Our exposure to complex commercial litigation involves intra-corporate disputes, derivative suits, proxy fights and corporate takeovers, suspension of payments, insolvency and rehabilitation proceedings, and appointment of receivers or creation of management committees, banking and banking fraud, violations of loan, trust or escrow agreements, matters pertaining to public utilities, and applications for certificates of public convenience.

The subject matter of our civil cases range from actions based on contracts, such as collection suits, specific performance, rescission of contract with claims for consequential and other damages, to all types of land disputes, ejectment cases, mortgages and leases, foreclosure of mortgages, conveyance of properties, breach of contracts of carriage (i.e., collisions and other maritime accidents, actions involving claims for death or injury of passengers and loss or damage to cargo and property), violations of service contracts, and actions involving claims on life and non-life insurance. We handle injunction cases, estate, probate and adoption proceedings, actions to enforce foreign judgments in the Philippines, claims for damages arising from quasi-delict and tort, and actions for annulment of marriage and reconstitution of titles.

We also handle cases involving the validity and constitutionality of laws, executive orders, government issuances, and acts of public officers and other government agencies. In handling these cases, we provide our clients litigation strategies derived from a deep understanding of the law and jurisprudence, and grounded on thorough preparation, sensitivity to the client’s goals and awareness of the practical concerns that affect most litigation. It is the Firm’s primary objective to protect the client’s rights and interests, and avoid unnecessary suits in the administration of justice.

We routinely handle filings with, and proceedings at, the Intellectual Property Office and the Food and Drugs Administration in respect to brand name clearance, product registration and regulatory compliance for food, drug, cosmetic, devices and hazardous substance regulation, and consumer protection.

Our IP lawyers are likewise specialist in IPR litigation, including inter partes and other administrative proceedings before the Intellectual Property Office, Department of Trade and Industry as well as cases with other administrative agencies and regular courts designated to try unfair competition, patent, trademark or copyright infringement, anti-counterfeiting and other IPR cases. They are active in international and local intellectual property organizations such as the Intellectual Property Association of the Philippines, and the Licensing Executives Society. These memberships allow our IP lawyers to be at the forefront of important developments in IP law as well as coordinate international protection for our clients’ intellectual property.