Our Practice

Banking and Finance is a core and steady area of expertise of the Firm. The Firm acts as retained counsel for many leading local and foreign banks and financial institutions in the country.

The Firm’s team of securities practitioners has handled a wide spectrum of securities-related issues ranging from initial public offerings (IPOs), follow-on and rights offers, tender offers, reverse takeovers of publicly listed firms.

The Projects & Energy practice of the Firm has grown in the last few years and have complemented its Banking and Finance practice.

M&A is a core practice area of MVGS. Of particular significance is the instrumental role of the Firm’s Partners in the consolidation of the banking and financial sector, as their..

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.

The Firm handles full range of dispute resolution and mediation, covering criminal, civil and administrative litigation and includes appellate practice and advocacy.

The Firm handles IP requirements of its domestic and international clients, including registration of trademarks, copyrights and patents, legal advisory on contractual concerns and prosecution and defense of intellectual property infringement actions.

The Firm’s Labor law practice includes advisory services on various labor issues, authoring Employment Manuals and serving as counsel in negotiations for Collective Bargaining Agreements (CBAs).

The key objectives of the Firm’s Taxation Practice Group are: (1) to provide business friendly, practical and cost-effective approaches to clients’ tax concerns

Merger review has since become a new normal in Philippine M&As with the enactment of the Philippine Competition Act, its implementing regulations and other issuances of the Philippine Competition Commission (PCC).

The Firm assists in the formation of corporate vehicles, including domestic corporations, local branches of foreign companies, representative offices and regional operating headquarters.

Corporate and Debt Restructuring are also significant areas of expertise.

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.