Advocate Ivan Quintero > Quintero y Quintero Asesores > Bogota, Colombia > Lawyer Profile
Quintero y Quintero Asesores Offices
CALLE 97 A # 8-10 OFC 405
BOGOTA
Colombia
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Advocate Ivan Quintero
Work Department
Colletive Bargaining
Position
I represent one of the main partners of the firm, fulfilling directive functions, I have promoted different collective bargaining processes with different organizations, sizes and complexities, besides contributing to the creation or renewal of multiple collective bargaining agreements. I am also in charge of the collective negotiations addressed in Peru and Ecuador.
Career
I am a lawyer specialized in Labor Law and Industrial Relations, Business Development and Globalization, Productivity and Business Competitiveness, Latin American expert in Labor Issues Labor Markets and Employment Policies.
As a labor consultant for the private business sector and state entities, for more than 30 years I have participated in more than 450 collective bargaining processes with industry, trade union and business unions, culminating with the drafting and signing of agreements collectives (Conventions and Covenants).
I have enough experience in the creation of multiple labor policies, in aspects such as hiring, disengagement, salaries, remuneration systems for results, extralegal benefits, regulation and rationalization, voluntary retirement plans, and early retirement programs .
I know and handle in depth the labor and pension reforms.
As a litigant I have participated defending public and private companies in more than 3,800 labor processes (ordinary, union, executive, etc.) before Courts, Tribunals and Supreme Court of Justice. I have also litigated before the contentious administrative jurisdiction defending state entities. In the same way, I have been an arbitrator in Labor Arbitration Courts. Expert in social security, I have participated in countless conferences seminars and forums on labor and pension reforms of the last 15 years.
Actively participated in the design and processing of the new administrative career law
In this condition I participated in the drafting of the decrees of liquidation, division, merger, restructuring, and modification of the plant of all the public entities of the executive branch of the national order that has involved the program and that have included highly complex labor management, participation in the design of hiring policies and remuneration of its employees. Management of Collective bargaining and union affairs.
Structuring and execution of plans and programs for labor modernization and reengineering for the competitiveness of the company and its workers
Languages
Spanish- English
Memberships
Main Partner of the firm
Education
I am a professional graduated from the Universidad del Rosario of Bogotá, Colombia, obtaining the title of Lawyer in the year 1,985.
Specialization in Labor Law and Industrial Relations. Externado University of Colombia, Bogotá. Title. Specialist in Labor Law and Industrial Relations.
Specialization course for Latin American experts in Labor Relations and Labor Issues Labor Markets and Employment Policies. University of Castilla de la Mancha, Toledo Spain – University of Bologna, Italy.
Specialization course: Business Development and Globalization. Productivity and Business Competitiveness. University of Zaragoza Spain – Training Center of the International Labor Organization ILO, Turin, Italy.
Course “Strategies for Local Economic Development”. ILO and Fonaes, Guadalajara Mexico
Lawyer Rankings
Colombia > Labour and employment
(Leading partners)Quintero y Quintero Asesores is lauded by some for providing ‘labour law strategy that is aligned with the client’s business’. The boutique firm is primarily recognised for its record in collective bargaining agreements, where it has represented domestic and multinational companies in over 1000 cases. The group’s experience additionally spans litigation (where it was successful in 85% of cases during 2024), transactional support work and general advisory matters. Ivan Quintero is commended for his ‘ability to unite legal and business strategy’ and is considered by many as a leader for collective negotiations; he recently teamed up with Saida Quintero and next-generation partner, Felipe Quintero, to advise Promigas on the transfer of 250 workers from its subsidiary, Enlace, to Accenture. Other key contacts include litigation head Alejandro Arias; Dina López, who serves as director of the collective labour department; and associate directors Jaime Solano and Alejandra Soler, who both maintain broad labour and employment practices. In a major development since publication, the firm has merged with a further four boutique firms – Ibarra Abogados Rimon Law, MPV Abogados, Prias Cadavid Abogados, and Torrado Angarita & Pinzón Abogados – to form new platform Signature Legal Group (effective as of February 2025).