Received her Bachelor of Laws (Ll.B.) degree from the University of the Philippines in 1995 and was admitted to the Philippine Bar in 1996, having obtained the 7th highest ranking in the Bar Examinations. She served as law clerk for Associate Justice (ret.) Vicente V. Mendoza. She later became legal counsel for ABS-CBN Broadcasting Corporation. She was formerly an associate attorney with Poblador Bautista & Reyes. She is also a regular faculty member of the University of the Philippines College of Law, where she has been a Senior Lecturer since 1997, in Constitutional Law, Commercial Law Review, Alternative Dispute Resolution, Credit Transactions and Legal History. She also served as alternate director on an Advisory Board to the National Telecommunications Commission.

• Conducts registration eligibility searches and applications for registration of copyright, trademark, patent, industrial design, utility model, and other intellectual property rights, including preparation, review and/or registration of license and franchise agreements and other technology transfer arrangements with the Documentation, Information and Technology Transfer Bureau.

• Conducts intellectual property due diligence/audit.

• Currently acts as part of contract support team for international company involved in manufacturing of computer hardware and in provision of related services.

• Currently acts as counsel for a media management company and advises on multi-jurisdictional intellectual property issues.

• Has extensive experience in negotiating and drafting software license agreements, website development agreements, web hosting agreements, linking agreements, source code escrow agreements and teaming agreements. Work also includes providing legal advice for contact/call center companies, aggregators and brokers through the drafting of service agreements, reseller agreements and broker services agreements.

• Served as counsel in successful settlement effort involving infringement of copyright against a local recording label.

• Provides assistance to the Litigation, Energy and Special Projects, with the following relevant experience:

(i) Department of Energy (April 2004-present).  Member of the technical team of consultants acting as advisor to the Department of Energy in the DOE’s World Bank Systems Loss Reduction Project focusing on electric cooperatives requiring assistance in improving their financial viability.  Through a bidding process, an electric cooperative will determine the investor with whom it will execute an Investment Management Contract. Work primarily involves (i) setting up the legal framework for private sector participation in the distribution business; (ii) drafting of transaction documents and procedures for the bidding process; and (iii) coordination with the DOE, NEA, the Philippine Rural Electric Cooperatives Association, Inc. and the electric cooperatives board of directors and officers, particularly in ensuring a clear understanding of the concept of the Investment Management Contract.

(ii) PSALM Corporation (May 2003 – December 2003). Provided advice to PSALM Corporation in its privatization and restructuring activities. Assistance primarily included (i) structuring and preparation of/conduct of preliminary due diligence of an NPC generation asset; (ii) design of bidding process; (iii) drafting of the bidding documents; (iv) drafting of transaction documents, securing clearances/approvals from pertinent government agencies, including but not limited to the DOE, Department of Finance, Department of Justice, the Office of the General Corporate Counsel, NEDA-ICC and the NPC; and (v) participated in meetings and coordination with the agencies’ technical working groups.

(iii) National Telecommunications Commission (August 2003 to May 2004). Acted as consultant for the Cyberspace Policy Center for Asia-Pacific, in facilitating public-private collaboration for the establishment of an e-rulemaking facility for the National Telecommunications Commission.

She was also a member of a panel convened to determine best practices towards sound corporate governance in a selected government-owned and controlled corporation (GOCC), and handled litigation matters pertaining to sale and purchase of government asset through the then Asset Privatization Trust.