David has more than twenty years' of experience advising domestic and foreign clients on labour, immigration, and social security matters deriving from investments, set up, day-to-day operations and activities, mergers and acquisitions and other corporate restructurings. He has extensive experience in collective negotiations in general but specifically in the electricity and automotive industries, individual and collective litigation, and that involving credits issued by social security institutions.

Until 2020, David was the president of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce in Mexico (CANCHAM), Monterrey Chapter.

Languages
Spanish and English.

Bar Admissions
He has been Coordinator of the Labor Law Committee of the Mexican Bar of Lawyers in Monterrey.
He was President of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce in Monterrey.
He was Coordinator of the Human Resources Committee of AMCHAM.
He is coordinator of the Labor Committee of the Mexican Institute of Finance Executives.
Member of the International Bar Association and the American Bar Association.
He was an Expert Translator of the English-Spanish language, authorized by the Superior Court of Justice of the State of Nuevo León.

Significant Accomplishments
He has been recognized by Chambers & Partners Latin America Band 2 and in Monterrey at Band 3, as well as in Legal 500, Who's Who Legal and Latin Lawyer 250.
David Puente is one of the country's most prominent labor and social security lawyer, with extraordinary recognition in the northern region.


Professional Associations

• American Bar Association
• International Bar Association
  
• ANCHAM

• Verification of Federal Labor Inspectors

  By David Eugenio Puente Tostado, Luis Álvarez |July 2026