Carlos Hurtado

Carlos focuses on employment and employment benefits specialties; collective agreements negotiations; collective employee terminations (redundancy procedure); employment litigation; employment contracts; human resources; industrial disputes; social security; local, national and European works councils; trade union recognition procedures and elections; on-the-job training; occupational health & safety matters; mergers & acquisitions (employment and pension issues); workers compensation; employee benefits & executive compensation; executive terminations; employment taxation; pensions; executive transfers and immigration law.

As member of the Sports Law practice in Baker McKenzie Madrid, Carlos holds extensive experience in this area, and particularly in the football industry, where he regularly advices professional athletes and clubs in all the matters related to negotiation of contracts, transfers and compensation schemes, and has acted before football governing bodies and tribunals (FIFA / CAS) representing both players and clubs.

Employment & Compensation

• Advising an international software company in all the legal matters pertaining to the reorganization of the workforce of the client's operations in Spain and Portugal, including a reduction of 30% of the number of employees.
• Advising a major streaming platform in relation to the dismissal of part of the staff during the production of a TV series that it had already committed to produce in Spain due to exceptional circumstances in 2020.
• Advising and defending a major multinational technology services and distribution company in the collective action brought by the CCOO and CGT unions challenging the working conditions applicable to its employees in Madrid following the expiration of the company's collective bargaining agreement (CBA).

Sports

• Ongoing legal advice to several football clubs on all employment issues arising from the transfer of players, including the negotiation with the clubs and player's agents, the drafting of all relevant transfer documents, sponsorship agreements and image rights.
• Advising and representing soccer players in various proceedings before the FIFA Football Tribunal and the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS).
• Advising a US Investor in the potential acquisition of a Spanish LaLiga Second Division Club. Assistance included preliminary legal and financial due-diligence of the target Clubs, as well as strategic advice in the negotiation with CEOs of the target Clubs.

• Madrid Bar Association - Member