Drawing on the firm’s wider international presence, Baker McKenzie‘s labour and employment group has considerable experience advising on high-value, cross-border matters concerning restructurings, layoffs, and investigations, as well as litigation, M&A, and regulatory compliance. With a breadth of expertise, the team has a strong and expanding client roster, consisting of notable domestic and multinational companies from the technology, energy, and financial services sectors, among others. José Prieto co-leads the practice alongside Mireia Sabaté and specialises in collective negotiations, compliance, and labour-related fraud. Sabaté is the main point of contact for employment relationships, the design and implementation of HR policies, and employment contracts. Fermín Guardiola is another key practitioner.
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Mireia Sabaté is the managing partner of Baker McKenzie's Barcelona office, a partner in the Employment and Compensation practice in Barcelona and a member of the EMEA Employment Steering Committee of the Firm. She practices mainly in the areas of labor and employment law. Mireia also regularly teaches at universities, having lectured on labor institutions and litigation at ESADE Law School in Barcelona and conducted training on employment termination at ISDE (Higher Education Law and Economic Institute). She teaches courses on social security law at Universitat Internacional de Catalunya. She has also provided training in equity law at the Barcelona Chamber of Commerce and in the free transfer of employees at the Barcelona Bar Association.
Mireia regularly counsels clients on employment relationships (ordinary or special), employment contracts, individual and collective terminations (including top executives), implementing restructuring plans, and designing and negotiating collective bargaining agreements, noncompetition and other typical agreements, labor law issues in connection with due diligence matters, variable compensation plans, stock option plans and codes of conduct. She also focuses on labor litigation, social security matters, risk prevention, diversity law and human resources. She has participated in the design and implementation of a number of internal human resources policies for different clients.
Languages
Catalan, English, French, Spanish
Memberships
- Barcelona Bar Association
Education
- EADA (Master's Degree Human Resources Management) (2011)
- ESADE (LL.M.) (2001)
- Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) (Degree Labour Sciences)
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