Philippines Corporate and Commercial Law

Carpo Law offers a specialized range of legal services and consulting to meet the diverse needs of our clients from small start-up businesses to large multinational corporations. We offer comprehensive legal advice to corporate clients on all aspects of their business, ranging from choosing the best vehicle to start a business, corporate formation, registration, litigation, product registration, employment & labor, tax incentives and structures. Our practice includes:

Business Registration, Incorporation and Formation for foreign companies
Setting up a business in the country, whether through a branch or wholly-owned subsidiary, taking into account the tax planning and inter-corporate tax issues, and when needed, we have links with foreign attorneys with whom we will liaise to provide cross-border tax planning and structuring:

Corporate Document Drafting

Pre-incorporation agreements
Shareholders ownership agreements
Stocks, Options and Benefit Plans
Articles of Incorporation and by-laws
Corporate structure and governance
Board Resolutions
Secretary's Certificate and Affidavits

Litigation (Corporate, Commercial & Tax)

Regional Trial Courts
Court of Tax Appeals
Court of Appeals
Supreme Court

Taxation & Tax Law

Tax Audit and Tax Compliance with governmental regulations
Tax structuring
Local and International Taxation
Tax incentives and registration with BOI and PEZA
Tax due dilegence

Labor Law

Employee Contracts & Manuals
Labor Law & Labor Code
Benefit Plans
Foreign working permit (ACR)
Investor Visa
Document processing and coordination Department of Labor (DOLE)

Immigration Law

Foreign employment Visa (9G)
Investor Visa
Retirement Visa
Document processing and coordination with Bureau of Immigration

Product Registration with BFAD

Product classification for Philippine market
Processing of documents
Secure license with LTO
Import and Export Product registration with BFAD

Offshore Company Registration and Advice

Hong Kong
Singapore
British Islands
Other territories

E-Commerce Law

Legal and corporate framework and safeguard for business models
Drafting electronic contracts and user agreements
Internet Jurisdiction
Digital Signatures
Copyright infringement
Online Publishing
Electronic retailing (e-tailing)
Online & email related defamation (libel & slander)
Software licenses and various other technology-related agreements
Online content licensing
Privacy and data control issues in a changing legal environment
Liability risks in dealing with third party information
E-Commercial intellectual property basics: copyright, DMCA
Property rights beyond intellectual property: the right to control and protect one’s own computer and online system
Laws validating electronic transactions
Online contract formation
Domain names and their control
Website and online jurisdiction issues
Terms of service: access contracts, online site or service agreements and application service providers
Linking
Liability for informational content
Consumer law issues in e-commerce
E-Mails and evidence in e-commercial contexts
Structuring the analysis of tax issues in the e-commerce context

Contact Our Lawyers and Consultants

21-B Rufino Pacific Tower,
6784 Ayala Avenue cor. Rufino St., Makati,
Metro-Manila

Philippines
Office: (+63)2-750-0631
Office: (+63)2-750-0634
Mobile: (+63)917-5935265
Mobile: (+63)917-9258893

Australia
Office:(613)9008-6208

United States
Office:(415)287-3308
Office:(415)223-2654

Email: info@carpolaw.com