‘One of the few full-service firms with a solid labour and immigration practice’, Carey’s 22-strong labour and employment law practice acts for domestic and overseas companies on employment compliance, investigations and global mobility issues, as well as expatriates, immigration, benefits packages, M&A due diligence, and the employment aspects of transactional work. Other significant corporate employment areas include hiring processes, employee taxation, social security, corporate policies, labour auditing, subcontracting, and individual and mass terminations. On the litigation side, the department’s expertise covers high-stakes cases before the Labour Courts in relation to sexual harassment cases, violations of fundamental rights, wrongful dismissals, work-related accidents and anti-union practices. The practice is co-led by Óscar Aitken, who has over 30 years’ experience in employment matters; employment and immigration expert Francisca Corti, an adviser on benefits, compensation and internal investigations, whose transactional employment experience during 2024 includes assisting with approximately 70 transactions; and employment litigation and collective bargaining expert Francisco Arce. The practice further includes counsel Valentina Kuscevic, who advises on corporate restructuring processes, including M&A and due diligence; while in the associate ranks, senior Paulina García, along with Gonzalo Herreros, Cristóbal Balic and Marcela Tapia complete the team. In January 2025, former associates Carla Karzulovic and Constanza Trisotti departed the firm.
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Testimonials
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‘Professionalism. Quality and response times. Collaboration and teamwork. It has highly trained lawyers, is timely, and delivers impeccable quality.’
‘It's one of the few full-service firms with a solid labour and immigration practice. They are very well prepared, but above all they have a unique service attitude.’
‘Carey's team is solid, balanced and diverse. It is well-distributed across the different levels of seniority, which translates into excellent delivery and high-quality deliverables.’
‘Carey's team has extensive experience in multinational matters and the necessary relationship between the local legal framework and foreign corporate guidelines. One of the key points of their practice is that they are always at the forefront, developing specialties in line with legal changes and market needs.’
‘All teams include a partner and/or director, a senior associate, and a couple of junior associates. This guarantees continuity in the handling of client matters.’
‘Their constant exposure to complex transactions and matters with a marked international or cross-border nature positions them as the most complete team in the market.’
‘Francisca Corti's leadership translates into the excellent training of current team members, as well as other lawyers in the region who have been trained by her at Carey.’
‘Francisca Corti is a highly accomplished lawyer, who also has a highly developed commercial and practical vision, which translates into very comprehensive advice, as it includes legal analysis, as well as operational suggestions, from which the client benefits.’
'The ability to address complex issues that require the intervention of other areas of law.'
'We generally work with Valentina Kuscevic and Francisca Corti. I think they both have a deep understanding of legislation, updates, and different industries, so their advice always includes a relevant component of what's actually done in practice.'
Key clients
- Vela Software Group
- JP Morgan
- Boart Longyear
- BioMarin
- ReSimple
- Safetypay
- WOM
- Minera Spence (BHP)
- HDI Seguros
- Cencora - World Courier
Work highlights
Advised LatentView Analytics on the labour due diligence for the acquisition of 70% of the outstanding equity of Decision Point Private.
Advised DaVita on the labour due diligence for the acquisition of the Chilean dialysis business of Fresenius Medical Care.
Advised Vela Software Group on the labour due diligence for the acquisition of Samtech Chile.
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Paulina García
Practice head
Óscar Aitken; Francisca Corti; Francisco Arce