PRACTICE AREAS

Administrative Litigation

application for and opposition to applications before administrative agencies, departments, local government units and other branches of the goverment, prosecution of and defense against administrative complaints, and charges before administrative tribunals.

Alternative Dispute Resolution

mediation, conciliation, judicial dispute resolution, and other negotiations for amicable settlements, compromise and resolution of claims.

Appellate Practice

appeals before the Regional Trial Court, the Court of Tax Appeals, the Court of Appeals, and the Supreme Court.

Banking

advisory, review and assessment of bank practices and documentation, legal due diligence relative to bank loans and securities, formulation of bank strategies for the collection and enforcement of credits, civil actions relating to violations of bank loan agreements, actions for sum of money, prosecution of and defense against injunctive writs and remedies, foreclosure of bank mortgages, prosecution for violation of trust receipts law and bouncing checks, applications for writs of possession, bank fraud, administrative actions before the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas, and other administrative cases involving financial institutions.

Civil Cases

actions for specific performance, rescission, and annulment of contracts, restitution, damages, quasidelicts and torts, sum of money, injunction, ejectment, declaratory relief.

Product Liability

claims for damages for defective products or goods and consumer complaints before the Department of Trade and Industry.

Intellectual Property Litigation

actions for infringement patents, trademarks, and copyrights, damages and search and seizure operations.

Corporate Litigation

handling of legal matters before the securities and exchange commission and regular courts relative to corporate disputes including but not limited to corporate compliance issues, intra-corporate controversies, election and proxy concerns, enforcement of stockholder rights, derivative suits, transfers of shares, corporate rehabilitation, and insolvency proceedings.

Property Disputes

cancellation of titles, recovery of possession, encroachment of property, abatement of nuisance, ejectment

Criminal Litigation

prosecution of criminal complaints as private prosecutors or defense against criminal complaints. Family Law – adoption, annulment, declaration of nullity, custody, legal separation, separation of property, succession, application for protective orders.

Insurance

review of insurance contracts, procedures and practices, legal assessments of insurance coverage, exclusions and claims, enforcement of and opposition to insurance claims and handling of other various matters and complaints before the Insurance Commission.

Intellectual Property Administration 

advisory, application and registration of trademarks, trade names and service marks, maintenance of marks, registration of utility models and industrial designs, deposit of copyright, registration of trademark use agreements, assignment of marks.

Trademark Enforcement 

advisory for, developing and managing trademark protection programs, prosecution of trademark infringement, opposition to registration of marks, cancellation of trademarks, actions for unfair competition, search and seizure of infringing good

Patent Enforcement 

advisory, application and registration for patents, actions for injunction against infringing goods, actions for damages for patent infringement, and criminal prosecution for patent infringement.