Godoy

Since its founding over 31 years ago, Godoy Cordoba Abogados has excelled in highly specialized legal advice on labor law, social security and corporate immigration law. In the past 12 years, the firm has served as a legal labor adviser in Colombia for multinational companies, accomplishing significant mergers, acquisitions, labor audits, collective bargains and litigations, as well as important corporate immigration projects. Currently Godoy Cordoba is a member of Littler.

Areas of practice

Labor and employment consulting unit: the firm is a pioneer in the preventive consulting services offered from the moment it gets acquainted with the needs of human resources departments and their strategic role within organizations. Its attorneys act as permanent consultants for its clients in day-to-day issues as well as in their strategic matters, and contribute to mitigate the labor and employment risks and optimize the management of human resources.

Labor and employment litigation unit: with its proven and highly efficient methodology, the firm conceptualizes its defense strategies through the prior analysis of the associated economic, strategic and political risks to determine the necessity of a legal action. It covers the entire country with a wide network of allied attorneys.

Negotiation unit: the firm has extensive experience rendering in-person or distance consulting services in collective bargaining for organizations. It advocates for win-win collective agreements. It has strong experience generating mutual agreement scenarios in individual bargaining processes with top management employees too.

Auditing unit: the firm assists its clients in their ongoing labor and employment relations assurance processes and labor due diligence for corporate M&A processes with its specialized and inter-disciplinary team of experts and a set of technological tools; it renders internal and express labor auditing services to clients. The firm contributes to the management of labor and employment risks derived from the administration of human resources and to improvement of the corporate reputation and strategic position.

Immigration unit: the firm provides consulting services to conceive individual and collective immigration strategies. It designs global mobility policies, audits migration practices, and accompanies a client’s administrative processes and investigations in immigration matters. The firm processes all kinds of visas and permits among other immigration procedures.

Training unit: the firm keeps its clients updated with the latest regulatory, jurisprudence and doctrinal information and helps them avoid conflicts/disputes and guarantee harmonious labor environments. Its seminars for directors, human resources managers and legal departments offer tools to respond adequately to the constant changes that organizations face.

Procedures before the Ministry of Labor: the firm provides consulting services to clients, regarding downsizing programs, administrative investigations rendered by the Ministry of Labor as well as procedures before this government agency. In addition the firm offers labor law consultancy services during restructuring processes in businesses (downsizing, mergers, acquisitions, among others).