Clients with retainer agreements are offered general counseling and retainer services. Familiarization with the transactions and the needs of our retainer clients entails a more comprehensive understanding of the complexities of their day-to-day operations, transactions, and legal dealings.
Our broad experience gives us the ability to advise clients from diverse industries on the most appropriate corporate organization and practical solutions in all aspects of their business. We assist foreign clients desiring to invest in the Philippines, including registration with agencies that grant investment incentives.
We assist clients in their business development and operational needs, including securing approvals and permits from government agencies. Our lawyers serve as corporate secretary, corporate officers, and compliance officer of various companies to ensure our clients’ good governance and corporate housekeeping.
Our lawyers are exceptionally adept in structuring deals involving joint ventures, acquisitions, mergers, and corporate restructurings. We provide in-depth analyses of and comprehensive solutions to complex domestic and cross-border transactions to ensure that clients are fully advised of the potential risks and legal implications of their commercial dealings.
We assist clients in their Initial Public Offerings, rights and follow on offers, top-up placements, tender offers, private placements and registration and listing of securities. We likewise assist in periodic and structured reporting and prepare disclosure statements for publicly-listed companies and those with secondary licenses to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements.
Our tax team, composed of lawyers who are also Certified Public Accountants, provides full and wide-range consultancy and advice on innovative tax solutions, restructuring, transactional tax, and tax controversies. They are regularly kept abreast of new developments in tax laws and regulations to provide clients with timely, novel, and comprehensive tax solutions, taking into consideration the clients’ business objectives.
We have a wide range of experience and expertise in real estate transactions. We provide comprehensive legal service in property due diligence, property acquisition, consolidation, land use conversion, joint venture, and project development involving both horizontal and vertical structures.
Our practice includes registration, protection and litigation of all types of intellectual property rights and claims. We likewise handle preparation and registration of technology transfer arrangements such as license and franchise agreements, royalty agreements, advertising contracts and co-branding agreements.
We advise and assist our clients in their commercial dealings involving telecommunications, media, entertainment, business process outsourcing, and technology. We assist and represent our clients in their applications for franchises and licenses before legislative and administrative bodies.
We give expert advice on banking and financial transactions of varying degrees of complexities to assist clients in complying with the legal requirements to obtain financing for their various business needs. We also represent banks and financial institutions.
We provide extensive legal guidance and advice to clients on matters relating to power, utilities, energy and mining, including exploration, development, and utilization of energy and mining resources in the Philippines. We lead projects of energy developers in petroleum, coal, biomass, solar, geothermal, and hydro energy resources, among others.
Our litigation and dispute resolution practice group handles commercial, civil, criminal and tax litigation, arbitration, construction and property disputes, family law, corporate reorganization and rehabilitation, naturalization, enforcement of foreign judgments, special proceedings, among others, before regular courts, special tribunals and administrative and quasi-judicial bodies.
Our extensive understanding of the business needs and goals of our clients allows us to provide practical strategies and advice after a holistic assessment of the merits of any legal dispute. We work to achieve, as far as practicable, an amicable settlement of conflicts in order to avoid costly and protracted suits.
We provide legal service and consultancy in all domains of labor and employment: general human resource consultancy, labor standards, labor relations, and administrative investigations. We minimize the risk of litigation by assisting clients in the preparation and review of employee contracts, manuals, policies and disciplinary rules, assessing employment practices, and providing updates on significant developments in labor and related laws.
Our immigration services cover general counseling on immigration matters including processing and securing all types of visas from the Bureau of Immigration and alien employment permits from the Department of Labor and Employment.
Our data privacy team provides a wide array of data privacy compliance services, which include conducting privacy impact assessments (PIA) helping clients understand various data privacy vulnerabilities and how to address them, consultation on crafting organization-wide data privacy policies, data privacy systems registrations with the National Privacy Commission, as well as routine review of data privacy compliance in regular business contracts.
The team likewise handles data privacy education and training through the conduct of data privacy seminars for various business units of clients, ensuring that said units perform well while ensuring protection of the rights of data subjects.