SyCip Salazar Hernandez & Gatmaitan

Special Projects; Banking, Finance & Securities; Tax; Corporate Services.

Carina C. Laforteza is a lawyer and a certified public accountant with extensive corporate and tax practice. She is a Partner of SyCip Salazar Hernandez & Gatmaitan, one of the largest law firms in the Philippines, and currently heads the firm’s Tax Practice Group.

Her specialization is in corporate work, specifically special projects, financing, tax and corporate services. She is also currently involved in tax litigation and administrative proceedings.

Ms. Laforteza does mergers, acquisitions, and divestments (including the corporate structuring and financing aspects). She has advised clients in the aviation, food manufacturing, advertising, mass media, telecommunications and money remittance industries.

Ms. Laforteza became a partner in SyCip Salazar Hernandez & Gatmaitan (SyCipLaw) in 2003. She joined the firm in 1993 as an associate and became a senior associate in 1998. Prior to joining SyCipLaw, she worked for SyCip Gorres Velayo & Co. as audit staff.

Ms. Laforteza has been a professorial lecturer in taxation at the University of the Philippines since 2009. She has also taught business law at the University of the Philippines School of Economics.

Ms. Laforteza received her Bachelor of Science in Business Administration and Accountancy (1986, cum laude) and Bachelor of Laws (1992, cum laude, class valedictorian) from the University of the Philippines.

She placed second in the 1987 Certified Public Accountant (CPA) Board Examinations and third in the 1992 Bar Examinations.