Manila, Philippines, October 2025 – Quisumbing Torres’ Corporate & Commercial/M&A partners has once again been listed in the latest IFLR1000 Asia Pacific Lawyer Rankings 2025!
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Lawyer
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Practice Area
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Ranking
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Dennis Quintero |
Corporate and M&A (Energy, Oil and gas, Mining, Natural resources) |
Market Leader (Maintained) |
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Maria Christina Macasaet-Acaban |
Corporate and M&A |
Highly Regarded Lawyer (Maintained) |
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Julius Cervantes |
M&A |
Highly Regarded (New) |
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Luisa Fernandez-Guina |
M&A |
Highly Regarded (New) |
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Ramon Miguel Bacani |
Corporate and M&A |
Notable Practitioner (Maintained) |
Maria Christina Macasaet-Acaban, who heads the firm’s Corporate & Commercial/M&A Practice Group, and Dennis Quintero, who heads the firm’s Energy, Mining & Infrastructure Industry Group, have maintained their distinguished recognitions by IFLR1000 since 2019 – an incredible streak further highlighting their commitment to excellence.
Julius Cervantes and Luisa Fernandez-Guina make their debut in the Highly Regarded M&A category, marking a proud milestone for the firm. Their recognition reflects the growing strength of the team’s Corporate and M&A practice. Meanwhile, Ramon Miguel Bacani, head of the infrastructure subsector, continues to be acknowledged among the Philippines’ Notable M&A practitioners, backed by over 13 years of experience advising both foreign and local clients.
As a firm, Quisumbing Torres ranked Tier 2 in several practice areas, including Banking, Capital Markets – Debt, Capital Markets – Equity, M&A, Restructuring and Insolvency, Project Development, and Project Finance. The firm has been also ranked as a ‘Recommended’ firm in the 35th edition of the IFLR1000 2025.
The IFLR1000 rankings are renowned for their rigorous selection criteria, emphasizing transactional evidence, client feedback and peer feedback. They identify the world's foremost financial and corporate law firms through a methodological approach. The guide currently boasts over 750 practice area law firm rankings and more than 20,000 lawyer ratings spanning over 235 jurisdictions globally.
About QT's Corporate & Commercial/M&A Practice Group
As a member firm of Baker & McKenzie International, Quisumbing Torres' Corporate & Commercial/M&A practice combines deep local market knowledge and experience together with a regional and global perspective when advising clients in their transactions and projects and in doing business in the Philippines.
We help clients address challenges at all phases of a transaction from corporate setup, to forming joint ventures and partnership agreements, to merging with or acquiring private or public companies, to divesting non-core and other assets. As a full-service law firm, we also work closely with tax, competition, employment, intellectual property, data privacy, foreign investment, and commercial specialists to address all legal and regulatory implications of a transaction, minimize legal and business risks, and provide an end-to-end, high-value service.