MVGS LAW - Key Persons


Christopher Lawrence C. Ferriols

Job Titles:
  • Associate
  • Associate / MVGS Lawyer
  • Education

Eduardo A. Martinez

Job Titles:
  • Senior Partner
  • Contributor to the Daily Tribune
  • Exceptional‘ Practice Head
  • Senior Partner Head, Dispute Resolution
Eduardo is regular contributor to the Daily Tribune, a local newspaper of national circulation, where he has a column - the Anteroom.

Erika B. Paulino

Job Titles:
  • Partner
  • Partner Co - Head, Projects & Energy Head, Restructuring and Insolvency Head, Data Privacy and Security
‘The team led by Atty. Erika B. Paulino provides useful, sound, and timely advice to us. The transaction documents that they prepared for us are well-drafted and were reviewed thoroughly.'

Genevieve Kristine B. Manalac

Job Titles:
  • Associate
  • Associate / MVGS Lawyer
  • Education

Geraldine Marie V. Paulo

Job Titles:
  • Associate
  • Associate / MVGS Lawyer
  • Education
Geraldine Marie Paulo joined MVGS as an Associate in 2022. She received her Juris Doctor degree in 2021 from the University of the Philippines. As a student, she gained her legal and practical skills by working as Legal Assistant at the Supreme Court of the Philippines under the Office of Associate Justice Marvic M.V.F. Leonen and as Faculty Research Assistant of renowned family law expert Professor Elizabeth Aguiling-Pangalangan. In MVGS, Geraldine has been involved in advising clients with dispute resolution and litigation matters. She has been focusing her expertise on persons and family relations, handling a number of adoption petitions and declaration of nullity of marriage cases. Her practice likewise includes arbitration, immigration, and civil and commercial litigation, including debt restructuring (rehabilitation and insolvency) and data privacy compliance.

Gino Paulo O. Uy

Job Titles:
  • Partner
  • Education
  • Partner Co - Head, Immigration Co - Head, Mergers & Acquisitions, Capital Markets & Corporate Services
  • Senior Associates of the Immigration Practice Group

Gwyneth S. Ong

Job Titles:
  • Partner
  • Member of the Firm 's Corporate
  • Partner Co - Head, Capital Markets Co - Head, Projects & Energy Co - Head, Anti - Trust and Competition
Gwyneth is a member of the Firm's Corporate and Commercial Group, heading the Firm's specialized areas of Anti-Trust and Competition and Corporate Services, and co-heading the Firm's Capital Markets and Projects & Energy practice groups.

Hosea LeiJan L. Salazar

Job Titles:
  • Associate

Jaime S. Fernandez

Job Titles:
  • Associate
  • Associate / MVGS Lawyer
  • Education

JASON J. JIMENEZ

Job Titles:
  • Education

Jason S. Jimenez

Job Titles:
  • Senior Associate
  • Senior Associate / MVGS Lawyer

Jose Alfonso O.

Job Titles:
  • Associate

Juan Carlos Miguel B. Tan

Job Titles:
  • Associate
  • Associate / MVGS Lawyer
  • Education / University of the Philippines

Kristine R. Bongcaron

Job Titles:
  • Partner Head, Intellectual Property Co - Head, Commercial Arbitration and Alternative Dispute Resolution Co - Head, Data Privacy and Security

Manuel Z. Gonzalez

Job Titles:
  • Senior Partner
  • Senior Partner Head, Capital Markets Head, Projects & Energy Head, Anti - Trust and Competition

Marie Claudine B. Bernas

Job Titles:
  • Associate
  • Associate / MVGS Lawyer
  • Education

Mark O. Vergara

Job Titles:
  • Senior Partner
  • Philippine Expert in the Field of Banking
  • Senior Partner Head, Banking and Finance
Mark is a recognized Philippine expert in the field of Banking and Finance, with more than 30 years of experience in acting as counsel to private and government banks and financial institutions, local and foreign, for financing projects, including loan syndications, project finance, debt restructuring, bond issuance and secured financing.

Mary Elizabeth

Job Titles:
  • Partner

Miguel R. Sevilla

Job Titles:
  • Senior Associate
  • Education
  • Member of the Firm 's Dispute
  • Senior Associate / MVGS Lawyer
Miguel R. Sevilla is a member of the Firm's Dispute Resolution and Labor and Employment practice groups. He specializes in arbitration and other forms of alternative dispute resolution, with a strong foundation in construction arbitration proceedings. He also has extensive experience in negotiations, allowing clients to enjoy favorable terms through amicable settlements. He also assists in obtaining material information for clients constrained to litigate claims. Miguel is a member, a trained arbitrator, and an accredited file counsel of the Philippine Dispute Resolution Center, Inc., a Philippine-based institution administering arbitration. Miguel also has solid dispute resolution experience in areas of commercial and property disputes, family relations, and criminal litigation. As a member of the Labor and Employment practice group, he represents clients in in illegal dismissal and labor standards case, and regularly advises them in administrative proceedings and on merits of cases and penalties. He likewise represents corporate employers in collective bargaining negotiations, successfully securing favorable terms for the clients.

Patrick Anthony L. Caldo

Job Titles:
  • Associate
  • Associate / MVGS Lawyer
  • Education

Raquel Monique L. Luna

Job Titles:
  • Associate
  • Associate / MVGS Lawyer
  • Education

Reynaldo T. Dizon

Job Titles:
  • Advisor
  • Partner
  • Partner Head, Labor and Employment
Reynaldo is also the trusted advisor of several clients who have requested him to act as their corporate secretary and engaged the Firm's retainer services.

Rosalia S. Bartolome-Alejo

Job Titles:
  • Partner
  • Partner at Martinez Vergara & Gonzalez Sociedad
Rosalia has been a partner at Martinez Vergara & Gonzalez Sociedad since 2006. Prior to that, she was a partner at Picazo Buyco Tan Fider & Santos. She also acted as the Internal Legal Counsel of Calenergy International Services, Inc. from 2001 to 2002, and was an associate lawyer of Carpio Villaraza & Cruz from 1996 to 1997.

Shirley F. Alinea

Job Titles:
  • Partner Co - Head, Dispute Resolution Head, Immigration Head, Commercial Arbitration and Alternative Dispute Resolution Co - Head, Restructuring and Insolvency

Socrates Jerome de Guzman

Job Titles:
  • Associate
  • Associate / MVGS Lawyer
  • Education

Trisha Anne C. Yaokasin

Job Titles:
  • Associate
  • Education