Practices
Areas of Practice

- Banking
- Construction & Engineering
- Corporate Rehabilitation
- Commercial Transactions & Instruments
- Energy, Oil & Gas
- Environment
- Family Law
- General Corporate Matters
- Immigration
- Intellectual Property
- Labor
- Legislative
- Litigation
- Mining
- Mortgages
- Project Finance
- Property & Project Development
- Tax
- Water

- Legal advice on general banking transactions
- Opinions on special purpose asset vehicles (SPAV)
- Consultation on quasi-banking transactions and activities and setting-up of quasi-banking business
- Foreclosures
- Writs of Possession

- Preparation and Negotiating contract conditions
- Analysis of contract liability
- Filed investigations

- Due diligence audit
- Opinions on existing laws and regulations on corporate rehabilitation
- Handling of corporate rehabilitation cases
- Corporate take-overs, mergers and consolidation

- Preparation of commercial instruments of credit
- Consultation on mortgages, loans, promissory notes, and other forms of negotiable instruments

- Consultation on the provisions of existing Philippine laws and proposed legislation and regulations on energy, oil and gas
- Preparation and review of power and gas purchase agreements
- Consultation on regulatory aspects of power projects
- Handling of cases before the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) and before the concerned government agencies and local government units

- Legal advice on the requirements of existing Philippine laws relating to environmental impact assessment, air, water and noise pollution, hazardous wastes, solid and toxic wastes and other environmental concerns
- Assistance in securing Environmental Compliance Certificate (ECC)

- Representation and prosecution cases for legal separation, annulment and declaration of nullity of marriages
- Dissolution of property regime
- Adoption and child custody cases

- Incorporation and amendment of corporate and constitutional documents, and corporate secretarial services
- Advise on corporate restructuring
- Conduct due diligence audits of target corporations
- Mergers and acquisitions

- Assistance in securing extension of waivers
- Assistance in obtaining approval of 9-G Visa, special investors resident visa applications and other appropriate visa applications and extensions before the Bureau of Immigration and Deportation (BID)
- Assistance in securing Alien Employment Permits (AEPs) before the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE)
- Handling of immigration cases

- Assistance in the search, application and registration of patents, trademarks and trade names
- Representation before the Intellectual Property Office (IPO) in cases involving applications and violations of intellectual property laws
- Enforcement of cases against violators of the laws on intellectual property

- Handling of labor cases before labor arbiters, the National Labor Relations Commission (NLRC) and appellate courts
- Advise on labor laws and regulations
- Consultation on collective bargaining agreements, strikes, labor disputes and other labor-related concerns

- Legal advocacy relative pending bills and draft regulations
- Assists in drafting of bills of and local ordinances

- Civil and criminal litigation
- Administrative, anti-graft and quasi-judicial proceedings
- Appellate practice

- Legal advice on the provisions of existing Philippines laws and proposed legislation and regulations on mining and natural resources
- Handling of mining disputes before the PMRB, PA and appellate jurisdictions

Foreclosures of Real Estate Mortgages

- Land acquisition and transfer matters
- Consultation on regulatory aspects of property and project development
- Assistance in the registration and annotation of mortgages, sale, deeds adverse claims, lis pendens and other transactions involving land
- Foreclosures of mortgages, reconveyance of property and ejectment
- Extra-judicial settlement of Estate

- Land acquisition and transfer matters
- Consultation on regulatory aspects property and project development
- Assistance in the registration and annotation of mortgages, sale, deeds, adverse claims, lis pendens, and other transactions involving land
- Foreclosures of mortgages, reconveyance of property and ejectment
- Extra-judicial settlement of estate

- Assistance in the application for tax treaty relief
- Prosecution of tax refund cases and representation before the Court of Tax Appeals
- Assistance in securing ruling and opinions from the Bureau of Internal Revenue

- Advise on the regulatory aspects of the grant and operation of water concessions
- Assistance in the application and renewal of water permits