Our Team

Collective experience.
Practical perspective.

Our team brings together decades of corporate and commercial legal practice, extensive litigation experience, and senior corporate management experience. This combination helps us assess each matter from both a legal and a practical perspective, with attention to the client’s objectives, resources, and operating realities.

Corporate insight and transactional experience

The team’s background includes two decades in corporate operations and management, more than thirty years of corporate and commercial legal practice, and long-serving general counsel and corporate advisory roles. Our experience spans corporate structuring and governance, mergers and acquisitions, foreign investments, banking and finance, commercial real estate, contracts, taxation, immigration, and intellectual property.

Litigation and dispute resolution

Our lawyers have represented clients in civil, criminal, labor, administrative, and regulatory proceedings before courts, government agencies, quasi-judicial bodies, and arbitral tribunals. Their experience includes construction arbitration, energy regulation, intellectual property disputes, employment litigation, and commercial disputes. We combine careful preparation and advocacy with negotiation and other avenues for practical resolution.

Business, regulatory, and professional backgrounds

Our collective experience includes advising enterprises in business process outsourcing, real estate, manufacturing, retail and distribution, technology, education, pharmaceuticals, and entertainment. The team also brings experience as retained counsel and corporate secretary, including work on compliance, human resource matters, and government procurement. Its professional background includes legal education at the Ateneo de Manila University and Philippine Law School, business education, real estate brokerage, immigration and labor agency accreditation, and leadership in legal organizations.