Services

Commercial and Corporate

Business enterprises rely on effective and timely legal advice, which Abad and Nuñez Law provides through its complete range of legal and ancillary services, encompassing taxation and customs, banking and finance, securities and capital markets, insurance, intellectual property, immigration, labor and employment and environment.

Abad and Nuñez Law approaches each client’s requirement to cover the full cycle of its corporate existence: from proposing the organizational system best suited for its requirements, organizing the same and providing guidance in its transactions and operations, always ensuring that the client’s legal and business integrity is maintained.

Abad and Nuñez Law is active in domestic and cross-border corporate transactions: mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, equity investments and change of control transactions. It also counsels businesses in their ongoing contractual relationships with domestic and international customers, partners, suppliers and distributors.

Abad and Nuñez Law also handles legal issues in the financing of high-value assets, by negotiating contractual provisions relating to tax liabilities (warranties, indemnities, allocation of tax losses and other relief, withholding tax and VAT clauses), handling tax-related disputes for individuals and legal entities and reviewing employee benefits, share option and incentive schemes.

Intellectual Property

Intellectual property (IP) is an essential corporate asset and tool, providing a business with the competitive edge it needs to succeed in the global market. Abad and Nuñez Law helps to maximize the commercial value of its clients’ IP assets and to ward off unwelcome IP claims from third parties, by helping clients to acquire, manage, license, develop, defend and assert its IP rights.

Abad and Nuñez Law provides the legal support to clients to secure Philippine and international IP protection, assisting clients with legal issues related to information technology, media, advertising and marketing.

Abad and Nuñez Law IP practice includes:

• IP transactional work (trademarks, patents, design rights, advertising and marketing properties, copyright and unfair competition)
• IP litigation (patent, trademark, copyright and confidential information litigation)
• Pharmaceuticals, biotechnology and healthcare (registration, licensing and transactional work)
• Transactions related to information technology (IT) and litigation (software development deals, licensing arrangements, systems procurement and IT and business process outsourcing)
• Internet-related advice (e-commerce, m-commerce and new media issues, website development, encryption, e-banking and licensing issues and international cyber-piracy and domain name disputes)
• IP portfolio management (IP strategies, structure and management of portfolios within specific company tax structures, protection and enforcement)
• Telecoms transactional work (such as roaming agreements, interconnection agreements and network outsourcing agreements)
• Data protection (advice on ‘stand-alone’ projects and corporate transactions)

Tax

Abad and Nuñez Law has varied tax work, many with international implications and opportunities for complex cross-border tax planning with leading local and multinational corporations, encompassing the design and implementation of tax-efficient structures for corporate, financial or commercial transactions.

Immigration, Labor and Employment

Abad and Nuñez Law immigration encompasses Philippine, American and Canadian immigration law. It maintains an international advisory network with the the San Francisco-based Lazaro Law Office (www.lazarolaw.com) and the Alberta-based StartCanada, which represent small and mid-sized companies, Fortune 500 companies, as well as individuals subject to American and Canadian immigration law.

Abad and Nuñez Law assists clients with business immigration, including obtaining labor certifications, temporary employment permits and 9-G working visas. Abad and Nuñez Law also helps with citizenship applications, deportation issues, investor visas, resident retiree visas and family immigration.

Environment

Abad and Nuñez Law helps firms play a more active role in the carbon market created by the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) under the Kyoto Protocol, including companies looking to fund projects to cut Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions or companies looking to sell the carbon credits from projects certified to reduce GHG emissions.

In addition to assistance for CDM projects in the more traditional commercial law practice areas, such as banking, capital markets and project financing, Abad and Nuñez Law and the TA Advisory Services Network can assist proponents throughout the CDM project cycle, including conceptualization and project design, CDM documentation and registration, carbon contracting, post-registration services for data quality audits and performance reviews and issuance of Certified Emission Reductions (CERs).