The labour and employment team at Cuesta Campos y Asociados S.C. handles regulatory, transactional, and contentious labour law matters, with expertise in termination processes, hiring strategies, collective bargaining negotiations, as well as audits and compliance investigations. Gerardo Valencia leads the group in Guadalajara as an expert in strategic planning, union negotiations and labour audits. He is supported by senior associates Sandra Chávez Juárez, who handles individual and collective labour disputes, and Mexico City’s Adrián Pérez Pastrana, who is praised for his expertise in collective bargaining. Jose Antonio Gallástegui and Ana Cristina Becerra contribute to the full spectrum of labour matters as junior associates.
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Testimonials
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- 'The Cuesta Campos team provides excellent legal advice. They are our legal eyes and ears on the ground in Mexico, and have been invaluable across all aspects of corporate, employment, litigation and real estate law.'
- 'Cuesta's lawyers are exceptionally diligent and responsive. I am always thrilled with the speed and quality of their legal advice. Particularly noteworthy attorneys are Sandra Chávez Juárez and Ana Cristina Becerra. They are fantastic!'
- 'The capacity of the lawyers and the specialisation they promote within their range of services make them very competitive in the area of labour law.'
- 'Adrian Pérez Pastrana stands out for his attitude of service and his knowledge of collective bargaining.'
Key clients
- Flextronics Manufacturing Mex
- Toyo Ink
- Hella Automotive Mexico
- Sephora Mexico
- Altimetrik Mexico
- Nextiva Mexico
- OVG Mexico
- Motive Technologies
- EPAM
- Natures Touch Mexico
- Pelemix
- Porsche Digital Mexico
Work highlights
Represented Toyo Ink, a core business of the Artience Group dedicated mainly to printing and packaging-related businesses, in a labour action, obtaining an appeal for review by Mexico’s Supreme Court of Justice and a favourable resolution from the Labour Board.
Assisted Bright Machines, a leading company that, directly or indirectly, performs activities related to industrial automation and/or production processes in general, as well as the production and automation of all types of equipment and machinery, with the implementation of a compliance-related investigation, execution of a termination process without liability for the company and the definition of the courses of action to be followed to correct and/or address the areas of opportunity detected.
Assisted Jabil Circuit de México, S.de R.L. de C.V., a leading company that manufactures, produces, assembles, imports and exports products for the communications, electrical, metallic and electronic industries, among others, with the successful preparation and execution of the termination without liability of 11 employees that incur in several misconducts (e.g., conflicts of interest, harassment, among others) during the provision of their services, process that included the analysis the evidence and documentation gathered by the Company’s Human Resources and Compliance Department.
Practice head
Gerardo Valencia
Other key lawyers
Sandra Chávez Juárez; Adrián Pérez Pastrana; Jose Antonio Gallástegui; Ana Cristina Becerra