Lorena Arámbula
Latin America Guide 2024
Band 2 : Labour & Employment
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Band 2
About
Provided by Lorena Arámbula
Practice Areas
Employment and Labor; Immigration; Labor and Social Security Law; Litigation and Dispute Resolution; Media, Entertainment and Sports; Corporate
Career
Lorena is a partner and heads the Firm’s Employment and Labor group. She is regularly ranked as a leading lawyer in the field by major legal directories. She combines her position as head of the labor and immigration team with her commercial and corporate practice.
Her experience covers the full range of labor and employment, including ongoing advisory and compliance work, immigration, compensation and employee benefit arrangements.. She is involved in sensitive litigation proceedings before Colombia’s labor courts. She has extensive experience advising on labor, immigration, and business laws and regulations, including the incorporation, acquisition, and start-up´s hiring packages, design and implementation of broad-based equity compensation plans and the full range of executive share and options plans, including performance-based packages.
Lorena and her team are constantly recognized for their proactive solutions to local and foreign-based companies, ensuring that employers are fully protected against any future claims.
Professional Memberships
College of Work Lawyers.; International Bar Association.
Publications
IBA GEI Annual Global Report, IBA Global Employment Institute, 2019.
The International Comparative Legal Guide to Labour Law, Global Legal Group, 2011 – 2015.
Social Security Regime in Health before and after Law 100 of 1993.
Work Highlights
Multinational companies: Providing legal advice on shares, options, and other plans for the employees of several multinational companies in sectors such as financial services and others.
Various companies: Advising on matters related to major transactions’ labor and social security aspects. Some of the companies involved belong to sectors such as energy production and solutions, airports operation, and financial services, among others.
Several companies: Providing advice at different stages (response to requirements to declare or amend, motion for reconsideration, annulment and restoration of rights actions, etc.) of the control proceedings on contributions to social security and parafiscal contributions developed by the UGPP (Unidad de Gestión Pensional y Parafiscales - Pensions and Parafiscal Management Unit). Counseling on the termination procedures in which the clients were able to timely benefit from the exemptions granted by the newly adopted tax reform which allowed them to save 80% of the sanctions imposed by the UGPP as well as well as of 80% of the interests being charged over outstanding contributions to social security in health, labor risks and payroll taxes.
Languages Spoken
English ; Spanish
Education
Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
Law Degree
1996
Universidad Colegio Mayor de Nuestra Señora del Rosario
Specialist Diploma, Financial Law
1998
Universidad Colegio Mayor de Nuestra Señora del Rosario
Diploma, Labor Law
2000
Universidad Externado de Colombia
Specialist Diploma, Social Welfare
2008
Awards
Labor & Employment (Band 2).
Chambers Latin America
2023
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