INTRODUCTION
Tara has extensive experience advising domestic and foreign companies on a variety of matters, including structuring of foreign investments, corporate structuring, corporate governance, compliance and regulatory issues, employee relations, and taxation.
EDUCATION / PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
- 2016 | Columbia University (LL.M.)
- 2010 | Ateneo de Manila University (J.D.), with honors
- 2006 | Ateneo de Manila University (A.B. Management Economics)
QUALIFICATIONS
- 2010 | Admitted in Republic of the Philippines
- 2016 | Admitted in New York
REPRESENTATIVE WORK
- US$5.4 billion joint venture arrangement with China Telecommunications Corporation for DITO Telecommunity Corp., which was selected as the third telecommunications player in the Philippines. DITO’s historic winning bid is the first full service-telecommunications license to be released in Asia in almost 100 years. Also assisted DITO in the renewal of its Congressional franchise and provided advise relating to the amendments of the Philippine Public Service Act.
- Advised Unity Digital Infrastructure, Inc, a joint venture between the Partners Group and the Aboitiz Group, in its US$ 164.8 million acquisition of a telecom towers portfolio of PLDT, Inc. through a sale and lease transaction with subsidiaries of PLDT.
- Advised the edotco Group in its approximately US$840 million acquisition of a telecom towers portfolio of PLDT, Inc. through a sale and lease transaction with subsidiaries of PLDT.
- Acted as Philippine counsel to Deutsche Bank AG, JP Morgan Securities Ltd. and UBS AG with respect to matters of Philippine law in connection with the US$1 billion initial public offering of Robinsons Retail Holdings, Inc., the largest in the history of the Philippine Stock Exchange.
- Acted as transaction counsel to the Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System and the Public Private Partnership Center of the Philippines with respect to the bidding for the US$542.22 million Bulacan Bulk Water Supply Project, the first water public-private partnership to be rolled out by the Philippine government