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Puy Abril has more than 17 years of experience. Throughout her career, she has balanced her role as a researcher and a lecturer with her role as a labour law adviser for companies. Her role as a consultant has allowed her to learn first-hand on the problems that arise out of employment legislation and to offer suitable solutions by thoroughly analysing each of the cases presented to her. PhD in Labour Law and Social Security Law (Summa Cum Laude/Premio Extraordinario). Her main area of expertise within the field of labour legislation focuses on Collective cases, Equality, Diversity and Work-Family Life Balance: design, negotiation, and implementation of equality plans and work-family life balance policies. In the last year, she has advised several important Spanish companies in the implementation of their equality plans.

Pedro Alonso has more than 20 years of professional experience in labour law advisory, advises on different matters in his field including ongoing advice, international mobility, labour litigation, labour and social security inspections, among others, for many different companies and groups. He has handled all types of cases before the Labour Courts, both at first instance and at an appeal and cassation stage, acting before the competent Labour Authority or Employment Inspectorate, as applicable. He has participated in collective negotiations with unions and work councils and also advised companies to negotiate their own collective bargaining agreement. He has also participated in many national and international transactions and advised for both during an acquisition process as well as in the post-merger integration. The advice has been in previous reviews and due diligence processes, and in the effective labour and social security implementation of the acquisition.

Alfredo Aspra is managing partner of the Firm, where he leads a team of more than 45 professionals in Spain, located in the Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia and Seville offices. Alfredo has more than 23 years of experience in the profession and specializes in advising national and international companies operating in both the private and public sectors in the practice of labour and employment law. Within the field of labour law, he is also an expert in: - Restructuring, Collective Dismissal Proceedings, Restructuring in Bankruptcy Proceedings, Layoffs, Plant Closures, and Deconcentration of production (transfer of companies, outsourcing and subcontracting of activities). - Negotiation of collective bargaining agreements, company agreements, substantial modifications of working conditions, internal flexibility mechanisms, arbitration agreements, unfair labour practices. - Litigation. Non competes, privacy, senior executives, injunctions, employee handbooks, employment policies, investigations, unfair dismissals. - Definition of legal mechanisms in complex issues of special business transcendence of collective character, building and drafting the corresponding agreement. - Advice on union law, electoral processes, strikes, discrimination, labour disputes, complaints and arbitration, defamation, warn act. Alfredo Aspra is a well-known professional in the labour law sector. He is a "go to" lawyer for the most difficult and complex issues that arise in Spain.

Jorge Caballero Álvarez

Labour lawyer and partner in charge of the Barcelona office. He has more than 23 years of professional experience in labour law advice, focusing his services on national and international companies, in all types of sectors and industries. His main areas of expertise within the field of labour law are focused on strategic and ongoing advice in the field of labour relations to all types of companies and business organisations, in litigation, in collective matters (restructuring and collective bargaining), in labour audits and in international mobility: - Ongoing labour law advice: for both private and public sector entities in all areas of labour and social security law. - Litigation: legal assistance in labour and contentious-administrative labour and social security proceedings. Collaboration and, where appropriate, legal management, preparation and assistance in labour and social security proceedings in all instances (labour courts, High Courts of Justice, the National High Court and the Supreme Court). - Restructuring: collective dismissals, temporary collective suspensions of employment contracts and/or reductions in working hours and labour reorganisations deriving from sale and purchase processes, mergers, spin-offs or segregation. - Collective bargaining: advice on collective bargaining agreements, extra-statutory agreements or pacts, internal flexibility mechanisms and other collective matters (company policies, equality plans, etc.). - Labour audits: review of labour and social security aspects. - International mobility: specialised advice in situations of international expatriation of employees and executives.

Mr. Juárez has more than 20 years of professional experience in labour law advisory for national and international companies alike, both within the public and the private domain, in all kinds of sectors and industries. His main area of expertise within the field of labour legislation focuses on collective cases and litigation. Thus, as part of the labour law discipline, he is an expert in: Complementary Social Welfare: undertaking or suppression, as the case may be, of commitments by reason of pensions and the creation of social welfare systems (Pension Plans of the employment system and/or collective life insurance contracts) conventional obligations in terms of commitments by reason of pensions, Pension Plans and Funds, collective insurance, etc. Legal Practice: Collective conflicts and controversies, dismissals for objective reasons, dismissals for disciplinary reasons, contract terminations related to the creation of a corporate succession, illegal transfer, unfair competition, etc. Restructuring: collective dismissals, collective suspensions of employment contracts and/or work schedule reductions and employment reorganisations in pre-bankruptcy and bankruptcy procedures, labour issues linked to corporate reorganisation in mergers, split-ups, split-offs or spin-offs. Collective Bargaining: statutory collective bargaining agreements (for a sector, for a company, or for company groups), extra-statutory agreements or covenants, substantial modifications to work conditions, geographical mobility, mechanisms of internal flexibility, etc.

Gonzalo Núñez Sarompas

Gonzalo is a lawyer of the firm with more than 25 years of experience in the field of labor and employment law, Social Security and occupational risk prevention. Throughout his career, which began in the Labor and Social Security Inspectorate, he has combined research and teaching tasks with advising leading companies, both national and international, as well as public and private. Of note are his advice and qualified experience in, among others, the following areas of specialization: Administrative procedures: labor and social security inspections, activity related to tax collection administration and the managing bodies for Social Security, Social Security registrations, etc. Health & Safety at Work: compliance with regulations and intervention in cases of administrative, criminal and civil liabilities. Collective bargaining: statutory collective bargaining agreements, extra-statutory agreements or pacts, internal flexibility mechanisms, equality plans, homeworking policies, etc. Corporate restructuring: collective dismissals, collective suspensions of employment contracts and/or reductions in working hours, internal flexibility measures as well as labor reorganizations linked to corporate restructuring. Legal practice: collective conflicts and litigation, labor law, dismissals, review of administrative acts, etc.

Jaime Silva has more than 20 years of professional experience in labour law advisory for national and international companies alike. His main area of expertise within the field of labour legislation focuses on top management/company administrators, collective matters, and litigation. He also advises on different matters in his field including ongoing advice, international mobility, labour litigation, labour and social security inspections, among others, for many different companies and groups. He is a specialist in labour litigation to companies in public and private sector and he has wide experience in construction and healthcare industry and the posting of workers abroad.