Biography
Ms. López de Alós areas of practice include all aspects of employment law, workers’ compensation, wage and hour claims, and litigation defense to employers before federal and local courts as well as agencies such as E.E.O.C., PR Department of Labor, PR Department of Labor Antidiscrimination Unit, PR Wage and Hour Bureau, and PR Industrial Commission. She also has experience in civil and commercial litigation, having been an associate of the firm’s Litigation Practice Group for almost four years.
With over two decades of experience, she routinely provides advice on a broad range of employee related issues, with an emphasis on preventive counseling and compliance, with a practical approach aimed at prompt resolution to the satisfaction of all parties involved. Clients consistently recognize Ms. López de Alós responsiveness and success on providing strategic and practical advice.
As team Leader of the Labor and Employment Mergers and Acquisition Practice Team, Ms. López de Alós has been involved in numerous transactions for multinational companies and domestic industry leaders in a wide variety of businesses, assisting clients in the drafting and negotiation of employment related provisions tailored to Puerto Rico’s legal framework, transfer of employees’ requirements and successful transition processes. She has extensive experience in providing creative and effective legal counsel to clients during reorganizations, acquisitions, sales and mergers of businesses, and has worked extensively with U.S. and international law firms as local employment counsel in complex transactions.
Ms. López de Alós frequently assists clients with startups’ regulatory requirements filings as well as regular course of business mandatory filings, and closing of operations. She frequently assists clients with the preparation of employment contracts, employee handbooks and personnel policies. Ms. López de Alós also has extensive experience in conducting internal labor and employment related audits as part of mergers & acquisitions transactions or for ongoing businesses, in order to ensure compliance with local and federal statutory requirements.
She provides trainings to employees tailored to the particular needs of the employers’ industry as well as organizes and participates in seminars to employers to keep them updated on the latest developments of the applicable employee rights. Ms. López de Alós frequently consults and assists with employment matters for several International Banking Entities established in Puerto Rico.
For over a decade, Ms. López de Alós has been teaching the Rules of Professional Conduct review course for the Federal Bar Exam and regularly lectures on other subjects related to professional ethics. Before she became a lawyer, she enjoyed a distinguished career as a journalist, concentrating in medical research, culture and art. From 2001 to 2009, Ms. López de Alós was the Editor In-Chief of Labor Perspectives, the firm’s Labor and Employment Law quarterly newsletter that provided general information related to labor and employment law matters for clients.
Representative Cases
Some of her representative cases include:
- José A. Reyes Rivera v. PPG Industries, Inc., LEXTA 2015 50331-048 (March 31, 2015) KLCE 2015 00103 (dismissal, on summary judgment, of unjust termination claim under PR Act No. 80)
- Osvaldo Nieves Martínez et als. v. General Instruments, Inc. y/o Next Level, Corp., 2010 PR App. LEXIS 1646 KLAN20100000276 (April 30, 2010) (affirming partial dismissal of claims in wage and hour case involving 124 plaintiffs)
- Montalvo-León v. Wyeth Pharmaceuticals Co., WL 2905350, (D. Puerto Rico, September 24, 2007) (dismissal, on summary judgment, of age discrimination in employment action) (magistrate’s favorable report and recommendation)
- Marrero v. Schindler Elevator Corp., 494 F.Supp.2d (D. Puerto Rico, June 11, 2007) (dismissal, on summary judgment, of age discrimination in employment action)
Ms. López de Alós has participated in the legal team handling of the following key transactions:
- Employment counsel for leading advertising and marketing services global network in the reorganization of local advertising agency.
- Employment counsel for partial acquisition of local telecommunications business.
- Employment counsel for international corporation in partial acquisition of local IT solutions business.
- Employment counsel for global corporation acquisition of manufacturing, distribution and sales of paint products corporation.
