | ||
Occupational risk prevention | Marta de la Morena |
Staff Figures
Number of lawyers : 65 at this office : 9Languages
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Other offices : Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Other offices : Madrid Other offices : Seville- Employment