Practice Area

The Firm has a strong Commercial Arbitration and Alternative Dispute Resolution Team (ADR Team) with its Dispute Resolution (DR) Head and Senior Partner being a Court of Appeals mediator, and its ADR Team Head being an accredited arbitrator of the Department of Justice’s Office of Alternative Dispute Resolution (DOJ-OADR), a trustee and accredited arbitrator of the Philippine Dispute Resolution Center, Inc. (PDRCI), the premium arbitration center in the Philippines, as well as PDRCI’s Deputy Secretary General and head of the Training and Education Committee.

Corporate and Debt Restructuring are also significant areas of expertise.

The Firm represents individuals and institutional clients in various real estate transactions, working across its other strong practice areas to provide advice on a wide range of matters, from simple property transfers, leasing and mortgaging, to more complicated transactions involving structuring of acquisitions and divestments, infrastructure development and financing, and taxation issues.