Companies in the CG&R sector are facing significant shifts in their business strategies to cope with changing consumer behavior and evolving trends in customer engagement. There has been an increased focus on direct-to-consumer (D2C) and e-commerce, with companies investing in e-commerce platforms and digitalization, and diversifying their production locations in an effort to mitigate risk and maximize recovery. There is also a strong demand for transparency in labelling and production. These require products to be made using sustainable and ethical standards and to be labelled in a manner that allows the customer to know what the products contain.
We find ways to address a business's legal challenges brought about by market changes and regulatory developments. We understand the full spectrum of legal issues that a product undergoes in its life cycle — from conception through development, supply chain, distribution and beyond, including product recall, liability claims and after-sales obligations.
Our team has a proven track record in advising local and global clients, including many of the well-known food and beverage companies, apparel retailers or international fashion brands, helping them respond to any challenges they face at every stage of the business or product life cycle.
Our decades of "on-the-ground" CG&R experience, tailored client relationship approach, global reach and leading practices in areas relevant to companies active in the industry means we are well placed to support your growth and be your "one-stop shop."
We understand the issues specific to this fast-paced and constantly evolving industry and offer a holistic approach — bringing the knowledge, integrated experience and geographical scope needed to address the varying needs of global CG&R companies without compromising quality.
Subsectors
Consumer Goods
- Food & beverage
- Cosmetics & personal care
- Household products
- Consumer durables, white goods & appliances
- Tobacco
Luxury & Fashion
- Luxury goods
- Fashion & apparel
- Jewelry & accessories
Retail
- Brick and mortar establishments
- Online retailers
Hotels, Resorts & Tourism
- Hotels & resorts
- Restaurants & bars
- Tourism
We help clients with the following:
- New product development
- Supply chain efficiency
- Brand protection
- International trade, customs and compliance programs
- Distribution and commercial contracts
- E-commerce and IT solutions for digital sales
- Advertising, social media and data privacy
- Growth strategy and cross-border M&A
- Corporate governance
- Competition and antitrust
- Consumer protection
- Real estate portfolio management
- Employment
- Tax and transfer pricing
- Disputes, product regulatory, liability and recall
Testimonials
"Quisumbing Torres offer fantastic service, work well and show good collaboration between different departments." - Chambers Asia Pacific 2025
“They have a strong understanding of the industry and relevant government players and leveraged that understanding to provide solutions to the company.” - The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2024
Key Contacts
Bienvenido Marquez III |
Luisa Fernandez-Guina |
The speed and scale of digital transformation and the emphasis on sustainability are impacting several industries, including the EMI sector. Corporate clean energy drive is growing in spite of COVID-19 and other challenges, as more global companies are dedicated to green their entire electricity usage. New hybrid projects, including battery storage, have increased the demand for battery metals in the mining and metals industry. These current trends in the sector require addressing shifting regulatory landscapes; climate change and land use; corporate sustainability and ESG disclosures; sustainable finance; and investor focus and pressures, among others.
We bring our knowledge of critical issues, concerns and drivers in energy, mining and infrastructure matters, providing tailored, specialist advice that addresses the particular complexities of doing business in the industry.
Building on our wealth of experience in this sector, we understand the needs of both the private sector (lenders, financiers, constructors and operators) and public stakeholders (government and concessionaires) in large-scale projects. Our EMI team has been engaged as counsel in relation to projects undertaken by the government under public-private-partnership (PPP) programs and in transactions involving bids relating to the privatization of government assets and contracts. We assist clients in allocating and managing potential risks associated with EMI projects. We also advise on regulatory and contract management, project development, project financing, engagement with regulators and national/local stakeholders, dispute avoidance, investigations and litigation.
The team advises on all aspects of transactions and investments relating to these subsectors:
- Renewable Energy: Providing market-leading advice on all types of options along with cleantech, carbon and climate change transactions.
- Power & Utilities: Acting on all aspects of the power business from design/build/operate/finance to regulation, acquisition and disposition of power generation along with transmission, distribution, trading and marketing issues.
- Infrastructure: Leveraging our deep experience across all related areas to represent all players involved in major infrastructure, transportation and water projects.
