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SyCip Salazar Hernandez & Gatmaitan
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Benedicto Panigbatan
- Phone+632 8982 3500
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Work Department
Corporate Services; Tax; Special Projects; Banking, Finance and Securities.
Position
Benedicto P. Panigbatan is a partner in SyCip Salazar Hernandez & Gatmaitan. He is a member of the firm’s Corporate Services, Tax, Special Projects, and Banking, Finance and Securities practice groups.
His practice areas cover mergers and acquisitions, foreign investments, corporate structuring and reorganization, sale and purchase of non-performing/distressed assets of banks and financial institutions, securities regulation, documentation of loans and security arrangements, taxation (including estate planning, availment of reliefs and exemptions under various tax treaties), joint ventures and financing for real estate projects, mining and construction projects, general corporate services, legal due diligence exercises, and general contract drafting, review and negotiations.
Mr. Panigbatan is acting as corporate secretary or assistant corporate secretary in various companies in the fields of real estate, pharmaceuticals, tollroad business, mining, business process outsourcing, and investment house business.
Education
Mr. Panigbatan obtained his Bachelor of Arts (summa cum laude) from University of San Agustin. He earned the degree of Bachelor of Laws from the University of the Philippines where he ranked 7th in the graduating class of 1997 and received the Dean’s Medal for Academic Excellence.