The firm acts  as a local correspondent for international shipowners and their P&I clubs on matters relating to litigation of seafarer’s money claims for disability and death benefits and protecting their interest on other labor-related cases such as claims for termination dispute and underpayment of wages, among others, before the POEA or NLRC, Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court. 
 
The firm also gives corporate assistance and legal advice on laws and regulations pertaining to overseas employment to local agents.
 
Our partners, Paolo Primavera and Allan Kato are members of the Maritime Law Association of the Philippines (MARLAW).

The firm is adept at conducting legal audits in order to identify risks and issues concerning a business entity, with the aim of ensuring that it is up to date and compliant with relevant laws and regulations. We have conducted audits for clients from varied industries such as energy, mining, health care, construction, etc.

A unique service offered by the firm is a labor compliance audit. Labor laws are multi-faceted and complex, and as such, compliance with certain regulation are often, although not intentionally, missed out on. As a matter of practice, we encourage our clients to initiate their own audit on an annual basis.

The firm has successfully represented parties to a construction contract before the Construction Industry Arbitration Commission (CIAC), providing them with an effective way of defending, or prosecuting, their claims. The CIAC is tasked to provide the industry with the necessary alternative dispute resolution facilities for the speedy and equitable settlement of claims and disputes arising from, or connected with, construction contracts in the Philippines. The CIAC offers mediation and arbitration as ways of reconciling differences between disputants with the help of people who are familiar/knowledgeable with the nuances of the construction industry.

The firm provides various corporate services in relation to doing business ranging from the establishment of simple to complex business ventures and/or structures, foreign investments, corporate secretarial services, SEC practice, as well as the securing of business incentives for both local and foreign investors and businesses.

The firm can likewise assist in litigation cases such as those arising from intra-corporate disputes and corporate takeovers.

Data Privacy and Protection Law involves the security and protection of a person’s fundamental right to privacy and communication collected, processed, and or stored by individuals or entities. 
Albeit a relatively new branch of legal practice, the firm’s lawyers are adept in the practice of Data Privacy and Protection. 

The firm gives competent, reliable legal advice on Data Privacy compliance, conducts Data Privacy seminars, and drafts Data Privacy Policies/Manuals and other related contracts. 

The firm’s lawyers are well-versed in representing both the capitalists and the workers in addressing their employment-related concerns, making sure that their labor rights are fully protected and/or enforced.
  
The firm’s services include, but is not limited to, providing legal advice and helping clients comply with Philippine Labor Laws, assisting employees in filing labor complaints to enforce their rights, and defending employers from unjustified actions filed and/or performed by its employees.

The firm’s lawyers are both legally and technically competent in assisting its clients in complying with environmental regulations. Aside from environmental compliance, the firm likewise handles mediation and litigation involving environmental matters before the courts and administrative agencies.

Family Law deals with all matters involving family relations. It includes marriage, property relations between husband and wife, paternity and filiation, adoption, support, and parental authority.  
 
The firm provides legal advice to our clients on how to address their family legal issues. If such issues cannot be addressed amicably, our team of lawyers are fully capable of effectively protecting and defending their legal rights. 

Our services include, but is not limited to, obtaining declarations of nullity of void marriage and annulment of voidable marriages, decrees of legal separation, adoption decrees, orders of support, and all other reliefs intertwined in these matters.

The firm has rendered advice and assistance to a wide range of clients in dealing and transacting with the local and national government offices and agencies through public bidding and joint venture arrangements to ensure optimum benefits not only for the proponent but to the procuring entity as well.

The firm has successfully represented parties before the Housing and Land Use Regulatory Board (HLURB), extending quality service in ensuring they are properly guided, advised, and represented throughout the proceedings. 

Our services in relation to adjudication before the HLURB include not only the preparation of the required pleadings, but also, the representation in negotiations and discussions during mediations in hopes of arriving at fair, acceptable, and amicable agreements.
 

The firm provides legal services to foreign nationals in need of legal representation, assisting them in processing their required visas and aiding in immigration litigation when necessary. Being well-versed in immigration law, the firm’s lawyers can offer advisory and document review work on immigration law and compliance therewith. 

For foreign nationals seeking gainful employment in the Philippines, the firm can likewise assist in processing the required Alien Employment Permit (AEP) with the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE), providing guidance throughout the application process and ensuring that all requirements are duly fulfilled.

Brands often invested significant resources in developing intellectual properties. Hence, these properties should be afforded the same rights and protection afforded to traditional assets.

As we move to the digital age, intellectual properties become more susceptible to infringement from anonymous actors. Infringers can set up fake websites purporting to be a brands official site by using its logo, ad campaigns and product shots. These sites compete not only for customers, but also for a brand’s site and ad traffic causing significant losses not only in the brand’s cost but also its reputation.

