SyCip Salazar Hernandez & Gatmaitan
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SyCip Salazar Hernandez & Gatmaitan (“SyCipLaw”) is the largest law firm in the Philippines. Founded in 1945, the firm is now a full-service firm with 125 lawyers practicing out of its four offices in Makati, Cebu, Davao and Subic Bay.
SyCip Salazar has been named the Philippines’ National Law Firm of the Year by the International Financial Law Review in the years 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2005. Its representative list of clients includes Chevron Texaco, General Electric, Citicorp, Goldman Sachs, Lehman Brothers, American Express, Bank of America, Asian Development Bank and the government of the United States of America. The firm is a member of at least three international law firm networks, such as Multilaw, Pacific Rim Advisory Council and the World Law Group.
SyCip Salazar counts among its alumni founders of its competitors in the Philippine legal market, such as the prestigious ACCRALAW, Quisumbing Torres, and Castillo Laman Tan Pantaleon & San Jose. Many of the firm's alumni have also joined top law firms in other markets all over the world, such as Baker & McKenzie in Chicago, Illinois, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett in New York, Warner Norcross & Juddin Grand Rapids, Michigan, Clifford Chance in London, Mori Hamada & Matsumoto in Tokyo, Japan, and Allen & Gledhill in Singapore.
Former Philippine Supreme Court Justice Florentino P. Feliciano, who served on the WTO Dispute Settlement Body, was the firm's managing partner from 1983 to 1986 and is now the firm’s senior counsel. The firm’s immediate past managing partner, Andres G. Gatmaitan, was the only Filipino named on Asian Legal Business Magazine's Hot 100 List for 2004. The magazine noted that SyCipLaw "set[s] the standard in the market".
