Baker McKenzie LLP

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 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