Salvador Pasquel Villegas

Practice Areas

Salvador Pasquel Villegas joined Baker McKenzie in 1994 and became a partner in the Firm’s Mexico office in 2002. He is a member of the North America Employment and Compensation Practice Group and chair of the Mexico City Labor Practice. He has extensive experience advising on collective bargaining, employment counseling in corporate restructures, labor policy planning related to acquisitions, mergers, divestitures, plant closings, redundancies, executive compensation and employee benefits, as well as investigation procedures, labor compliance, diversity and inclusion programs, and flexible working conditions.

Salvador has also represented Mexican employers before the International Labor Organization (ILO) in 2003 and 2010.

Salvador is a senior strategic advisor in collective bargaining, strike call procedures and collective labor litigation; harmonization of employment benefits, implementation of flexible work programs (including telecommuting, alternative working schedules and sabbaticals), compliance and risk management, employment discrimination, codes of conduct and workplace investigations.

He serves as trusted counsel to international companies on employment and social security matters arising from mergers, acquisitions, divestitures and redundancies, international assignments and termination of high level executives, including expats.

He is seasoned in labour and tax restructurings, outsourcing, design of executive compensation and employee benefits, profit sharing, pension funds, stock option plans, 401K plans, and the representation of Mexican and international corporations before Mexican labor authorities.

Professional Memberships

National Association of Corporate Lawyers - Member

Mexican Bar Association - Member

Publications

Author, "The New Administrative Appeal Regulation before the Mexican Social Security Institute"

Common speaker in labor conferences organized by the National Association of Corporate Lawyers

Participant, Seminar for Latin-American Labor Experts, organized by the International Labor Organization (ILO), in Turin and Bologna, Italy, and Toledo, Spain

Participant, 3rd International Labor Forum, sponsored by CONCAMIN, COPARMEX and the ILO in Mexico

Expert in these Jurisdictions

Mexico

Languages Spoken

Spanish, English

Education