Ms Tatiana Garcés > Baker McKenzie S.A.S. > BOGOTÁ, D.C, Colombia > Lawyer Profile
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Ms Tatiana Garcés
Work Department
Employment and Compensation
Position
Partner
Career
Tatiana has over 30 years of experience advising major clients on matters related to individual and collective Labor Law. For three years, she worked at Alcalis de Colombia, as HR Director in charge, head of the Legal Division of the Betania Plant, and Lawyer in the Legal Department. Previously, she worked as Head of the Personnel Department at AGA Ltda.
Tatiana advises on all aspects arising throughout the employment relationship, from hiring, managing, and exiting the workforce, in particular complex individual or collective termination cases and cross border matters. She concentrates on payroll benefits, quasi-fiscal contributions, labor audits, transfers and labor matters arising from mergers, acquisitions, and divestures along with tax and supply chain restructuring, including outsourcing and online modern workforce models. Tatiana handles high impact litigation cases for multinational clients, complex investigation matters, and compliance issues, with focus on diversity, equity and inclusion regulations and policies, and remote work models.
In addition to her activity as professor, lecturer, author of several publications and arbitrator in labor collective disputes, she served as technical adviser to the employers’ delegate for Colombia at the 98th Session of the International Labor Organization in Geneva (2015). She also assisted at the 93rd Conference (2009). Tatiana is a member of the Universidad Javeriana Law School Council representing their graduates.
She joined Baker McKenzie Bogotá office in 1992 as an Associate in the Employment & Compensation Practice and was appointed Partner and Leader on July 1st, 2000. In 2017 she was appointed as Managing Partner for Baker McKenzie Bogotá office, which made her the first woman in Colombia to hold this position in a law firm. In addition to this position, she led the Employment & Compensation Steering Committee for Latin America until June of 2021.
Tatiana was member of the Steering Committee of the Global Employment & Compensation Practice, as well as of the Global Policy Committee of Baker McKenzie. Tatiana continues as Leader of the Bogotá Employment & Compensation Practice, and as member of the Employment & Compensation Steering Committee for Latin America of Baker McKenzie.
Languages
Spanish - English
Memberships
- Colombian Labor Law Bar Association
- Javeriana Law School Bar Association
- Founding Member of Women in Connection Colombia
- Member of ACRIP Legal Committee
- Member of ANDI Labor Relations Committee
Education
- Course on Women’s Leadership on Boards of Directors, Fourth Promotion, CESA, 2021.
- International Program of Training for Lawyers on Companies and Human Rights, IBA – ANDI – Chamber of Commerce of Bogota, Bogota. October 2019.
- Manuel Teodoro Media Trainers, (Media Spokesperson Training, 2019).
- Seminarium (Executive seminar, Planning and Execution of the Business Strategy, 2019).
- 19th Partner Leadership Program (2017)
- Course of Management and Leadership in law firms, Universidad de Los Andes. First semester 2014
- Course of the International Labor Organization: “International Labor Standards for Magistrates, Jurists and Law Professors.” March 2012
- Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (Post-graduate studies Labor Law, 1997)
- Universidad de los Andes, (Post-graduate studies Commercial Law, 1991).
- Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia. (J.D.) (1988).
Lawyer Rankings
Colombia > Labour and employment
(Leading partners)The labour and employment practice at Baker McKenzie S.A.S. impresses with its ‘strong client knowledge and ability to provide immediate responses’, according to some. A prominent player in large-scale, cross-border, transactional support work, where it can link up with lawyers from across its global platform, the group also handles collective negotiations, high-stakes litigation and advisory matters, among others. Department co-head Tatiana Garcés contributes three decades of experience in advising on individual and collective labour law; she recently advised Huntsman International on the labour and employment aspects of the separation of its two business segments. Fellow co-head Evelyn Romero additionally leads the immigration practice for all of Latin America and is noted for her broad coverage of advisory, contentious and corporate support matters; she acted for Snowflake Colombia on the labour and employment aspects of its acquisition of an entity with a subsidiary in Colombia. The group also benefits from the growing experience of next-generation partners Maria Cecilia Reyes, who was promoted to partner in July 2023 and specialises in pensions, compensation and benefits, and labour negotiations; and Daniela Liévano, who was promoted to partner in January 2024 and heads the group’s litigation division. A deep pool of associates includes senior Gabriela Delgado, who co-ordinates the termination and redundancies’ team; and intermediate María Paula Dueñas, who leads the constitutional and administrative litigation units for the department.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Dispute resolution > Arbitration
- Competition and antitrust
- Corporate and M&A
- Labour and employment
- Dispute resolution > Litigation
- Tax