Banking and Finance:
Judy Hao – Senior Partner
jhao@accralaw.com
Eusebio V. Tan – Of Counsel
evtan@accralaw.com
Andre B. Navato, Jr. – Partner
abnavatojr@accralaw.com
Joselito M. Bautista – Partner
jmbautista@accralaw.com
Elaine Patricia S. Reyes-Rodolfo – Partner
psr@accralaw.org
Everlene O. Lee – Partner
eolee@accralaw.com
Project Finance
Andre B. Navato, Jr. – Partner
abnavatojr@accralaw.com
Elaine Patricia S. Reyes-Rodolfo – Partner
psr@accralaw.org
Public Private Partnership
Eusebio V. Tan – Of Counsel
evtan@accralaw.com
Melissa Angela G. Velarde
– Partner
mgvelarde@accralaw.com
Immigration
Maria Khristina Z. Garcia Angel – Partner
kzgarcia@accralaw.com
Napoleon L. Gonzales III – Associate
nlgonzales@accralaw.com
Labor and Employment:
Emerico O. De Guzman – Managing Partner
eodeguzman@accralaw.com
Clarence Darrow C. Valdecantos - Partner
ccvaldecantos@accralaw.com
Neptali B. Salvanera – Partner
nbsalvanera@accralaw.com
Recent transactional highlights:
Immigration:
ACCRALAW represented two Korean nationals in their Petitions for Judicial Naturalization before the trial court and a Spanish national in her Petition for Administrative Naturalization with the Office of the Solicitor General. All Petitioners were successfully naturalized as Filipino citizens.
Labor and Employment:
- Collective Bargaining Negotiations with Kilusan ng Manggagawang Makabayan (“KMM-Katipunan”) Melco Resorts Leisure (PHP) Corporation – Table Games Division Chapter (“KMM TGD Chapter”)
ACCRA Labor and Employment Department is currently assisting Melco Resorts Leisure (PHP) Corporation (City of Dreams) in CBA negotiations with its Union.
- Unionization and certification election at C-Joy Poultry Meat Production, Inc. (an affiliate company of Cargill, Inc. and Cargill Philippines, Inc.)
The Union of rank-and-file employees of C-Joy filed a petition for certification election seeking to be certified as the sole and exclusive bargaining agent of 1,000 regular company rank-and-file employees. This is crucial and important to the company as, for the first time in its history, this would mean that majority of its employees would be under a bargaining unit and be covered by a collective bargaining agreement.
ACCRA Labor and Employment Department assisted the company in ensuring that the certification election be clean, honest, orderly, reflective of the true will of the employees, even as the company ensured that the rights of the union are not violated. There were 2 choices in the election, supervised by the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) – “Union” and “No Union.” The choice “No Union” won overwhelmingly. The Union conceded defeat and committed to cooperate with the company.
