December 20, 2011 4:31 PM
Littler Heads South of the Border With Acquisition of 24 Mexican Lawyers
Posted by Sara Randazzo
A year after opening an outpost in Venezuela, Littler Mendelson is again expanding in Latin America, this time by opening a pair of offices in Mexico.
The labor and employment specialty firm will gain 24 lawyers from full-service Mexican firm Basham, Ringe Correa on January 2. Led by Oscar De la Vega, the group will set up shop in Mexico City and Monterrey and be known locally as Littler, De la Vega y Conde.
Littler president and managing director Marko Mrkonich calls the new offices “the next logical step in developing an ability to answer employers questions and provide their needs on a global basis.” Increasingly, Mrkonich says, clients need multijurisdictional labor and employment advice covering everything from privacy policies and codes of ethics to workforce reductions and benefits planning.
But why Mexico? On a basic level, Mrkonich says the country represents fertile territory for Littler because “places with lots of people have employment law issues.”
More immediately, he says, this move—like Littler’s foray into Venezuela, its first expansion outside the
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