会社法は、当社の主要な実務分野の一つです。 弊社のクライアントは、適切な種類の事業組織、企業構造、登録要件（証券取引委員会や協同組合開発局など）、特別ライセンス（フィリピン輸出区庁やフィリピン中央銀行など）に関するアドバイスを頼っています。新しく設立されたクライアントと既存のクライアントには、通常の企業サービスを提供し、報告およびライセンス要件への準拠を保証します。当社は、法律で認められている範囲内で顧客の株式代表を行い、ほぼすべての企業顧客に企業秘書機能を幅広く提供しています、役員が株主および取締役会の議事録を作成するのを支援し、株券の発行、株券・振替帳簿の管理。弊社は、合併や買収を通じて、クライアントの拡大に尽力してきました。 同様に、商取引契約の見直し、交渉、執行を含むさまざまな企業取引について定期的に助言を提供し、必要に応じて、より良い企業運営と管理のための構造的再編成を提案します。
Together with Corporate Law, the Firm has extensive experience in the handling of civil, criminal, administrative and arbitration cases with a broad spectrum of actions, either as prosecution or defense. The actions include contract enforcement, family relations, succession, estate settlement, contract enforcement, collection, intellectual property, construction disputes, deportation, land titles, financial and property related crimes, tax disputes, among others. The Firm has represented clients before various courts and quasi-judicial bodies and agencies, such as the Metropolitan Trial Courts (MTC), the Regional Trial Courts (RTC), the Court of Appeals (CA), the Supreme Court (SC), the Housing and Land Use Regulatory Board (HLURB), the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the Office of the President (OP), the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB), various prosecutorial services under the Department of Justice (DOJ) the Construction Industry Arbitration Commission (CIAC), the Philippine Dispute Resolution Center, Inc. (PDRCI). The Firm has also represented clients in domestic and international arbitration proceedings.
Understanding the balance between capital and labor, the Firm has provided equal counsel for both employers and employees on Philippine labor and employment laws, practices and policies. Having represented both companies and employees in employment matters especially in arbitration and litigation, the Firm has acquired a perspective which has proved invaluable in attaining very satisfactory results for either side in the negotiation and execution of collective bargaining agreements. The Firm has represented clients in proceedings before the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE), its main office and its various agencies regional offices such as the National Labor Relations Commission (NLRC) and the Philippine Overseas Employment Agency (POEA).
Realizing the value of attracting foreign capital and experience, the Firm has represented foreign nationals and companies before Philippine administrative bodies in immigration matters. The Firm specializes in securing visas and work permits for foreign nationals entering the Philippines, defending some against nuisance deportation actions, and when requested and authorized, to inquire into the immigration status of foreign nationals who travel to the Philippines.
As part of the Firm’s extensive corporate practice, it helps its clients with the registration of their Intellectual Property (patents, trademarks, and copyright), including the protection and renewal of the same. The Firm also handles intellectual property enforcement by coordinating with law enforcement in conducting surveillance, applying for search warrants, accompanying law enforcement in implementing the said warrants, and subsequent filing of the corresponding criminal and civil cases.
With experience in land acquisition for certain clients, the Firm conducts due diligence and audits genuineness of real property titles, computes tax and other liabilities, performs titling and subdivision activities, reviews and prepares real estate transaction documents such as donations, sales, leases and assignments. The Firm has represented or counseled both subdivision and condominium developers on the one hand and the homeowners’ or condominium associations, on the other. The Firm also engages in real estate brokerage, sometimes as the intermediary between the sellers and buyers of real property, at other times as the representative of the parties for the documentation of the transaction before the concerned government agencies.
The Firm advises both domestic and international individuals and corporations in all areas of Philippine taxation laws, and suggesting means of minimizing the impact of taxation. From such varied activities as asset acquisition to disposition, compensation and remuneration, and estate distribution, our Firm has assisted our the clients in obtaining remedies to temper the impact of taxation, from availing of exemptions provided by local laws and international treaties and maximizing benefits as may be applicable to them, to prudent estate and financial planning. The Firm has represented clients in obtaining favorable rulings, and in successfully reducing assessments.
In addition to the fields of practice enumerated above, the Firm also handles special projects using its extensive professional network in the executive, legislative and judicial branches of the Philippine government, as well as in the military, law enforcement, social and business communities, which it can bring to bear rapid results for clients.