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Mireia Sabaté

Partner
Baker & McKenzie Barcelona S.L.P.

Biography

Mireia Sabaté is the managing partner of Baker McKenzie's Barcelona office, a partner in the Employment and Compensation practice in Barcelona and a member of the EMEA Employment Steering Committee of the Firm. She practices mainly in the areas of labor and employment law. Mireia also regularly teaches at universities, having lectured on labor institutions and litigation at ESADE Law School in Barcelona and conducted training on employment termination at ISDE (Higher Education Law and Economic Institute). She teaches courses on social security law at Universitat Internacional de Catalunya. She has also provided training in equity law at the Barcelona Chamber of Commerce and in the free transfer of employees at the Barcelona Bar Association.

Practice Focus

Mireia regularly counsels clients on employment relationships (ordinary or special), employment contracts, individual and collective terminations (including top executives), implementing restructuring plans, and designing and negotiating collective bargaining agreements, noncompetition and other typical agreements, labor law issues in connection with due diligence matters, variable compensation plans, stock option plans and codes of conduct. She also focuses on labor litigation, social security matters, risk prevention, diversity law and human resources. She has participated in the design and implementation of a number of internal human resources policies for different clients.

Professional Honors

  • Ranked in Employment in Spain & Barcelona, Chambers Europe

Professional Associations and Memberships

  • Barcelona Bar Association

Admissions

  • Barcelona~Spain (2001)

Education

  • EADA (Master's Degree Human Resources Management) (2011)
  • ESADE (LL.M.) (2001)
  • Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) (Degree Labour Sciences)

Languages

  • Catalan
  • English
  • French
  • Spanish