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For 60 years, top Philippine and multinational companies have put their trust in Quisumbing Torres’ global expertise housing a seasoned legal team of more than 60 lawyers focused across different practice areas, industry sectors, and client solutions as a member firm of Baker & McKenzie International. Quisumbing Torres delivers holistic solutions to interconnected challenges. We work collaboratively with our clients, providing the appropriate perspective to inform decision-making while managing risk and gaining access to untapped business opportunities.
Our client base includes many leading local conglomerates, top multinational and domestic companies seeking to realize growth in the Philippines and beyond. Consistently recognized as a leading firm, we have developed a track record advising on some of the most significant and award-winning transactions in the country. We have successfully assisted Shell in its joint venture with Emerging Power Inc. to develop, own, operate, and maintain onshore renewable energy projects in the Philippines, which was recognized as 2023 M&A Deal of the Year by the Asian Legal Business Philippine Law Awards. We successfully advised Eramen Minerals in the development of a downstream nickel processing facility for the production of nickel components for batteries for use in electric vehicles, as well as advising SpaceX in the accreditation of its Starlink Philippine entity. Our partners play an active role in shaping policy. They have been involved in hearings and deliberations within the Philippine Congress and Executive Departments on critical issues related to energy transition, digital transformation and sustainability.
We continue to provide valuable local insight and foresight on corporate and commercial transactions to leading domestic companies and foreign multinationals on various matters in relation to doing business in the Philippines.
As international interest continues to set its sights in the Philippines, Quisumbing Torres’ global capability and network with deep local market knowledge make us the clear first choice for clients in the country and beyond.
Offices
Manila
Quisumbing Torres,16th Floor, One/NEO Building
26th Street Corner 3rd Avenue
Crescent Park West
Bonifacio Global City
Taguig City 1634
Philippines
Since our establishment in 1963, we have advised domestic and international companies in various industries of consumer goods and retail, energy, mining and infrastructure, financial institutions, healthcare and life sciences, industrials, manufacturing and transportation, and technology, media and telecommunications. Today, we enjoy a reputation as a market leader, and as a firm able to provide clients with critical local insight and valuable international experience.
As a member firm of Baker & McKenzie International, Quisumbing Torres' Corporate & Commercial/M&A practice combines deep local market knowledge and experience together with a regional and global perspective when advising clients in their transactions and projects and in doing business in the Philippines.
Our Corporate & Commercial/M&A Practice Group assists clients in various projects and transactions, including all phases of public or private mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and shareholder arrangements, foreign investment and structuring, establishment of operations, divestments, corporate restructuring and reorganization, corporate governance, and regulatory compliance requirements.
- Tier 1, Corporate and M&A, The Legal 500 Asia Pacific, 2015-2024
- Tier 1, Asian Legal Business M&A Rankings, 2013-2023
Our Dispute Resolution Practice Group provides strategic and practical counsel and legal assistance in all forms of dispute resolution — from negotiation and mediation to arbitration and general/specialized litigation.
- Tier 1, Dispute Resolution, The Legal 500 Asia Pacific, 2018-2024
- Tier 1, Labor and Employment, Benchmark Litigation, 2019-2024
Our Immigration Practice Group provides efficient global and regional mobility solutions that fit commercial objectives. With our vast experience and expertise in immigration law, we are able to provide strategic immigration advice to clients in complex and novel immigration issues. As immigration laws and rules in the Philippines are not all codified, providing advice on complex and novel issues is difficult and requires vast immigration experience and expertise.
- Tier 1, Immigration, The Legal 500 Asia Pacific, 2006-2024
- Immigration Law Firm of the Year, Asian Legal Business Philippine Law Awards, 2017, 2019-2020
Our Employment & Compensation Practice Group provides seamless advice from strategy to disputes and operations. We will work with you to understand your ultimate strategic goals, manage your primary asset — your employees — and guide you through the modern-day challenges global businesses face.
- Band 1, Employment, Chambers Asia Pacific, 2014-2024
- Tier 1, Labour and Employment, The Legal 500 Asia Pacific, 2006-2024
Our Tax Practice Group provides integrated advice on all aspects of local and international tax law to help clients minimize risks and maximize tax incentives. We assist clients who are entering the Philippine market in designing and implementing tax structures that are practical and tailored to local operations. Adept in addressing regulatory issues, we help clients protect their businesses from unforeseen exposure.
- Philippines: Tax Disputes Firm of the Year, ITR Asia Tax Awards, 2023
- Tier 1, Tax, The Legal 500 Asia Pacific, 2017-2024
With groundbreaking tools and systems specially designed for IP portfolio management, our Intellectual Property Data & Technology Practice Group can help ensure effective registration and protection of your trademarks, copyrights and patents. Calling on extensive experience in IP rights enforcement, we can help you obtain successful results — and make cost-efficient decisions — in even the most complex IP disputes.
- Band 1, Intellectual Property, Chambers Asia Pacific, 2008-2024
- Tier 1, Intellectual Property, The Legal 500 Asia Pacific, 2006-2024
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Jurisdiction Firm of the Year: Philippines
IFLR Asia-Pacific Awards, 2024
Philippine Law Firm of the Year
ALB Philippine Law Awards, 2023
Philippine Law Firm of the Year
Euromoney Asia Women in Business Law Award, 2015-2020, 2022-2023
Best Overall Law Firm
Asia Business Law Journal’s Philippine Law Firm Awards, 2022/2023
Most Responsive International Law Firm – Philippines
In-House Community Firms of the Year 2023
Employer of Choice
Asian Legal Business, 2013-2016, 2018-2020, 2022, 2024
Philippine Law Firm of the Year
The Legal 500 Southeast Asia Awards 2020/2021