Team

Ignacia
López

Partner

Ignacia has specialized in strategic labor counseling and highly complex litigation, her experience of more than a decade as an in-house lawyer and human resources manager of a large company, gives her a practical vision to design solutions adjusted to reality.

Degree: Chile, 2007.

Experience

Ignacia rejoined the firm in 2022 as a partner. She heads the Labor and Social Security area, which includes labor counseling, litigation and corporate migration. Her main focus is strategic labor counseling and the defense of employers before labor courts and authorities.

She has extensive professional experience in labor relations management and labor policy design, conducting complex investigations, as well as in sensitive collective bargaining processes.

He advises national and multinational employers of various sizes and sectors, such as health, mining, commerce, shipping, industrial and technological services, among others. He has specialized in the implementation of organizational and legal changes, as well as in conflict resolution with respect to workers, unions and executives, focusing on the reality of the company and its sustainability. He has represented trade associations before the Labor Commission of the Senate, the Labor Directorate and the Constitutional Court.

Advice to

  • Legal defense of large mining companies in highly complex labor lawsuits, including illegal stoppages, anti-union practices, among others.
  • Strategic labor advice to companies in the health sector in the implementation of legal changes, collective bargaining processes, qualification of minimum services, exceptional working days, among others.
  • Strategic advice in the mining, banking, health and financial sectors in the implementation of relevant regulatory changes, such as working hours and harassment.
  • Judicial labor defense of a casino company with complex civil, criminal and antitrust issues.
  • Labor counseling and legal defense of retailer present throughout the country.

Education

  • Diploma in Management of People and Organizations, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, 2018.
  • Diploma in Corporations and Financing, Universidad de los Andes, 2013.
  • Master’s in business law, Universidad de los Andes, 2013.
  • Diploma in Labor Procedural Reform, Universidad de Chile, 2009.
  • Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Law School, 2004.

Academic Activities, Recognitions and Memberships

  • Member of the Labor Commission of the Confederation of Production and Commerce.
  • Member of the Labor Commission of the Bar Association.
  • Member of the Circle of People and Organizations of ICARE.
  • President of the Human Capital Committee of the Chilean-British Chamber of Commerce.
  • Steering Committee of the Center for Labor Law CEDET A.G.

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Languages

  • Spanish
  • English