Gatmaytan Yap Patacsil Gutierrez & Protacio (C&G Law)

Corporate and commercial transactions

Partner

Jaime Renato (Jim) Gatmaytan is a founding partner and the head of Corporate Commercial practice at C&G Law.

He advises on corporate and commercial transactions, including equity investments, share and asset acquisitions, lending, security and other financing arrangements, real estate transactions, and construction and infrastructure projects.  His experience in energy, construction and infrastructure work tracked the development of build-operate-transfer arrangements in the Philippines, having assisted in a number of infrastructure projects undertaken under the then recently-enacted BOT legislation.  These include the development of various diesel-powered generation plants in Mindanao, the 1200-MW gas-fired Ilijan power plant and the 210-MW (net) STEAG State Power Inc. coal-fired power plant, as well as the Manila Metro Rail Transit System Line 3 (MRT3) along EDSA.

His work has extended outside of the Philippines and includes work with developers and sponsors on tenders for generation projects in China and Thailand, as well as structuring and documentation work in Indonesia, Pakistan, and Thailand.

Jim has been cited as a leading Philippine lawyer by Chambers & Partners Asia Pacific in the Corporate/Commercial field from 2010 – 2019, Corporate/M&A field from 2017 – 2023, and in the Projects, Energy and Infrastructure space from 2015 – 2022.  He has also been named as a leading lawyer in the M&A and Project Finance fields in the Philippines by IFLR1000 Asia Pacific from 2015. The Legal 500 Asia Pacific also recognises him as a leading lawyer in Real Estate and Construction and Projects and Energy in its 2016 – 2023 publications.

English, Filipino

Integrated Bar of the Philippines

University of the Philippines College of Law (Class of 1990, ranked 6th in his class) University of the Philippines, Degree in Humanities from the College of Arts and Letters (Class of 1985) Admitted to the Philippine Bar in 1991