Juan Carlos de la Vega > Santamarina y Steta > Mexico City, Mexico > Lawyer Profile
Santamarina y Steta Offices
CAMPOS ELISEOS 345, FLOORS 2, 3 AND 11
COL. CHAPULTEPEC POLANCO
11560 MEXICO, D.F.
Mexico
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Juan Carlos de la Vega
Work Department
Labor and Employment, Social Security
Position
Managing Partner
Career
Juan Carlos, current managing partner of Santamarina y Steta, is also leader of the labor and employment practice group. He has over 36 years of professional experience handling both individual and collective labor matters.
Due to his important role in the resolution of union disputes in the mining and automotive industries in Mexico, he is recognized as a leading national and international lawyer in his area of expertise.
He has participated in a number of large national impacting union disputes representing the company. In fact, he has handled two of the five Rapid Response Mechanism derived from the USMCA, making him the go to labor lawyer for union related matters.
He also provides advice to multinational companies in the retail, hotel, and oil industries, among others, confronting the effects of labor legislation in terms of subcontracting matters and labor regulatory aspects in general. He has played a key role in the planning and development of the union strategy for the Mexican emerging private oil industry.
Recently, he has advised various relevant companies in the country in redefining their union strategy considering the challenges of the 2019 labor reform and the USMCA.
His work has been recognized by Chambers and Partners in Band 1.
Languages
English, Spanish
Memberships
Employment Law Alliance (ELA).
Vice President of the Labor Commission of the Employer’s Confederation of the Mexican Republic (COPARMEX).
Mexican Bar Association (BMA).
Deputy director of the Labor Commission of Index (National Council of the Maquiladora and Export Manufacturing Industry).
Education
JD
1989, Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City, Mexico
Specialization in Labor Law, Amparo Law and Corporate Law
1990, 1993 and 1994, Universidad Panamericana, Mexico
Bad Amissions
1991, Licensed to practice law in Mexico
Personal
INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE
In 1992 he collaborated in the labor area at Baker & Botts, Texas, USA.
Lawyer Rankings
Mexico > Labour and employment
(Hall of Fame)Santamarina y Steta’s labour and employment team is ‘one of the most recognised in Mexico’ and its ‘excellent lawyers’ are some of the country’s best-regarded advisors for collective bargaining issues and designing union negotiation strategies. Union conflicts are a standout specialism and the team has recently seen plenty of activity assisting companies with rapid response mechanisms. The team is also well-versed in representation before the Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare and the local labour ministries in several Mexican states. On the non-contentious side, the department works closely with transactional teams to support clients with M&A processes. Clients strongly endorse employment litigator Francisco Udave, who is one of four practice heads, along with Juan Carlos de la Vega
, the firm’s Monterrey-based managing partner; Andrés Rodríguez, whose expertise includes legal audits focused on labour compliance; and counsel María Elena Abraham, head of the firm’s immigration law department. A further key contact is counsel Jaime Vázquez, who represents clients at all court levels, as well as in investigations.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
Firm Rankings
- Banking and finance
- Capital markets
- Real estate
- Competition and antitrust
- Corporate and M&A
- Dispute resolution: litigation
- Intellectual property
- TMT
- Bankruptcy and restructuring
- Environment
- International trade and customs
- Life sciences
- Projects and infrastructure
- Tax
- Energy and natural resources
- Compliance