- Oil & Gas, Petrochemicals: Advising clients on their oil and gas transactions throughout the entire industry value chain.
- Mining & Metals: Collaborating with clients in all phases of a mining project and providing clients with our full service capabilities along with peace of mind.
We help clients with the following:
Facilitating business growth
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Projects
- Finance and Capital Markets
Mitigating risk in an ever-changing climate
- Compliance and investigations
- Dispute Resolution
- Antitrust & Competition
Making your business grow
- Environmental
- IP & Technology
- Employment
Navigating the complexities of doing business globally
- Tax
- Global reorganizations
Testimonials
"Quisumbing Torres has strong knowledge of the regulatory framework in the Philippines and can provide tips and recommendations for navigating the challenges there." - Chambers Asia Pacific 2025
"Excellent client care. Innovative. Experienced. Able to call on network of international offices to service multi-jurisdictional disputes." - The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2024
Key Contact
Dennis Quintero |
The financial institutions landscape continues to undergo fundamental changes, triggered by the entry of new market players, adoption of digital services, availability of alternative modes of financing, and restrictions from new regulations. The desire to offer more individualized, technology-driven customer services along with new revenue streams is prompting institutions to consider acquiring fintech start-ups. Consolidation is also trending amidst the growing number of non-performing loans and the low rates of return on core lending.
We have nearly 60 years of on-the-ground experience representing financial sponsors, corporate entities and financial institutions, lenders and borrowers alike. Our multidisciplinary, integrated teams bring their wide-ranging legal, regulatory and tax experience to each matter, providing both strategic and day-to-day advice and addressing some of the most challenging transactions and business issues.
We deliver legal advice in a commercial context, having familiarity with a wide range of issues across several industries. Our aim is to help you simplify complexity in a given transaction and assist you in meeting your business objectives.
We understand the impact of regulatory changes on your operations and develop practical solutions while reinforcing compliance and accountability measures.
We help clients with the following:
- Regulatory compliance, investigations and litigation
- Outsourcing, privacy, data protection and cyber attacks
- Financial product issues and commercial activities
- Structured, leveraged and asset financing
- Insolvency and refinancing
- Debt and equity capital markets
- Investment funds and asset management
- JVs, restructurings and company integration
- Antitrust and competition
- Intellectual property
- Employment and benefits
- Tax advisory
- M&A and divestments
Testimonials
"The group also frequently works on a myriad of complex loans and credit facilities, as well as advising on acquisition and project financing and fielding particular expertise in the fintech sector." - The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2024
Key Contact
Alain Charles Veloso |
As trusted advisors to leading healthcare and life sciences companies, our lawyers combine deep sector knowledge, regulatory capability and commercial insight to help clients navigate the legal, business and operational challenges shaping the industry. We advise pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device, medtech, digital health, healthcare services, diagnostics and consumer health companies, delivering practical solutions that are aligned with market developments and commercial objectives.
Industry knowledge. Commercially focused advice.
Our team brings together industry experience and leading practice area capability to provide integrated legal and regulatory advice tailored to the healthcare and life sciences sector. We work closely with clients across the product and business lifecycle, from research and clinical development to manufacturing, commercialization, distribution and business expansion. Through our strong relationships with key government agencies and our deep understanding of the Philippine regulatory environment, we help clients anticipate change, manage risk and identify growth opportunities. As a member firm of Baker McKenzie, we work closely with regional and global Healthcare & Life Sciences teams to support clients on both domestic and cross-border matters.
We help clients with the following:
- Foreign direct investments, joint ventures, M&A and strategic transactions
- Contract manufacturing, distribution, licensing and commercial arrangements
- FDA regulatory and pharmaceutical laws and regulations
- Clinical trials and research activities
- Product registration for pharmaceuticals, medical devices and healthcare products
- Importation, exportation, labelling, marketing and commercialization
- Establishment of research, manufacturing and healthcare facilities
- Product liability, recalls and disputes
- Anti-counterfeiting, patent, trademark and IP protection
- Compliance, investigations, competition, data privacy and cybersecurity matters
- Tax, customs, supply chain and operational advisory
- Interactions with healthcare professionals, government agencies and patient groups
Our healthcare and life sciences team works closely with lawyers across Corporate and Transactional, Intellectual Property, Data and Technology, Tax, Employment, Competition, Compliance and Dispute Resolution practices to provide seamless advice on transactions, regulatory matters, investigations, disputes and other business-critical issues affecting the sector.
