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SPONSORED: Single Entry Approach: Mandatory Conciliation and Mediation of Labor Disputes

BY SyCip Salazar Hernandez & Gatmaitan |

In October 2010, in light of the policy in the Constitution and the Labor Code on the preferential use of voluntary modes of dispute settlement, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) issued Department Order No. 107-10 (DO 107-10)
Philippines: Former SyCipLaw MP launches new firm after retirement

BY Eileen Ang |

Rafael A. Morales, the erstwhile managing partner of SyCip Salazar Hernandez & Gatmaitan, has set up his own firm after retiring from his post in March.
SE Asia Deals: Week of Mar 7

BY Karuna Jainpalli |

A&G, DLA Piper, Lee & Lee and WongPartnership on $795 mln sale of 3 City Developments office assets to Golden Crest Holdings; Gibson Dunn, PicazoLaw and SyCip on AP Renewables’ $225 mln “climate bond” for Philippine geothermal plants, and more in this week’s Southeast Asia deals table.
Freshfields, Gibson Dunn lead on landmark Asian climate bond

BY Eileen Ang |

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher has represented AP Renewables, a unit of Philippine energy company Aboitiz Power, in the issuance of a landmark climate bond worth P10.7 billion ($225 million) for the Tiwi-MakBan geothermal power facilities.
‘The legal market has changed, and transformation is continuing’

BY Kanishk Verghese |

Rafael Morales, Managing Partner of SyCip, Salazar, Hernandez & Gatmaitan, Philippines’ largest law firm, speaks to Kanishk Verghese
Outsourcing Update: BPOS are finding a home in Cebu

BY SyCip Salazar Hernandez & Gatmaitan |

One of the fastest-growing and dynamic industries in the Philippines today is the business process outsourcing (BPO) industry.
Uber and out: the Philippines legalizes Uber business model

BY SyCip Salazar Hernandez & Gatmaitan |

Uber has been the most recent poster child of disruptive innovation; its business model refuses to fit typical parameters by which most countries regulate public transport.
Philippine BPOS: employment prospects & issues

BY SyCip Salazar Hernandez & Gatmaitan |

In recent years, the Philippines has emerged as one of the major players in the business process outsourcing (“BPO”) industry, which is defined by the government as the “delegation of servicetype business processes to a third party service provider.”
The new PDRCRI arbitration rules

BY SyCip Salazar Hernandez & Gatmaitan |

The Philippine Dispute Resolution Center, Inc. (PDRCI), the leading commercial arbitration institution in the Philippines, recently amended its Arbitration Rules to adopt modern international commercial arbitration practice.