Luis Parada

• Several (national and international) platform companies: Advised clients in adaptation of business model to new standards of “independent worker of platforms” law, before enactment of new statutes on the matter.
• Top notch international company: Assisted the company in a negotiation with the union of acquired company, with a high stake of work force unionized, to adapt the existing CBA in order to equalize benefits to global standards of that company.
• Successfully assisted an international industrial gas company in its collective bargaining, taking part in the negotiation table.
• Assistance of international life sciences company, in drafting a policy for remote work outside the country.
• Supporting an important local agri-business conglomerate in retention of key executives, preparing sophisticated agreements and analyzing different tax and labor consequences for the client.
• Assistance of international company in the negotiation of non-compete agreement with a former general manager.
• Assistance of a retail conglomerate in a complex collective bargaining with its union, in order to adapt benefits to a new economic reality.
• Defense in court of local subsidiary of an important international food producer, in a series of wrongful termination claims due to fraudulent administration.
• Advised an international life sciences company in its local employee’s transfer strategy, related to the global carve-out of an important line of business.
• Advised an international fintech, in the employment and tax treatment of a Stock Option Plans and Restricted Stock Units plan, offered and paid by a foreign entity to employees of the local subsidiary.
• We assisted an international catering company, in the transfer of an important foreign manager to Chile, equalizing a more favorable employment treatment of severance compensation, according to the home country practices of that person.
• Support to a top notch think tank, in a complex termination of an employment agreement, with focus in correct allocation of copyrights for the client.
• Client in the field of sea ports: Advice the client with the retention of key executives and employees, during the closing operations process of the local company.
• Successful representation, in court of an international producer of mining, construction and forestry equipment, in an antiunion claim initiated by the Labor Directorate.
• Assistance of an international engineering company, in the investigation of a transnational claim of sexual harassment.

Chambers Latin America

• Band 1, Chile, Labour & Employment, (2024-2025)
• Band 2, Chile, Labour & Employment, (2018-2023)

The Legal 500 Latin America

• Leading Lawyer, Chile, Labour and Employment, (2021-2025)
• Recommended, Chile, Labour and Employment, (2017-2019)

Additional Recognitions

• Best Lawyers
  • Labour and Employment, (2019 – 2022)
  • Employee Benefits, (2019 – 2021)
  • Lawyer of the Year, (2022)
  • Immigration Law, (2022)
  • Thought Leader, (2022)
  • Labour & Employment, (2022)
  • Recommended, Pensions & Benefits, (2022)
  • Global Elite Thought Leader, (2022)
• Latin Lawyer 250
  • Labour, (2019-2020)
  • Highly Recommended, (2021-2022)
• Leaders League
  • Labour / Employment – Recommended, (2020)
  • Highly Recommended, (2021-2023)

• Chilean Bar Association 
• International Bar Association -Employment Law and Industrial Relations Committee, Nationality and Immigration Law Committee
• Chilean Society of Labor Law
• Chilean Center of Labor Law A.G.

Luis also participates in the Legal Commission of the Chilean Commerce, Services and Tourism Chamber (CNC), and is also a regular member of the Employment Commissions of the following business associations: Chilean Commerce, Services and Tourism Chamber (CNC) and Asociación de Industrias Metalúrgicas y Metalmecánicas A.G. (Asimet).