Antero Jose M. Caganda is a partner at the Firm’s Corporate, Tax Advisory, and Banking groups. He graduate with a Juris Doctor degree from the Ateneo Law School in 1994, and was admitted to the Philippine Bar in 1995. His practice is focused on business entity formation/reorganization/winding up, crossborder transaction structuring, acquisitions and divestitures, debt financing arrangements, securities transactions, real property acquisition and conveyancing, and contracts.

• Transaction advise on the acquisition of a major Philippine bank by way of a government privatization process;
• Supervising a team a lawyers engaged by Project EMERGE of the USAID to review the Philippine government policy on Financial Sector taxation (First Module). The study identified instances of tax arbitrage across different industries in the Philippine financial sector, with the purpose of eventually promoting a tax-neutral environment.
• Transaction advise on the real property asset acquisition by a private equity fund, including tax advise on the structure of the inward investment and the capital and profit repatriation upon divestiture of the investment.
• Legal review of the Philippine operations of a multinational seed products and planting materials company.

Atty. Caganda has advised a Philippine business process outsourcing (“BPO”) company in the partial acquisition by a Fortune 500 company of a US $15 million ownership stake and a China-based company in the US $20million acquisition of a mixed use leisure and resort park, where the Firm performed extensive due diligence, deal structuring, acquisition agreements drafting, and management of tax implications.