Gorriceta Africa Cauton & Saavedra

Corporate Group and Technology Media and Telecommunications.

Managing Partner; Head - Corporate Group, Head - Technology Media and Telecommunications Group.

Mark S. Gorriceta is the Managing Partner and Head of the Corporate, Banking and Finance, and Technology, Media, and Telecommunications (TMT) Groups of Gorriceta Africa Cauton & Saavedra – a multi- awarded and full service Philippine law firm established in 2015 with offices in Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand.

He represents domestic conglomerates in their digitization efforts as well as the Philippines’ top technology companies – both local and global entities – and further renders his expertise in corporate structuring, tax, banking & finance, capital markets, equity financing, and in navigating complex cross-border commercial transactions.

With over 20 years of experience in private practice, Mark has developed an extensive expertise in complex corporate transactions, commercial contracts and regulatory matters in a range of areas that impact businesses – whether for start-ups or for Top 1000 companies in the Philippines. He is a leading lawyer in the Philippines in the fields of Capital Markets, Mergers & Acquisitions and Securities Law. Mark has been recognized as one of the Philippines’ Top 100 Lawyers for four consecutive years (2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023) by the Asia Business Law Journal. With pioneering expertise on the law on digital assets, fintech, blockchain, virtual currencies, e-commerce, data privacy, and artificial intelligence, he is legal counsel to the biggest and most impactful technology and online companies in the Philippines and has been recognized as one of the Top Technology Media & Telco Lawyers in Asia and Ranked # 1 in the Philippines in the Tech/Fintech space.

Mark is currently a faculty member of the Ateneo de Manila University’s Graduate School of Business and teaches Mergers & Acquisitions for the Advanced Module Diploma Course in Corporate Finance. Mark also serves as lecturer at the Fintech and Regulatory Innovation Program of the Mapua University in collaboration with the University of Cambridge of England.

2016- Present- Managing Partner- Gorriceta Africa Cauton & Saavedra 2009- 2015- Partner - Javier Santiago Torres & Gorriceta 2004- 2008- Associate- Quiason Makalintal Barot Torres & Ibarra

English, Filipino

Blockchain Council of the Philippines Financial Executives Institute of the Philippines Fintech Alliance Fintech Philippines Association Go Digital Pilipinas Movement Inc. Integrated Bar of the Philippines Institute of Corporate Directors Investment Houses’ Association of the Philippines Manila Angel Investors Network Spanish Chamber of Commerce in the Philippines Management Association of the Philippines Tax Management Association of the Philippines

A member of the Philippine Bar, Mark graduated law with honors and holds a Bachelor of Arts, Political Science degree from the Ateneo de Manila University. He also completed courses in Finance at the Asian Institute of Management in Makati City. He also completed two Masterclasses on Blockchain, Distributed Ledger & Smart Contracts in Singapore. Atty. Gorriceta is currently enrolled in Harvard University’s certificate program in Corporate Finance