Angara Abello Concepcion Regala & Cruz Law Offices (ACCRALaw)’s group is well regarded for its ‘excellent handling of dispute resolution cases’. The practice has extensive expertise handling the variety of high-value litigious cases, including defending companies in multi-claimant disputes against consumers, recovery of property cases and matters concerning banking and finance, the outcome of which could impact banking practices in the Philippines. Oliver L. Pantaleon ’obtains outstanding results’ and leads the team alongside Patricia Tysmans-Clemente and Jose Martin R. Tensuan. Other key contacts in the group include Victor P. Lazatin, Arnold Corporal and George S.D. Aquino.
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‘ACCRA is an excellent firm because of its experience, expertise, extensive practice, depth of team and reliability.’
‘Extensive experience of lawyers, expertise on matters, assertiveness, and practically of solutions provided all make the team stand out. Leland Villadolid, Antonio Eduardo Nachura, and Joseph Anthony Malaya stand out as excellent lawyers and advocates.’
‘The dispute resolution practice has such excellent expertise on different terms prevailing in the retail electricity supply market. ACCRA provides such degree of expertise in this new arena of dispute resolution.’
‘The firm provides excellent handling of dispute resolution cases, ensuring clients feel confident of the outcome. They provide a battery of lawyers for each case ensuring every facet is addressed.’
‘The team is highly collaborative and makes a genuine effort to understand the business of clients as well as the interests and objectives of the same. They strive to give objective but pragmatic legal solutions and make their recommendations accordingly.’
‘Rowena Flores is a master strategist. She sees the entire case in her head, with all possible outcomes. George Aquino is shrewd and can be as aggressive or amiable as the situation calls for.’
Key clients
- Meta Platforms, Inc.
- Sanofi Pasteur
- PMFTC, Inc
- Chevron Philippines, Inc.
- Megaworld Corporation
- Manila Electric Company
- Meralco MPower
- Banker's Association of the Philippines
- Smartmatic TIM Corporation
- Smartmatic Philippines, Inc.
- Titan Dragon Properties Corporation
- Bank of the Philippine Islands
Work highlights
Advised a multinational software company with significant government contracts as to its remedies, defences, and strategies to protect its interests in particular, and of the public in general, before different government investigating bodies.
Advised Meralco MPower and its affiliate in their various contractual disputes with their contestable customers as a result of passing on the FCRA charges of their generators due to unprecedented global fuel price hike which started in 2022.
Advised associations of banks in the Philippines in assailing the constitutionality of Section 23 of Republic Act No. 11293 or the Philippine Innovation Act.
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Practice head
Oliver L. Pantaleon; Patricia Tysmans-Clemente; Jose Martin R. Tensuan
Other key lawyers
Patricia-Ann T. Prodigalidad; Leland Villadolid; Gilberto D. Gallos; Antonio Eduardo Nachura; Joseph Anthony Malaya; Rowena Flores; George S.D. Aquino; Victor P. Lazatin; Arnold Corporal