Compliance and Corporate Law Services
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The vast experience of the Firm in corporate law and compliance gravitates upon its proficiency in designing, implementing, and monitoring practices, programs, procedures, and policies to several prominent organizations in the Philippines and worldwide.
The Firm’s ability to provide its clientele with expert solutions is, in turn, anchored upon its intimate understanding of the business of its clients as well as their short-term and long-term goals. It is upon such intricate familiarity with the best practices employed by the said prominent organizations together with its intimate understanding of the business of each of its clients that the Firm is able to not only identify and foresee potential challenges that its clients may face but likewise provide them with tailor-fitted solutions that would address the same without however sacrificing the vision of its clients.
The Firm recognizes that such solutions and expert advice are never permanent by nature. Rather, such guidance must be versatile enough to allow its client’s adequate room to adapt to the ever-changing corporate climate in the Philippines. To this end, with its sophisticated understanding of the regulatory requirements of the law, the Firm endeavors to partner with its clients to ensure that they are constantly afforded the optimum legal environment for their respective businesses to flourish.
The Firm’s services include:
- Assistance in drafting and preparing the Articles of Incorporation, Bylaws and such other legal documentation required in registering a corporation and/or partnership in the Philippines;
- Assistance in securing the primary registration of a company with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) and/or Department of Trade and Industries (“DTI”);
- Assistance in securing permits and/or licenses from both the local government unit involved as well as the appropriate government agencies (BIR. PAGIBIG, SSS, BSP, PAGCOR and the like);
- Identification and preparation of Corporate policies and programs that are either legally required or is simply beneficial to its clients;
- Guidance on the rules governing the transfer, assignment and conveyance of shares of stocks in both privately and publicly listed corporations;
- Assistance in amending and/or revising the Article of Incorporations, Bylaws and other corporate documentation;
- Provisions for corporate secretary and other board-related s
- Identification and assistance in securing opportunities afforded by the Board of Investments;
- Registration and relocation to special economic zones in the Philippines;
- Corporate governance and compliance with reportorial requirements of the appropriate government entities;
- Procurement of Alien Employment Permits (AEP), Visas and other licenses for foreign nationals willing to invest and expand their business in the Philippines;
- Mergers and acquisitions;
- Legal contracts, preparation, reviews and negotiations; and
- Banking and finance related endeavors.
