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Aboitiz Equity Ventures (AEV) acts as holding company for a diverse range of businesses involved in the industrials, consumer goods, utilities and financials sectors; this provides a varied and challenging workload for its legal team that allows it to show off its considerable abilities. In particular, the team has been praised by a nominating source as being particularly adept in supporting the company’s compliance goals: ‘The team is responsible for going beyond minimum compliance since AEV has been commended for its commitment to good corporate governance and corporate social responsibility. With the support of a reliable legal team, the Aboitiz Group was cited in a legal recognition award in 2013 for Best Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Best Investor Relations Company Awards for AEV’. Senior vice president for governance and compliance Jasmine Oporto came in for high praise by nominators, who described her as ‘a multi-faceted, dynamic, and experienced counsel who is instrumental in helping Aboitiz Equity Ventures Group of Companies (AEV) pursue its vision’. She, and the rest of the AEV legal and compliance team, can take a significant proportion of the credit for the esteemed reputation that AEV enjoys in the Phillipines business scene. As a nominating source put it, ‘AEV and its major subsidiaries, have been recognised as one of the best professionally managed companies in the Philippines and in the ASEAN region’.