Manuel Martinez-Herrera is an International Labor & Employment Law Associate at White & Case LLP, New York. Mr. Martinez-Herrera’s practice focuses on counseling multinational employers on cross-border human resources and data privacy issues affecting multiple countries and jurisdictions, including:

• International coordination of all employment aspects (e.g., review and negotiation of purchase agreements, transfer of employees from seller to buyer, post-merger integrations) of multinational M&A transactions
• International data privacy compliance including safe harbor certification, standard contractual clauses, multinational whistleblowing hotlines and notifications and registrations with multiple data protection authorities
• Individual and collective international redundancies
• Review and preparation of global handbooks, codes of conduct and HR policies for multinational companies
• Independent contractors vs. employees
• Assistance on "expatriate" and "secondment" arrangements
• Counseling on trade unions and work councils matters on a global basis

Mr. Martinez-Herrera has previous Employment Law experience both in the European Union and in the US. Prior to joining White & Case, Mr. Martinez-Herrera was an associate at one of the major US labor and employment law firms. Before that, Mr. Martinez-Herrera practiced EU and Spanish Employment Law in Barcelona as an associate of the international employment law group of one of the leading Spanish law firms, and corporate law in Buenos Aires at one of the major Argentinean law firms.

Bars and Courts
New York State Bar, 2007
Colegio de Abogados de Madrid (Madrid Bar), 2003

Education
LLM, Harvard Law School, Real Colegio Complutense Scholar, 2006
Licenciado en Derecho (J.D. equivalent), Universidad Pontificia de Comillas, 2003

Publications
The 2010 Top 10 EU Data Privacy Changes, EuroWatch, Vol. 23, No. 2, 2011
The Transfer of Undertakings in Asia: An EU or a US Approach? (with Eric Kosinski y Jiong Deng), IBA Employment & Ind. Rel. Law, Vol. 20, No. 1, 2010
Freedom of Hiring: An Absolute Right?, in Perspectives, 04/09, 2009
Punitive Damages in the Employment Discrimination Context: "A General Overview and Analysis of Whether they Effectively Deter from Discriminating in the Workplace," reprinted in Punitive Damages New Dimensions, M. N. Bhavani, ed., The Icfai University Press, pp. 143-153, 2008

Languages
English
Spanish
French

Citizenship
Spain
United States