Juan José Hita

Practice Areas

He advises on all types of employment matters, with a particular focus on restructuring processes, collective bargaining and litigation before the labour courts. He has a solid reputation in the analysis of labour issues arising from complex local or international corporate operations and/or transactions, with a particular focus on transfers and/or reorganisations of staff, standardisation of working conditions, substantial modification of working conditions, geographic mobility, etc.

Career

Degree in Law from the University of Barcelona (1994).

Master's Degree in Human Resources Management at Centro de Estudios Financieros.

Professional Memberships

Member of the body of conciliators and arbitrators of the Labour Court of Catalonia.

Associate Professor of Labour Law at the University of Barcelona.

Member of EELA (European Employment Lawyers Association).

Member of FORELAB (Spanish Forum of Labour Relations).

Member of the Legal-Tax Commission of the AED (Spanish Association of Executives).

Publications

Founder and coordinator of the Forum "Debates Laborales" together with Grupo Manpower and Foment del Treball, and regular speaker at various forums on legal-labour issues.

Highlighted as a recommended specialist by the prestigious Chambers Directory

Languages Spoken

English

French

Spanish

Catalan

Experience

He started his professional career as a labour consultant in the U.G.T. trade union in February 1994.

He joined Gide & Loeff as a lawyer in the Labour Department in November 1995, a firm with which he collaborated until he joined Clifford Chance in June 1999, where he assumed responsibility for the Labour Department in Barcelona as counsel until September 2010.

He is currently a partner of the law firm Augusta Abogados.