SyCip Salazar Hernandez & Gatmaitan

Employment and Litigation; Litigation

Joanna Marie O. Joson is a partner in SyCip Salazar Hernandez & Gatmaitan. She specializes in acquisitions, foreign investments, corporate reorganization and restructuring, insurance, labor and taxation. She also handles general corporate services, legal due diligence, and general contract drafting and review.

She has assisted in rendering regulatory advice on life and non-life insurance and reinsurance matters to a foreign insurance company. She also renders tax advice in connection with deals involving acquisitions, investments and divestments, and corporate reorganizations in, among others, the real estate, mining, food and aviation industries, as well as transactions in connection with securities issuances. She has been involved in the conduct of legal due diligence for special projects such as the acquisition of shares in corporations in the power, mining, food, advertising, pharmaceutical and animal health industries.

Ms. Joson obtained her undergraduate and law (second honors) degrees from the Ateneo de Manila University. She was admitted to the Philippine Bar in 2010.