Bio

Philbert Varona is a member of the firm’s Special Projects and Banking, Finance & Securities groups. His practice areas include mergers and acquisitions, finance and securities, foreign investments, and infrastructure and government contracts. He was a professorial lecturer at the Ateneo de Manila University from 1998-1999. He has contributed several articles to Asian Legal Business and other publications. He co-authored the Philippine chapter of the 2011/2012 edition of Privatisation & Public Private Partnership, as well as the Philippine chapter of M&A in Asia, an upcoming publication on the legal framework on mergers and acquisitions in the region. Mr. Varona also worked as a foreign attorney at Mori Hamada & Matsumoto in Tokyo in 2007.