Pérez-Llorca continues to cement its commitment to Mexico with the appointment of Juan José Soto Arias as a partner of the Employment practice area in the Mexico City office. This appointment is in line with the firm’s strategy to strengthen its main practice areas in the country, offering its clients world-class comprehensive advice in a constantly evolving regulatory and business environment.
With more than 25 years of experience, Juan José Soto Arias is a leading lawyer in this practice area, with a solid track record advising national and foreign companies in all areas of employment law, from M&A transactions to individual and collective labour disputes. He is also a professor of Employment Procedural Law at the Universidad Panamericana and has lectured at various academic institutions such as the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, the Universidad del Nuevo Mundo, the Universidad Humanitas, the Universidad del Valle de México and the New Element University.
Soto Arias joins Pérez-Llorca’s Mexican Employment team to strengthen a practice that is growing in importance in the Mexican economy and which currently consists of Luis Enrique Cervantes, Employment partner, and Santiago Villanueva, Social Security partner.
Jorge Mondragón, Country Chair of Pérez-Llorca Mexico, stressed the importance of this appointment: “Juan José’s arrival strengthens our ability to offer our clients comprehensive advice on employment law matters, in a context where talent management and regulatory compliance are at the heart of the business strategies of major companies operating or planning to operate in our country.”
