Vinatea & Toyama

Firm Details:

Managing Partner: Luis Vinatea

Number of partners: 11

Number of other lawyers: 46

Languages: English, Spanish

Firm Overview:

Vinatea & Toyama is the largest specialized practice firm in Peru in labor law & employment, renowned for handling the market’s most complex, sensitive, and strategic matters.

The firm has 4 areas: (i) Advisory, (ii) Litigation, (iii) Inspections, and (iv) Labor Relations. To date, the team is made up of 46 labor lawyers, led by eleven partners with more than 30 years of professional experience: Jorge Toyama, Luis Vinatea, Roberto Matallana, Herbert Prelle, Renato Mejía, Magaly Alarcón, Alfredo Salvador, Eduardo Mercado, Juan Carlos Girao, Fabiola Maza, and Alfonso Higa. Our expertise in this practice has allowed us to simultaneously handle several major conflicts or complex situations.

Our services included labor planning (individual and collective), labor litigation, collective or individual bargaining and labor arbitration, labor inspections and audits, and occupational health and safety. Additionally, we have developed a specialized protocol for preventing and resolving sexual harassment cases, and we provide clients in the C-suite or at the workforce level training on preventing harassment, as well as on health, labor, and trade union trends and sensitivities.

Through a flexible, experienced, and creative team, Vinatea & Toyama provides solutions to transnational and national companies from a wide range of industries, including agriculture, banking and finance, mining, telecommunications, wholesale and retail, construction, education, manufacturing of consumer goods, and healthcare, among others.

Vinatea & Toyama has joined since June 2022 the international network of independent law firms Ius Laboris.