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Practice Expertise
- Labor and Employment Law
Areas of Practice
- Labor and Employment Law
Profile
Ignacio Esteban Ros is a partner in the Labor and Employment Law practice.
Specializing in labor, employment and social security law, he joined Garrigues in 2007 and provides advice on strategic and particularly complex labor and HR issues to both domestic companies and multinationals across a wide range of sectors: technology, consulting, industrial, financial institutions, energy, automotive and pharmaceutical, among others.
In 2010 and 2011, he was seconded to NautaDutilh in Rotterdam (Netherlands) and Shearn Delamore & Co in Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia), where he had the opportunity to become acquainted with other legal systems and learn about labor and employment law practice in other countries, enhancing his legal advice in Spain.
He has participated in numerous significant domestic and international projects over the course of his professional career and is currently a legal adviser with proven expertise in the following areas, among others: litigation; collective labor relations; restructuring and collective layoffs; legal reports and opinions; outsourcing and insourcing processes; mergers and acquisitions; labor audits; social security matters; corporate welfare systems (pension plans and funds and group insurance); senior management; remuneration and compensation systems; labor union elections; company policies and codes of ethics; equality plans; specific training for employees and executives; the legal regime governing expatriate workers; and professional athletes.
Ignacio Esteban Ros is a member of the Madrid Bar Association and lectures and speaks at institutions and universities such as Universidad Europea de Madrid and Centro de Estudios Garrigues.
He is a regular contributor to financial publications such as Expansión.
Bar Admissions
Madrid Bar Association (ICAM)
Education
Degree in Law, Universidad de Zaragoza.
Master's Degree in Labor and Employment Law, Centro de Estudios Garrigues. Received the Aranzadi Award for best graduate.
Master's Degree in Business Law, Centro de Estudios Garrigues in collaboration with Harvard Law School.
Master's Degree in Labor and Employment Law, Centro de Estudios Garrigues. Received the Aranzadi Award for best graduate.
Master's Degree in Business Law, Centro de Estudios Garrigues in collaboration with Harvard Law School.
Areas of Practice
- Labor and Employment Law
Professional Career
Significant Accomplishments
Chambers & Partners: Europe Guide: Elite. "Ignacio Esteban has enormous technical brilliance and extensive experience". "He is absolutely excellent". "Ignacio Esteban is an extraordinary professional. He has technical skill, strategic vision, a capacity for influence and empathy, integrity and good leadership in managing his team".
Who's Who Legal: Labour, Employment & Benefits: Leading practitioner.
The Legal 500: Key Lawyer: "Ignacio Esteban Ros is adept in cross-border matters, having completed international secondments early in his career." "Tireless worker, absolute mastery of the subject, good public speaking, didactic (simple explanation for those of us who are not experts in the legal field), tenacity, ambition to win". "Ignacio Esteban is an outstanding example of the qualities of Garrigues as a firm. In addition to impeccable technical brilliance, he offers a broad global strategic vision to implement and address legal initiatives. I would also like to highlight his orientation towards diversity and his spirit of collaboration with internal and external professionals."
Best Lawyers in Spain: Labor and Employment Law category.
Seminars/ Presentation
Ignacio is a lecturer on the Master's Degree in Compliance Officer and the Advanced Course in Whistleblower Channel Manager at the School of Legal Practice at Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
In addition, as a lecturer at Centro de Estudios Garrigues, he has been teaching on various subjects related to labour and social security law, in the Master's Degree in Labour Law, the Master's Degree in Human Resources and the Corporate Compliance Programme, as well as in the "Aula Permanente" Programme, at the Summa University (Ferrovial) and in Orange training courses.
He is also a regular speaker at other universities and specialised national and international forums, such as CEPYME (Spanish Confederation of Small and Medium Enterprises), the Institute of Internal Auditors of Spain, the Institute of Family Business (IEF), the Real Madrid School of Studies of the European University of Madrid, the International Compliance Week, the Compliance Forum, One Day Compliance Barcelona, etc.
Chambers & Partners: Europe Guide: Elite. "Ignacio Esteban has enormous technical brilliance and extensive experience". "He is absolutely excellent". "Ignacio Esteban is an extraordinary professional. He has technical skill, strategic vision, a capacity for influence and empathy, integrity and good leadership in managing his team".
Who's Who Legal: Labour, Employment & Benefits: Leading practitioner.
The Legal 500: Key Lawyer: "Ignacio Esteban Ros is adept in cross-border matters, having completed international secondments early in his career." "Tireless worker, absolute mastery of the subject, good public speaking, didactic (simple explanation for those of us who are not experts in the legal field), tenacity, ambition to win". "Ignacio Esteban is an outstanding example of the qualities of Garrigues as a firm. In addition to impeccable technical brilliance, he offers a broad global strategic vision to implement and address legal initiatives. I would also like to highlight his orientation towards diversity and his spirit of collaboration with internal and external professionals."
Best Lawyers in Spain: Labor and Employment Law category.
