Quisumbing Torres

Corporate & Commercial

Partner

Alain Charles Veloso is a partner and assistant head of Quisumbing Torres' Corporate & Commercial/M&A Practice Group. He heads the firm's Capital Markets Practice Group and the Financial Institutions Industry Group. He is also a member of the Technology, Media & Telecommunications Industry Group. He participates in the initiatives of Baker McKenzie International of which Quisumbing Torres is a member firm. He is a member of Baker McKenzie's Asia Pacific Competition Steering Committee. He has 17 years of legal practice, advising clients with regard to their transactions in the Philippines, including private and public M&A transactions, financing, and equity capital markets transactions.

Charles is also active in the firm's Corporate Social Responsibility initiatives. He heads the firm's Inclusion, Diversity & Equity, and B-Green committees. He is currently a Director of the Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP) Makati Chapter, and currently serves as the Chairperson of its Diversity and Inclusion Committee, and Legal Education Committee.

Charles is recognized as Leading Individual for Capital Markets in 2020 to 2024, and Antitrust and Competition in 2024 by The Legal 500 Asia Pacific. He was also cited as one of the leading competition lawyers by Who's Who Legal: Southeast Asia 2022 to 2023 - Competition edition, and WWL’s Future Leader for Competition in 2022 to 2023. He was awarded Client Choice Awards for Competition by Lexology 2021 and 2022, and Young Lawyer of the Year by Asian Legal Business Philippine Law Awards 2020. The Asian-MENA In-House Community Counsels cited him as External Counsel of the Year in Asia by in 2019, and he was ranked as a Next Generation Lawyer for Corporate and M&A by Legal 500 Asia Pacific for 2017 and 2018. He was also a 2018 Bench and Bar Awardee of the Integrated Bar of the Philippines' Leyte Chapter.

Charles studied Law at the UP College of Law (cum laude and class valedictorian) and EU Competition Law at the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2017. He is also a Certified Public Accountant.

Charles has represented various companies engaged in the energy, power generation, infrastructure, mining and natural resources, real estate and construction, healthcare and pharmaceuticals, retail and distribution, manufacturing, business process outsourcing, information technology and telecommunications, fintech, and advertising industries. He has assisted several multinational companies in connection with the set-up, structuring, and maintenance of their Philippine operations, including advising them on legal and regulatory issues, contract review, and negotiation of joint venture agreements with local partners. He also handles the registration of companies with the Philippine Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), and other government agencies. Charles also handles the review and implementation of stock-based incentives of several multinational corporations with presence in the Philippines. He also handles corporate maintenance for a publicly-listed company, and companies with secondary licenses.

English, Filipino