Corporate Practice

The firm offers a full spectrum of corporate legal services designed to support clients throughout the life cycle of their business—from establishment and capitalization to regulatory compliance and corporate restructuring. We assist both local and foreign investors in forming a range of business entities, from simple incorporation to complex joint ventures, holding companies, and investment vehicles.

Our corporate services include:

• Business Formation and Structuring: Assistance in setting up corporations, partnerships, and other legal entities, including guidance on optimal structures for ownership, governance, and investment.
• Digital Business Formation Services: End-to-end assistance with the formation of digital businesses, start-ups, and technology-based enterprises—including registration with relevant regulatory bodies, intellectual property protection, platform terms and privacy policies, and compliance with e-commerce and fintech regulations.
• Foreign Investment Advisory: Compliance with the Foreign Investments Act, Anti-Dummy Law, and applicable restrictions under the Foreign Investment Negative List (FINL), including securing appropriate licenses from the Board of Investments (BOI) and the Philippine Economic Zone Authority (PEZA).
• Corporate Secretarial Services: Maintenance of corporate records, drafting of board and shareholders’ resolutions, assistance with annual filings, and compliance with Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) reportorial requirements.
• Regulatory Compliance and SEC Practice: Handling of SEC registrations, amendments to Articles and By-Laws, equity restructuring, as well as due diligence and advisory for mergers, acquisitions, project finance and other corporate transactions.
• Business Incentives and Tax Perks: Assistance in securing fiscal and non-fiscal incentives under investment promotion agencies, including BOI, PEZA, CDC, and TIEZA.

In addition to our corporate advisory work, the firm handles dispute resolution and litigation in relation to corporate governance issues, including:

• Intra-corporate disputes involving derivative suits, election contests, and shareholder rights
• Contentious corporate dissolutions and rehabilitation proceedings
• Disputes arising from corporate takeovers, mergers, and hostile acquisitions
• Arbitration and mediation of shareholder disagreements and boardroom conflicts

Our approach is both strategic and solutions-oriented—aligning legal structures and actions with our clients’ commercial goals while ensuring compliance with Philippine corporate law and emerging digital regulatory frameworks.