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A-List: Philippines 2022

Maria Elizabeth Peralta-Loriega

Sarmiento Loriega

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Tel: +632 7798 8115
Email: meploriega@sl-lawoffice.com

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Practice areas

Taxation; M&A; energy; project finance; acquisition finance; EPC contracts, real estate; land registration; privatisation; estate planning; construction & infrastructure; general corporation law

Introduction

The co-managing partner of Sarmiento Loriega Law Office, Maria Elizabeth Peralta-Loriega, graduated class salutatorian from the University of the Philippines’ College of Law. Loriega, who is also a certified public accountant, placed 19th in the 1995 Philippine Bar Examinations and graduated 4th in rank and cum laude from the University of the Philippines with a degree in bachelor of science in business administration and accountancy.

In M&A and project finance, Loriega is known as a seasoned and highly ranked practitioner. Through the years, she has acted as counsel in major acquisition and project finance deals in the energy, real estate, infrastructure, banking, retail, manufacturing, and telecommunications sectors. Most of the deals worked on by Loriega through the years have won citations as the deal of the year, M&A deal of the year, and project finance deal of the year from prestigious deal award-winning bodies.

In the field of taxation, Loriega’s award-winning tax practice is heavily sought after for expert, insightful, methodical and practical tax advice. Having served as a Philippine tax expert before international arbitration tribunals, her expertise enables her to provide effective and innovative tax solutions and deal structures, including multi-party transactions requiring complex corporate structuring.

Asia Business Law Journal has consistently cited Loriega as among the Philippines’ Top 100 Lawyers in 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022. The Asian Legal Business has named Loriega among the Top 15 M&A Lawyers for 2022. She was also cited by Chambers & Partners as a highly ranked lawyer in taxation and M&A. Loriega was also cited as among the Top 100 Women in Litigation (tax litigation) for Asia Pacific for 2020 and Litigation Star for 2021 and 2022 by Benchmark Litigation.

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