Marco Vargas

Senior Associate
  • Biography

    Marco is a Midlevel Associate at the Firm´s Lima office. He focuses his expertise on labour litigation and has over five years of experience in several labour and employment disputes. He is responsible of the litigation portfolios of the area and he has actively participated with favourable outcomes in high-profile claims. 

    Marco also has very important knowledge and experience in labor day-to-day and outsourcing matters advice to clients in different industries, such as mining, consumer goods and retail and professional services, technology.

  • Experience

    • Defense of employers before judicial and administrative authorities in wrongful terminations, outsourcing distortion, wage and working time compliance, salary discrimination, occupational diseases, accidents at work, trade union and social security matters.
    • Advise in personnel hiring, implementation of companies' internal policies, contracting and modification of labor conditions, disciplinary procedures, layoffs.
    • Legal counseling and negotiation on individual and collective employees' internal claims.
    • Advise on labor subcontracting, outsourcing and group of companies' labor matters.
    • Audits and due diligence of labor juditial and administrative proceedings.
  • Education

    • Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru, Bachelor in Law, 2017.
    • Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru, Lawyer, 2019.
    • Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Specialization Degree in Labor and Social Security Law, 2022

    Admission

    • Lima Bar Association
  • Additional Information

    Experience

    • Associate at Estudio Echecopar, Member Firm of Baker & McKenzie International, 2019.
    • Legal Assistant at Estudio Echecopar, Member Firm of Baker & McKenzie International, 2017 - 2018.
    • Legal Intern at Estudio Echecopar, Member Firm of Baker & McKenzie International, 2015 - 2017.
    • Legal Intern at Deloitte & Touche, 2015.
    • Legal Intern at Produmar - Profand Group, 2014.

    Academic Experience

    • Assistant teacher of "Efficient Legal Communication" at Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru, 2018 - 2019.
    • Volunteer at Disability and Human Rights Legal Clinic of IDEHPUC, 2013.