Corporate Commercial

We advise on all issues and legal developments affecting our clients’ businesses and operations — from the incorporation until the closure or dissolution of a company — assisting on matters of governance and compliance, conducting legal audits, and structuring, documenting and implementing a broad range of transactions. Our corporate and commercial work has involved various types of industries and businesses. 

The firm advises on all aspects of business and commercial transactions, including on the choice of an appropriate vehicle for investments (whether a corporation, partnership, joint venture or, for foreign corporations, branch or representative offices or regional headquarters); limitations on foreign equity or investment participation in certain ventures; the availability of fiscal or other incentives for particular activities; and the licensing and other regulatory requirements applicable to the carrying out of the business. It assists in the formation and organisation of the enterprise (and deals with the Securities and Exchange Commission for this purpose), and in obtaining all approvals and other permits that it requires to commence operations. The firm assists foreign clients in the registration of their investments with the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (the Philippine central bank).

The firm also sees to its clients’ continuing compliance with governance and other applicable regulatory, filing, and other submission requirements with relevant government offices. As well, it advises and assists its clients in matters and transactions affecting their regular operational requirements, including with respect to employment, taxation, property, the maintenance of their premises, their procurement of goods and services, and, generally, the prosecution of their business objectives.