Our Practices
Our firm’s strength as a full-service law firm gives you the depth of knowledge and experience.
Corporate Law & Special Projects
The Firm provides full range of legal services concerning various business entities, whether small, medium, or big corporations, from their inception, to their day-to-day operations, all the way to liquidation. More particularly, the Firm is adept in handling business entity setups, capital structuring, intra-corporate controversies, licensing and registrations, mergers and acquisitions, investment agreements, and securities.
Taxation
As one of its primary specializations, the Firm offers turnkey services pertaining to tax related matters, such as tax study and opinion, tax assessment protests, representation for tax administrative appeals, and representation for tax judicial appeals, among others. The Firm takes pride in being able to represent one of the largest banks in Singapore in a tax case before the Bureau of Internal Revenue.
Contracts
The Firm provides expert legal services with real and practical consequences in everything that has to do with contracts and contractual relationships, in particular, contract negotiations, drafting, review, amendments, advisory, enforcement, and termination. The Firm’s experience in contract services spans from the simplest deeds to government contracts, up to the most complex terms and conditions.
Litigation
The Firm provides specialized and expert solutions and representation before all administrative tribunals and judicial courts across various proceedings such as administrative proceedings, intra-corporate controversies, mediation and arbitration, criminal proceedings, and civil proceedings, including appellate practice for the protection and enforcement of the clients’ rights and/or for the redress of a wrongdoing.
Data Privacy Law
The Firm specializes in providing all the relevant services pertaining to compliance with the Data Privacy Act of 2012, its IRR and the issuances of the National Privacy Commission, particularly establishment of a Data Privacy Program, Privacy Policy, Privacy Notice, Privacy Impact Assessment, Privacy Risk Assessment, Legitimate Interest Assessment, True Consent Assessment, Breach Management Protocol, Data Sharing Agreements, compliance with the registration requirements of the National Privacy Commission, and Data Privacy Officer Services.
Employment Law
The Firm provides full range of legal services to both employers and employees, including labor organizations pertaining to the enforcement labor laws of the Philippines particularly, drafting of employment contracts, representation in employee dispute resolution and arbitration, compliance with the issuances of the Department of Labor and Employment, protection of the rights of migrant workers, compliance with regulatory requirements of the Department of Migrant Workers, and services relating to labor unions and organizations.
Family Law
The Firm is adept in providing solutions and handling sensitive family law cases for our clients such as pre-nuptial agreements, dissolution of marriage, guardianship, adoption, custody, support, estate planning and wills, and criminal actions involving family members.
Property Law
The Firm delivers best-in-class solutions as they relate to management of and dealings with real estates and commercial assets, such as sale, lease, mortgage, and other modes of conveyance and encumbrance. The Firm also handles cases involving ownership disputes and possessory actions.
Intellectual Property Law
The Firm specializes in handling cases and transactions involving intellectual rights attached to products of the mind, such as patent registration, trademark registration, infringement actions, licensing and franchising agreements, and administrative and court actions relating to the enforcement and protection of intellectual property rights.
Election Law
The Firm provides turnkey services related to election proceedings from the filing of certificate of candidacy, compliance with reportorial and documentary requirements before and after the conduct of election, poll watching operations, and to election-related actions such as protests, quo warranto, and cancellation of certificates.
Constitutional and Political Law
The Firm’s founder has deep and advanced knowledge and understanding of the constitutional and political framework of the Philippines. Armed with such knowledge, the Firm is well positioned to deliver expert advisory and consultancy services in matters relating to constitutional and political issues, policy making, and legislative processes both in the national and local landscapes.
Information-Technology Law
As an emerging and evolving field of law, the Firm has made considerable efforts to be on top and be informed of the latest and greatest updates on regulations particularly in the fields of cybercrime, e-commerce, fintech, machine learning and artificial intelligence, cryptocurrency, and other various digital commercial platforms.
Main Services
Legal Services
The Firm provides a wide range of legal packages across different areas of laws to cater to the varying needs of our clients, specifically, general retainer agreements, legal research, advisory, and consultation, representation for administrative, criminal, civil, and special proceedings, and alternative dispute resolution.
Corporate Housekeeping
The Firm provides various services necessary to the maintenance of corporate entities, particularly, shareholder-nominee services, directorship services, resident agency, corporate secretarial services, data privacy officer services, and Anti-Money Laundering Officer services.
Regulatory Compliance Risk Assessment
The Firm offers services, with the use of industry standard compliance assessment methodologies, to determine our client’s potential legal exposures and sources of risk and offer solutions for audit readiness and to address and eliminate such identified risks.
Special Projects
Understanding the peculiarities that each and every problem may present, the Firm is flexible enough to come up with bespoke solutions and services, outside of those predetermined packages that would cater to the particular needs of our clients.