The\npopulation of the Philippines now exceeds 100 million, a large percentage of\nwhich is of productive working age. As such, it is expected to continue to\nachieve high economic growth. Also, because English is the official language of\nthe Philippines, there are fewer barriers to communication, and labor is\nrelatively cheap. For these reasons, in the recent trend known as the \u201cChina Plus\nOne\u201d strategy, many Japanese companies have moved into the Philippines market\nor invested there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Filipino\nlaw has been influenced by U.S. law in many ways, but caution is required, as\nit does have its own unique laws and regulations. Further, new legislation,\nsuch as competition law and privacy law, has been introduced in recent years,\nso not only companies newly moving into the Philippines, but also companies\nthat already have a presence there may need to respond to these new laws.\nKitahama Partners has several attorneys with experience working in local law\nfirms in the Philippines, and we have established networks with a number of\nlocal law firms. We choose the most appropriate local law firm for the matter\nwe are handling and partner with that firm to provide support to Japanese\ncompanies moving into the Philippines in areas such as M&A, joint ventures,\nlitigation, commercial agreements, and various types of legal research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":0,"parent":1432,"menu_order":143,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"practice-category":[7],"class_list":["post-1439","practice","type-practice","status-publish","hentry","practice-category-region"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n