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Luis Parada

Luis Parada

Partner
US-LatAm Practice Group Regional Co-Leader, Employment
Luis Parada has ample knowledge of Chilean regulations. He is creative and can design complex strategies, and has an eagerness for prevention, which helps us strengthen our position in labour matters.
Chambers Latin America, 2025
About

Luis Parada leads the DLA Piper Labor & Employment practice group in Chile and is also a Regional Co-Leader in the US-LatAm Employment Practice Group.

Luis has extended and recognized experience advising local and foreign clients in matters such as adaptation of gig economy services to regional standards, compensation and benefits for senior executives, stock options, restricted stock units (RSUs) and other incentive plans, collective bargaining, high complexity labor litigation and internal investigations (i.e. antiunion practices, harassment and discrimination, impairment of human rights), global mobility, handbooks and policies, termination of highly ranked officers and reductions in force, labor due diligence processes, board director and manager training sessions, among other matters.

He also regularly advises clients about workforce restructuring and outsourcing, proprietary information and assignment of invention agreements, implementing employment restrictive covenants and tax contingencies of labor matters.

Bar admissionsChile

EXPERIENCE

  • A regional construction company in its defense against a lawsuit brought by the director of a union federation alleging anti-union practices
  • An important technology company operating in the retail industry in its defense in a crucial workforce trial in which an agent who provided services for more than five years was claiming the recognition of the labor relationship with the company. The trial was extremely relevant for the company and the stability of its business, as well as for the case law of the new law on digital platform employees
  • An important Chilean bank is investigating a claim of harassment at work by an employee against six co-workers in the context of years of an alleged complicated work environment
  • A retail holding company in a legal claim to reject fines that had been applied various times for the same infringement affecting different employees. The Court recognized that the company should not be fined more than once for the same violation, thereby annulling the fines
  • A company specializing in construction machinery maintenance in subcontracting lawsuits. The Labor Court of La Serena declared that there was no subcontracting regime and, therefore, that the employee's responsibilities could not be extended to the company
  • A construction machinery maintenance company in its successful representation in a collective bargaining process with a company being acquired by the client. A favorable result was a precondition for the closing of the transaction
  • A leading mobilization application on analyzing a service model involving contracts with driver groups that use its app to connect with users, including the labor implications under the Labor Code and the forthcoming Law on Platforms (Law 21.553)
  • A port company in the retention of executives and key employees while closing the operations of the local company
  • A company that produces industrial gases and medical oxygen in collective bargaining with its union
  • An apparel retailer in a complex collective bargaining process for one of the industry's largest customers
  • A company in the construction industry in a series of complex labor lawsuits
  • An international insurance company in the purchase of the life insurance portfolio and shares of its fund manager, advising on the successful transfer of all employees of such entity
  • A hotel chain in all labor matters related to the transfer of the operation under a long-term lease agreement
Languages
  • English
  • Spanish
Education
  • Diploma, Labor Law and Social Security, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, 2007
  • LL.M., Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, 2005
  • J.D., Central University, 2000

Awards

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

  • Lawyer of the Year, (2025)
  • Recognized, Labour and Employment, (2019 – 2025)
  • Recognized, Immigration Law, (2022 – 2024)
  • Recognized, Employee Benefits, (2019 – 2021)

Leaders League

  • Highly Recommended, Labour/Employment, (2021 – 2023)
  • Recommended, Labour/Employment, (2020)

Latin Lawyer 250

  • Highly Recommended, Labour, (2019 – 2022)

Latin Lawyer National

  • Highly Recommended, Labour, (2019 – 2020)

Who's Who Legal

  • Thought Leader, Labour and Employment, (2022)
  • Global Leader Recommended, Labour and Employment, (2019 – 2020)

Memberships And Affiliations

  • Employment Law and Industrial Relations Committee, International Bar Association
  • Nationality and Immigration Law Committee, International Bar Association
  • 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 Association of Metallurgical and Metalworking Industries (Asimet).

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