Vinatea & Toyama

Managing Partners: Luis Vinatea Partners: Magaly Alarcón, Renato Mejía, Roberto Matallana, Alfredo Salvador, Jorge Toyama, Luis Vinatea
Number of partners: 7
Number of other lawyers: 28
Languages: English, Italian, Spanish

Firm Overview:
Vinatea & Toyama is the largest specialized practice firm in Peru in labour & employment, renowned for handling the market’s most complex, sensitive, and strategic matters.
Led by a team with over 20 years of experience in labour, the firm’s strength in depth and range of expertise in this practice has allowed them to simultaneously handle several major conflicts or complex situations, as well as provide a complete range of services; from general labour and social security advice, planning and strategy to restructuring, complex litigation, collective bargaining, labour arbitration and negotiations with unions and the government.
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 & finance, mining, telecommunications, wholesale and retail, construction, education, manufacturing of consumer goods, healthcare, among others.

Main Areas of Practice:
Vinatea & Toyama’s practice is focused entirely to labour and employment law, comprising 36 fully qualified lawyers, including 7 partners and 2 senior counsels.
The firm provides clients with a full range of services, including strategic workplace planning & risk management, management & resolution of labour conflicts, sensitive, complex and highly relevant case litigation, management of individual and collective labour relations, strategy design for collective bargaining, counseling and defense planning in labour arbitrations, specialized advice on labour issues and occupational health and safety and counseling in labour restructuring.

Clients:
Vinatea & Toyama has advised the 10 largest employers in Peru, the 10 first companies considered "Great Place to Work", 100% of the employers that won the Association of Good Employers (ABE) awards, 9 of 10 of the companies with the highest turnover in Peru (Top 10,000) and the 10 most admired companies of the PWC research.
The firm’s main clients include: Telefónica, Banco de Crédito del Perú, PetroPerú, Grupo Repsol del Perú, Ripley, BBVA, Scotiabank, Glencore, Minera Aurífera Retamas, Cencosud, Minera Cerro Verde, Interbank, Minera Las Bambas, Mapfre, Alicorp, DirecTv, P&G, 3M, LATAM Airlines, Arca Continental - Lindley (Coca Cola Group), PepsiCo, LATAM, Southern Copper Perú, Unique, among others.

Contact: Luis Vinatea
[email protected]