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PHILLIPPINES
Managing Partner of the Year
DivinaLaw is a leading full-service law firm in the Philippines. We take pride in advocating and practicing dynamic lawyering – always prompt, proactive and result-oriented. DivinaLaw’s clients include leading companies in banking and finance, manufacturing, retail, power, oil and gas, education, health care and insurance, realty and property development, and technology.
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Top-tier Litigation Practice DivinaLaw understands the impact of a major litigation. Often costly and inconvenient, we are committed to helping clients avoid them. When litigation becomes unavoidable, we strategize and determine the best course of action to fully protect the client’s interests or to contain the risks and minimize its effects.
Our collective litigation experience may be said to be among the most extensive in the country. Many of the cases we have handled have often drawn public attention due to the high profile nature of the work, as well as impact it might have for our clients. We have won several landmark cases which eventually found their way in the annals of Philippine jurisprudence.
Our roster of satisfied clients include several high-profile and ranking government officials, former presidents and incumbent presidents of Government Financial Institutions (GFIs), corporate industry leaders and high net-worth individuals being represented by the Firm in various capacities.
Top-tier Corporate Law Practice DivinaLaw’s corporate law practice is among the best in the country. We advise and represent businesses, mostly industry leaders, on a wide range of legal and business issues including negotiation, drafting, and review of contracts and other agreements.
Our clients consider us as legal advisers and partners in their growth and expansion. Our lawyers have facility in tax, labor and employment, environmental impact, real estate and competition law, which allow us to provide comprehensive and relevant advisory and transactional work for clients and insulating them, to the best possible extent, from future litigation. Under the helm of the Managing Partner, Atty. Nilo Divina, who is a recognized expert in commercial and corporate law, we have ability to discuss the commercial and practical implications of decisions beyond purely technical legal advice.
Awards and Recognitions With its consistent rendition of high quality swift legal service, it comes as no surprise that the Firm, barely a decade from its inception, has been conferred prestigious excellence awards, including the: • Innovation Excellence Award for Most Outstanding
Independent Law Firm in the Philippines for 2015 • A-list of the top 100 lawyers in the Philippines by Asia Business law for three consecutive years 2018 to 2020 • ACQ Law Award for Leading Independent Law Firm of the
Year for 2014 • Corporate LiveWire Awards’ Corporate Law Firm of the Year in the Philippines for 2016 • Asian Legal Business (ALB) Philippine Law Awards’ Labor and
Employment Law Firm of the Year for 2016 • Corporate LiveWire Awards’ Banking Law Firm of the Year –
Philippines for 2017 • Corporate International Magazine’s Investment Law Firm of the Year in the Philippines for 2016 and 2017 • Corporate International Magazine’s Commercial Litigation
Law Firm in the Philippines for 2017 • ACQ Global Award’s Philippine Law Firm of the Year for 2017 • ACQ Global Award’s Corporate Law Firm of the Year for 2017 • ACQ Global Award’s Philippine Law Firm of the Year for 2017
Atty. Nilo T. Divina was given the ACQ Global Award for Managing Partner of the Year for 2015 and 2017. He was also a finalist and the sole Philippine nominee for the coveted Regional Managing Partner of the Year Award. For the Asian
Legal Business (ALB) 13th Annual ALB SE Asia Law Awards held on 18 May 2017 at The St. Regis, Singapore.
Atty. Estrella C. Elamparo, Senior Partner and Head of the Commercial and Criminal Litigation Department, was awarded Woman Lawyer of the Year for the SouthEast Asian Region, while the Firm was named finalist in the Regional Litigation Law Firm of the Year category, in the ALB SE Asia Law Awards.
DivinaLaw earlier dominated the ALB Philippine Law Awards 2016 it was named Labor and Employment Law Firm of the Year, and shortlisted in the Litigation, Arbitration and Investments Law Firm of the Year categories.
International Links DivinaLaw is the sole Philippine member of Lawyers Associated Worldwide, a top-rated international association of over 100 independent law firms from more than 50 countries. We are also the only Philippine member of LEGALINK, also a top-ranked global network of 68 independent law firms from a majority of the world’s commercial centers. The Firm’s affiliation with and membership in these top international legal associations gives it access to cross-border information crucial to the handling of international commercial transactions.
The Managing Partner Nilo T. Divina, managing partner, is a leading counsellor and authority in Philippine corporate law and litigation. He founded the firm in 2006, and has been the firm’s managing partner since. He grew the firm from a crew of nine lawyers to the present complement of 74 attorneys and counsels. He is also the dean of the Faculty of Civil Law of the University of Santo Tomas, one the Philippines’ leading law schools. Atty. Divina’s experience spans some 25 years of appearing before courts of all levels and various quasi-judicial agencies. He led the firm in winning several landmark cases before the Philippine Supreme Court, including cases that clarified important issues in credit transactions, the National Internal Revenue Code, and the Family Code, and helped strengthen parts of the Rules of Corporate Rehabilitation.
He is an active member of several Supreme Court committees on reforms in legal education and court procedures, and has been the incumbent dean of the UST Faculty of Civil Law, the oldest law school in Asia, since 2009. He is recognized as an expert and the youngest Bar Reviewer in Commercial Law in the Philippines.
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