Our firm offers both traditional solutions, such as trademark and copyright registration and enforcement, as well modern solutions, like online trademark protection, search and monitoring of intellectual property, domain acquisition and recovery, and domain name portfolio management, to remedy this emerging threat to the brands of tomorrow.

The firm continuously supports start-up tech companies that require guidance in the establishment of the required corporate entity and related compliance requirements. Further, the firm endeavors to bring opportunities to these companies by tapping the firm’s immediate and extended network. 

Our lawyers’ technical backgrounds in IT have proven to be valuable for clients during negotiations and contract drafting.

The success that the firm continues to enjoy in the litigation arena can be attributed to the learned manner that it consistently applies in the handling of all of its cases, as well as the finely-honed courtroom skills of its trial lawyers. 
 
Every litigated case referred to us is unique and deserves special attention; hence, to each case, the firm assigns a competent team of experienced litigators, carefully selected from its pool of lawyers, all of whom possess substantial experience in various fields of endeavor.
 
Employing this time-tested approach, the firm has seen action across the entire gamut of litigation: from civil cases to criminal cases, special proceedings, corporate and labor cases, proceedings sui generis, special civil actions to administrative cases and investigations, and all other proceedings in between.

In a country where majority of Filipino adults do not have bank accounts, there is a need for an alternative for Filipinos to have accessible channels to move, lend and borrow money. Non-Bank Financial Institutions (NBFI) have been part of the financial sector as a source of consumer credit. NBFIs include financing and lending companies, pawnshops, money service business operations 

The firm provides advice and assistance in the setting-up, maintenance and governance of NBFIs. Our services include registration of corporation and securing authority to operate licenses, corporate housekeeping, giving expert advice on banking and financial transactions and assisting clients with compliance with regulatory requirements of BSP, SEC and other relevant government agencies.

Licensed professionals invest significant time, money, and effort in acquiring and maintaining the privilege to practice in their chosen fields. Sometimes, however, a professional’s reputation and livelihood are unnecessarily put at risk due to frivolous suits lodged against them before the Professional Regulations Commission (the “PRC”).

On the other hand, laymen are not always guaranteed quality service and fall victim to a licensed professional’s abuse of his/her privilege to practice their profession. The victims in this scenario, more often than not, get lost in the technicalities involved in lodging a complaint against a licensed professional.

The firm’s significant experience in the PRC practice has enabled us to provide quality legal advice and representation to licensed professionals, who seek to protect their established vocation, and to laymen, who seek vindication against the abuses committed against them.

The continuing momentum in the real estate market has led prices of real property to drastically soar over the past few years. Because of this, the need for a real estate attorney to protect the interest of either the buyer or the seller and to ensure the legality and fairness of the transfer has become increasingly important, if not essential.

The firm has performed due diligence audits on several real estate transactions, for both individual and corporate clients, to evaluate the legal situation of the real property involved, as well as to verify that the purchase or sale thereof is fully in accord with law, binding and in the client’s best interest. 

We have prepared and reviewed numerous documents related to real estate such as letters of intent, purchase agreements, deeds of mortgage, letters of guarantee and transfer documents. Our lawyers are equally competent in real estate laws covering titles, deeds, real estate mortgages, property taxes and zoning.

The firm’s lawyers are equipped with knowledge in business laws, local and foreign investment laws, and other laws and regulations with respect to doing business and have advised numerous clients on joint ventures and similar partnerships, mergers and acquisitions, and corporate takeovers. 

Basically, the firm can assist in all sorts of complex special projects, particularly those that require out-of-the-box legal solutions for any industry—even mining and energy.

The firm throughout the years has rendered service in various areas of tax practice, from rendering tax advisory services and opinions, and tax advocacy services comprising of handling BIR assessments, compliance, and securing BIR rulings.

Our firm handles several of the country’s biggest transportation providers. As such, the skills of our lawyers are par none. They have been honed their craft through years of handling our clients concerns which includes but is not limited to matters relating to their respective franchises, compliance requirements, and litigation.

In fact, one of the partners, Dennis Añover, was formerly involved in the transportation business as an owner. His experience as well as our law firm’s consistent commitment to provide our clients the best service assures that all of your concerns would be handled by a seasoned team of lawyers.

The firm has advised and assisted testators, executors, administrators and beneficiaries through the entire probate process, from estate planning and preparation of the will, to the administration of the estate, payment of estate taxes, and court and out-of-court dispute settlement.

Our lawyers are well-versed in providing solutions and strategy to expedite the settlement of estates, such as resort to extrajudicial settlement of estate.