Catalina Santos > Brigard Urrutia > Bogota, Colombia > Lawyer Profile
Brigard Urrutia Offices
CALLE 70A #4-41
BOGOTA
Colombia
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Catalina Santos
Work Department
Labor & Employment; Immigration; ESG & Impact Investing
Position
Partner
Career
Catalina joined the firm in 2005 and, after completing her master’s degree and professional experience abroad, she returned in 2012 to lead the Labor and Employment Team. She has more than 13 years of experience exclusively devoted to the area of labor law and social security. During that time, she has advised companies in a host of matters related to individual and collective labor law and social security issues.
She worked during 4 years as an associate of the labor area at Garrigues in Madrid (Spain) where she advised and represented in court Spanish and foreign companies in matters related to individual, collective and social security law. Furthermore, she pursued additional studies in Labor Law and Social Security at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. Currently, she alternates her practice with lectures on Labor and Employment law at the Colegio de Estudios Superiores de Administración (CESA).
Languages
Spanish and English
Education
Catalina is a graduate of the School of Law of the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana and is admitted to practice in Colombia by the Consejo Superior de la Judicatura (2005) and in Spain by the Ilustre Colegio de Abogados de Madrid (2008). She obtained a LL.M degree in International Legal Practice at Instituto de Empresa in Madrid, Spain. She also obtained an Executive Master degree in Business Law from Centro de Estudios Garrigues, in collaboration with the Harvard Law School in Madrid, Spain.
Lawyer Rankings
Colombia > Labour and employment
(Leading individuals)Brigard Urrutia’s labour and employment practice is noted for its ‘sense of immediacy, willingness, and promptness’. Among its other distinguishing features, the group’s ability to draw on the wider international-facing firm, as well as its membership of global labour and employment law alliance Ius Laboris, ensures that it is a popular choice to advise multinational clients. Department head Catalina Santos handles advisory and contentious work, including restructuring processes, collective bargaining and transactional support matters. The team also draws on director José Alejandro Sierra (sports law, and labour and employment), and senior associates Daniela Caicedo (‘empathic and business oriented’) and Camilo Mutis (‘understands the sense of urgency’). Since publication, both Caicedo and Mutis have been promoted to associate practice directors (effective as sof January 2024), allowing Sierra to focus more fully on sports law and gaming matters.
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