sy & Partners

Previously, Felix Sy was the Managing Partner/Country Head of Insights Philippines Legal Advisors,
Philippine Member of ZICO Law ASEAN Network. He also served in the Executive Committee of ZICO Law and was the Co-Head of the ASEAN Corporate/M&A Regional Practice.

He was also a Partner and Head of the Banking & Finance/Insurance Practice Group at Baker & McKenzie in the Philippines. Felix was a member of Baker & McKenzie’s Asia Pacific Insurance Focus Group Steering Committee and the Financial Services and Energy, Mining & Infrastructure Industry Groups.

Felix has won many awards and recognition as a leading lawyer and legal expert.

Felix is admitted to the Philippine Bar and the California Bar (U.S.A.).

Felix is a Fellow at the Institute of Corporate Directors. Felix is a founding trustee of the Energy Lawyers Association of the Philippines.

* In this alliance, matters concerning Philippine Law will generally be reviewed and undertaken by lawyer(s) from Sy & Partners.

Experience

• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Corporate, Commercial
• Banking and Finance, Structured Finance, Securitization, Derivatives and Financial Products
• Financial Institutions and Markets
• Real Estate Joint Ventures and Financing
• Insurance & Bancassurance Transactions and Products
  Power, Energy, Renewables, Infrastructure, Utilities, Privatization, Build-Operate-Transfer/Public Private Partnership
• Compliance
• Corporate Strategy / Negotiations
• Crisis Management
• Geoeconomics, Strategy and National Security
  

Languages

• English
• Tagalog / Cebuano
  

Qualifications

• National Defense College of the Philippines (Masters in National Security Administration, Gold Medal in Academic Excellence), Philippines
• Cornell Law School (LL.M. Honors), New York, U.S.A.
• Ateneo de Manila University (J.D.), Philippines
• NUS (Strategic Management Program), Singapore
  

Previously, Shennan Sy was a Partner of Campos Canobas Sy Selva Ligon Dato (“CSLD”) [formerly Sy Selva], where he honed his skills in: joint venture arrangements; review of various contracts; tax advisory; tax advocacy; business acquisitions; due diligence of business organizations and properties; and, compliance management and regulatory representation before administrative agencies.

Prior to becoming a partner in CSLD, Shennan was a senior associate at the banking, finance, & tax practice of the Quisumbing Torres Law Firm (“QT”), the Manila member firm of Baker & McKenzie International. While at QT, Shennan’s practice involved, among others, the following aspects of tax and corporate laws: inward investments; corporate restructuring such as mergers, consolidations, spin-offs and de-mergers; transfer pricing; and, taxation under the network of Philippine tax treaties and various investments laws. He had done several due diligence works and had advised and represented clients in numerous significant transactions.

Shennan has published both locally and internationally. He has authored or co-authored 20 articles in his field of expertise. He is also frequently invited as a lecturer / speaker on tax law and issues. In 2004, Shennan was a member of the Court of Tax Appeals’ Committee on the Revision of Rules of the Court of Tax Appeals. Shennan was also a Director of the Tax Management Association of the Philippines in 2004 and 2005.

Shennan figured prominently at 6th place in the 1995 bar exam and was admitted to the Philippine Bar in 1996. He placed 7th in the board exams administered by the Philippines Professional Regulatory Commission in May 1991 for certified public accountants.

He obtained his Master of Laws degree from the University of Michigan – Ann Arbor in 2002. He obtained this degree as a Fulbright Scholar and DeWitt Fellow. He completed the Foundations of American Law and Legal Education Program at the Georgetown University Law Center in 2001, as a Fulbright Scholar. He received his Juris Doctor degree (class salutatorian) from the Ateneo de Manila University in 1995. He graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Science in Commerce degree, major in Accountancy, and a Bachelor of Arts degree, major in Economics, from the De La Salle University in 1990.

Experience

• Business and Property Acquisitions
• Business Structuring and Registrations
• Compliance Management and Representation
• Corporate Restructuring
• Contract Reviews
• Due Diligence related works
• Estate Planning and Settlement
• Investment Incentives
• Joint Venture Agreements
• Real Estate Transactions
• Tax Advisory
• Tax Advocacy
• Tax Treaties

Languages

• English
• Tagalog
  

Qualifications

• University of Michigan – Ann Arbor (LL.M.) (2002)
• Georgetown University Law Center (Program on American Law and Legal Education) (2001)
• Ateneo de Manila University (J.D.) (1995)
• De La salle University (B.Sc. and B.A.) (1990)