Practices
News & Publications
News
- February 16, 2018
- Three McV attorneys teach review courses for the Federal Bar examSeptember 23, 2015
Publications
- An McV Labor & Employment AlertJanuary 13, 2022
- An McV Labor & Tax AlertSeptember 22, 2021
- An McV Labor & Employment Law AlertSeptember 22, 2021
- An McV Labor & Employment Law AlertAugust 2, 2021
- An McV Labor & Employment Law AlertFebruary 9, 2021
- An McV Labor & Employment Law AlertNovember 4, 2020
- An McV Labor & Employment Law AlertOctober 13, 2020
- An McV Labor & Employment Law AlertAugust 24, 2020
- An McV Labor & Employment Law AlertAugust 17, 2020
- An McV Labor & Employment Law AlertJuly 6, 2020
- An McV Labor & Employment Law AlertJune 19, 2020
- McV Labor & Employment Law NewsMay 20, 2020
- May 4, 2020
- An McV Labor & Employment Law AlertApril 28, 2020
- An McV Labor & Employment Law AlertApril 14, 2020
- An McV Labor & Employment Law AlertMarch 30, 2020
- An McV Labor & Employment Law AlertMarch 25, 2020
- An McV Labor & Employment Law AlertMarch 20, 2020
- An McV Labor & Employment Law AlertFebruary 21, 2020
- An McV Labor & Employment Law AlertNovember 22, 2019
- An McV Labor & Employment Law AlertOctober 8, 2019
- An McV Labor & Employment Law AlertAugust 5, 2019
- An McV Labor & Employment Law AlertJuly 3, 2019
- An McV Labor & Employment Law AlertJune 19, 2019
- An McV Labor & Employment Law AlertMay 6, 2019
- McV Labor & Employment Practice GroupFebruary 28, 2019
- McV Labor & Employment Practice GroupJanuary 4, 2019
- An McV Labor & Employment Law AlertDecember 12, 2018
- An McV Labor & Employment Law AlertNovember 26, 2018
- An McV Labor & Employment Law AlertSeptember 24, 2018
- An McV Labor & Employment Law AlertAugust 14, 2018
- An McV Labor & Employment Law AlertJuly 24, 2018
- An McV Labor & Employment Law AlertJuly 24, 2018
- An McV Labor & Employment Law AlertJune 26, 2018
- McV Labor & Employment Practice GroupJune 12, 2018
- McV Labor & Employment Practice GroupMarch 15, 2018
- McV Labor & Employment Practice GroupFebruary 13, 2018
- An McV Labor & Employment Law AlertFebruary 2, 2018
- An McV Labor & Employment Law AlertJanuary 31, 2018
- An McV Labor & Employment Law AlertDecember 27, 2017
- An McV Labor & Employment Law AlertNovember 16, 2017
- An McV Labor & Employment Law AlertOctober 19, 2017
- An McV Labor & Employment Law AlertOctober 6, 2017
- An McV Labor & Employment Law AlertAugust 22, 2017
- An McV Labor & Employment Law AlertApril 10, 2017
- An McV Labor & Employment Law AlertMarch 13, 2017
- An McV Labor & Employment Law AlertJanuary 10, 2017
- An McV Immigration Practice AlertNovember 15, 2016
- An McV Labor & Employment Law AlertOctober 21, 2016
- An McV Labor & Employment Law AlertSeptember 6, 2016
- An McV Labor & Employment Law AlertJuly 1, 2016
- An McV Labor & Employment Law AlertJune 21, 2016
- An McV Labor & Employment Law AlertJune 21, 2016
- An McV Labor & Employment AlertMay 18, 2016
- March 8, 2016
- February 9, 2016
- January 7, 2016
Bar Admissions
- Commonwealth of Puerto Rico
- U.S. District Court District of Puerto Rico
- U.S. Court of Appeals First Circuit
Education
B.A., Magna Cum Laude, University of Puerto Rico's School of Public Communication
- Major: Public Communication
J.D., Cum Laude, University of Puerto Rico Law School
Memberships
Puerto Rico Bar Association
Federal Bar Association