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Carolina Porras

Carolina Porras

Latin America 2026

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About

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Latin America

Practice Areas

Labor

Career

Partner at PPU expert in Labor Law, Social Security and Migratory. Her professional practice focuses on advising local and foreign companies in matters of individual labor law, collective, social security and immigration. She has experience representing companies in labor disputes. Carolina is equally dedicated in the attention of consultations on all matters of labor law. She has a vast experience in matters related to local and foreign mergers and acquisitions.

Professional Memberships

Member of the Labor attorneys school, Colombia, 2014-2015.

Member of the Labor committee of the Amcham, Colombia, 2011-2015.

Member of the Labor committee of the Andi, Colombia, 2010-2015.

Personal

Carolina has a Law Degree from Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (2005). She also has a Postgraduate Degree in Administrative Law (2007) and Labor Law (2009) from the same institution. Besides, she has a Master’s Degree in International and European Labor Law from Tilburg University (2010) and a Labor Law Specialization from Universidad de Salamanca (2014).

Work Highlights

Counsel to a Privately held development company in day-to-day labour, social security, and migratory advice to guarantee the company's compliance with local law.

Counsel to Nokia Solutions and Networks Colombia LTDA in the implementation of an annual salary adjustment guideline, the modification of other benefits calculated based on the employee’s salary as a global decision, and the transformation of salaries from

integral to ordinary ones.

Counsel to Risk Consulting Colombia S.A.S. in a comprehensive labour due diligence to verify a client's compliance with labour laws and regulations.

Languages Spoken

Spanish and English

Chambers Review

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Labour & Employment - Colombia

Band 5
Band 5

Individual Editorial

Head of department Carolina Porras has well-established experience in the areas of social security and labour and employment in Colombia.

Strengths

Provided by Chambers

  • Carolina has solid expertise in Colombia’s complex labour landscape. She clearly lays out all scenarios, is persuasive with employees, and has manged to helped us even in the most challenging cases.

    Labour & EmploymentChambers Latin America

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