Testimonials
"They are very commercially aware, always have a solution and are always able to respond." - Chambers Asia Pacific 2025
"International networking and collaboration prove to be QT's strong points and global clients can benefit from the broad perspective and ability to advise on cross-jurisdictional matters." - The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2024
Key Contact
Maria Christina Macasaet-Acaban |
Digitalization/Industry 4.0, supply chain rationalization and carve-outs are shaping the agendas of industrials, manufacturing & transportation (IMT) sectors worldwide. We are at the forefront of these key issues for our IMT clients and can help them navigate these risks by acting as a collaborative business partner.
As with technological advancements, these issues pose certain challenges in data security, employment retention and import and export compliances, prompting our clients to seek advice, guidance and structure.
We work with many of the world's leading IMT clients as they embrace the changes in their sector, whether through refocusing their portfolios or expanding into new markets.
With a wealth of experience across all relevant areas of law and a thorough understanding of strategic and operational business challenges, our IMT lawyers help leading organizations implement their strategy by developing and delivering commercially effective and innovative solutions.
Subsectors
- Aerospace & Defense
- Automotive & Future Mobility
- Aviation
- Chemicals & Plastics
- Construction & Building Products
- Food & Agribusiness
- Industrial Manufacturing & Conglomerates
- Transportation & Logistics
We help clients with the following:
- Antitrust and Competition
- Compliance
- Corporate, Mergers and Acquisitions
- Dispute Resolution
- Global Separation
- Employment
- Infrastructure Building, Engineering and Construction
- International Commercial Agreements
- Intellectual Property, Data and Technology
- Joint Venture
- Project Finance
- Regulatory Law
- Restructuring and Insolvency
- Tax
Testimonials
"Quisumbing Torres is very knowledgeable across many areas. They provide a good breadth of service and legal knowledge." - Chambers Asia Pacific 2025
Key Contact
Kristine Anne Mercado-Tamayo |
As the world becomes increasingly interconnected, a new wave of smart technologies is changing how we approach everyday activities — from finance, transportation and healthcare to purchasing goods and communicating, to name a few. Companies face a myriad of complexities in various stages of change and an increasing pressure towards sustainability at every facet of their operations. Organizations must react to the challenges that these opportunities bring in order to manage risks in a changing regulatory and compliance environment.
Leveraging our deep industry knowledge and broad experience, we help businesses understand the transformation life cycle and guide clients every step of the way. We help forward-thinking companies remain progressive and profitable in a quickly evolving environment of technological advances, and we guide them in finding strategic opportunities within the marketplace.
We offer sophisticated legal advice and pragmatic solutions on a wide range of TMT issues:
- Digital transformation and connectivity: 5G | Data Centers | AI/ML | Antitrust for Tech Clients | Connected Cars and Autonomous Vehicles | Fintech | Drones | Tech M&A
- Digital content: Platform/Content | Interactive Entertainment | Content Production
- Sustainability of business models: Future of Work | Sustainability
- Tax for techs
- Business future proofing: Technology Transactions
We help clients with the following:
- Digital and Social Media
- E-commerce
- Fintech
- Global Technology Agreements – Localization, Update and Streamlining
- Mobile Network Virtual Operator/Enabler
- Outsourcing
- Privacy and Data Protection
- Software as a Service /Cloud Computing
- Software Licensing and Open Source Code
- Technology Disputes
- Technology Procurement and Major IT Transactions
- Telecommunications
Testimonials
"Quisumbing Torres is able to predict what a regulator might do, which is a great value-added, on top of having deep national and multinational expertise." - Chambers Asia Pacific 2025
"The team stands out for their flexibility, agility and extensive expertise. They possess a strong understanding of the technology industry." - The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2024
Key Contacts
Gil Roberto Zerrudo |
Divina Ilas-Panganiban |