Seminars/ Presentation
Ignacio is a lecturer on the Master's Degree in Compliance Officer and the Advanced Course in Whistleblower Channel Manager at the School of Legal Practice at Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
In addition, as a lecturer at Centro de Estudios Garrigues, he has been teaching on various subjects related to labour and social security law, in the Master's Degree in Labour Law, the Master's Degree in Human Resources and the Corporate Compliance Programme, as well as in the "Aula Permanente" Programme, at the Summa University (Ferrovial) and in Orange training courses.
He is also a regular speaker at other universities and specialised national and international forums, such as CEPYME (Spanish Confederation of Small and Medium Enterprises), the Institute of Internal Auditors of Spain, the Institute of Family Business (IEF), the Real Madrid School of Studies of the European University of Madrid, the International Compliance Week, the Compliance Forum, One Day Compliance Barcelona, etc.
Articles
Manual for Access to the Legal Profession. Labor Specialty". Collective Work. Tirant lo Blanch. 2025
250 Questions and Answers on the Whistleblower Protection Act. Law 2/2023, of February 20. Collective Book. Aranzadi. 2024
The countdown to implement a complaints channel catches companies off guard. El Confidencial. 2023.
How will companies adapt to the new ERTEs of the labour reform? Capital. 2022.
Variable severance payments will create legal uncertainty for companies. Economist & Jurist. 2022.
Digital desconexion fails in Spain. Confilegal. 2022.
Technology and artificial intelligence bring new criminal risks to companies. El Economista. 2022.
Labour reform: New temporary contracts. CEPYME. 2022.
Chaos in companies before the end of ERTE. El Mundo. 2022.
The latest labour reform imbroglio that could clog up the courts. Business Insider. 2022.
Keys to the labour reform: Resolving doubts. CEPYME. 2022.
The new ERTE, baptised by the Government as the RED mechanism. Confilegal. 2022.
Labour compliance programmes help companies to manage their risks. Confilegal. 2022.
Companies finalise their strategic plans for 2022 in anticipation of a more rigid labour framework. El Mundo. 2022.
Labour law and internal investigations. "Internal investigations in criminal compliance. Key factors for their effectiveness". Thomson Reuters Aranzadi. 2021.
Towards the standardisation of labour compliance. Garrigues Labour Blog. 2021.
The UNE Standard on labour compliance. Lefebvre. 2021.
Risk prevention and compliance in the labour sphere. "Corporate Defence and Compliance". Thomson Reuters Aranzadi. 2019.
Kisses that lead to dismissals. El Pa s. 2019.
Entrepreneurship needs a new labour framework. Garrigues Labor Blog. 2019.
Equality, the unfinished business. El Pa s. 2018.
Crime prevention (or compliance) and labour relations. Garrigues Labour Blog. 2017.
The future labour legislative framework: 55 proposals. Garrigues Labour Blog. 2017.
Advantages and disadvantages of the so-called "Austrian model" of severance pay. Garrigues Labour Blog. 2016.
What does the so-called "Austrian model" of severance pay consist of? Garrigues Labour Blog. 2016.
Don't let the unemployment paperwork scare you. Expansi n y empleo. 2013.
Five answers on unemployment. Expansi n y empleo. 2013.
250 Questions and Answers on the Whistleblower Protection Act. Law 2/2023, of February 20. Collective Book. Aranzadi. 2024
The countdown to implement a complaints channel catches companies off guard. El Confidencial. 2023.
How will companies adapt to the new ERTEs of the labour reform? Capital. 2022.
Variable severance payments will create legal uncertainty for companies. Economist & Jurist. 2022.
Digital desconexion fails in Spain. Confilegal. 2022.
Technology and artificial intelligence bring new criminal risks to companies. El Economista. 2022.
Labour reform: New temporary contracts. CEPYME. 2022.
Chaos in companies before the end of ERTE. El Mundo. 2022.
The latest labour reform imbroglio that could clog up the courts. Business Insider. 2022.
Keys to the labour reform: Resolving doubts. CEPYME. 2022.
The new ERTE, baptised by the Government as the RED mechanism. Confilegal. 2022.
Labour compliance programmes help companies to manage their risks. Confilegal. 2022.
Companies finalise their strategic plans for 2022 in anticipation of a more rigid labour framework. El Mundo. 2022.
Labour law and internal investigations. "Internal investigations in criminal compliance. Key factors for their effectiveness". Thomson Reuters Aranzadi. 2021.
Towards the standardisation of labour compliance. Garrigues Labour Blog. 2021.
The UNE Standard on labour compliance. Lefebvre. 2021.
Risk prevention and compliance in the labour sphere. "Corporate Defence and Compliance". Thomson Reuters Aranzadi. 2019.
Kisses that lead to dismissals. El Pa s. 2019.
Entrepreneurship needs a new labour framework. Garrigues Labor Blog. 2019.
Equality, the unfinished business. El Pa s. 2018.
Crime prevention (or compliance) and labour relations. Garrigues Labour Blog. 2017.
The future labour legislative framework: 55 proposals. Garrigues Labour Blog. 2017.
Advantages and disadvantages of the so-called "Austrian model" of severance pay. Garrigues Labour Blog. 2016.
What does the so-called "Austrian model" of severance pay consist of? Garrigues Labour Blog. 2016.
Don't let the unemployment paperwork scare you. Expansi n y empleo. 2013.
Five answers on unemployment. Expansi n y empleo. 2013.
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