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Andrea E. Katipunan

Partner

Instituto de Empresa, Masters in Business Administration (Class of 2019)
Ateneo de Manila University School of Law, Juris Doctor (second honors) (Class of 2012)
Ateneo de Manila University, Bachelor of Science in Humanities (cum laude) (Class of 2007)
Admitted to the Philippine Bar in 2013

T +632 8894-0377 to 79
E andrea.katipunan@cagatlaw.com

Andrea E. Katipunan became a partner of C&G Law in October 2020.  She is a key member of the firm’s General Corporate, Energy, Construction & Infrastructure, Fintech and TMT practices.

Andrea’s practice areas include competition and antitrust, construction, corporate services, energy, fintech, foreign investments, infrastructure, and mergers & acquisitions. 

Andrea also has experience working abroad.  In 2017, Andrea was seconded to the Competition and Trade department of Rajah & Tann Singapore LLP. In 2019, as part of a team of post-graduate students from the Master of Business Administration program of Instituto de Empresa, Andrea worked in South Africa for a socially oriented enterprise.

She was named as an Up and Coming Lawyer by Chambers Asia-Pacific (2023).

Experience

Construction, Energy and Infrastructure

  • Advising a leading Philippine energy group on various aspects of a major LNG infrastructure development project with onshore and offshore components
  • Advising and assisting a potential investor with its proposed acquisition of a stake in the company that will develop the offshore wind power project, including conducting legal due diligence for the purposes of the proposed acquisition and advising on the laws, regulations, and permit and license requirements which apply to the development, construction, operation and maintenance of offshore wind power projects.
  • Conducting legal due diligence for the purposes of the proposed acquisition of controlling stake in the company that will develop the generation project and preparing legal documentation therefor. The legal due diligence included regulatory legal due diligence to confirm what laws, regulations, and permit and license requirements apply to the development, construction, operation and maintenance of the generation project and whether or not the generation project has complied with all of the said laws and regulations and secured all of the said permits and licenses that are applicable at this time.
  • Advising the client who was proposing to invest in the solar power project that was being developed, including conducting legal due diligence for the purposes of the proposed investment, including regulatory legal due diligence to confirm what laws, regulations, and permit and license requirements apply to the development, construction, operation and maintenance of solar power projects and whether or not the target solar power project had complied with all of the said laws and regulations and secured all of the said permits and licenses that were applicable to it at that time.
  • Advising and assisting a client, a distribution utility, in entering into an investment management agreement with and for an electric cooperative, including conducting legal due diligence for the purposes of the proposed investment, including regulatory due diligence to confirm what laws, regulations, and permit and licensing requirements apply to the management of an electric cooperative.
  • Advising on the regulatory framework for energy storage systems, competitive selection, green energy auction, and the renewable energy market, in relation to a generation project.
  • Advising the Philippine Electric Market Corporation in relation to establishing an electricity derivatives market in the Philippines. Work entailed preparing a legal paper on establishing the market and presented our findings to stakeholders, including the Department of Energy, Energy Regulatory Commission, Securities and Exchange Commission, Philippine Competition Commission, and other energy sector participants.
  • Assisting a client who is a member of the WESM in connection with the application of the Philippine Electric Market Corporation to amend the Price Determination Methodology (PDM).
  • Advising and assisting a generation company in bidding for a power supply agreement by the largest distribution utility in the country.
  • Assisting various generation companies in their application for approval of their power supply agreements with distribution utilities supplying the captive market.
  • Corporate secretarial work for a hydroelectric generation company and providing various regulatory advice to such company.
  • Advising the Philippine government and private bidders on, and drafting bidding documents and concession agreements for, the bidding and procurement of public-private partnership projects, including the computerization of the civil registry operations of the Philippine Statistics Authority; the construction and operation of the Cavite-Laguna Expressway; and the construction of the Laguna Lakeshore Expressway Dike.
  • Managing teams in the preparation and drafting of engineering, procurement and construction contracts for power plants, manufacturing plants and other buildings, and the provision of related legal advice.

General Corporate Practice

  • Advising and assisting with proposed acquisitions of various businesses including advertising, telecommunications, logistics, financing, and retail companies. Assistance has included the conduct of due diligence and the preparation of contracts and agreements for the acquisition. Advice has covered various legal issues related to the acquisition.
  • Advised and assisted with a five-way merger.
  • Preparing mandatory merger notifications to the Philippine Competition Commission and advising clients on competition law concerns.
  • Managing a team in the conduct of a competition law compliance audit of a multinational company and preparing merger filings of foreign and local acquisitions with the Philippine Competition Commission.

TMT & FinTech

  • Advising various entities in the fintech space such as payment systems, acquirers, and online retailers on regulations relating to operators of payment system, virtual asset service provider, e-money issuers, money service business, currency conversion and the like.
Publications
  • Contributor, Corporate Tax 2016: Philippines, Law and Practice, published by Chambers and Partners (2016)
  • Contributor, Country Guide – Philippines, published by Asialaw (2016)