Your best legal solution.

We challenge ourselves to come up with the most effective, practical, and immediate solution for your legal concern. We help you avoid disputes, anticipate problems and employ preemptive actions.

In litigation, we are fierce in our advocacy even if we work quietly and in an ethical manner. Our founding partner, Mr. Michael Ancheta, is a highly coveted litigator. He has advised and represented government and business leaders, members of the judiciary and the legal profession, and entertainment celebrities.

In business, we provide highly personalized services on a full range of corporate concerns from day-to-day operations to major business decisions. Most of us have commercial backgrounds and occupied management positions in different industries. We immerse ourselves in the operations of our client with the objective of truly understanding its organizational and business dynamics. We are also skillful negotiators who make transactions happen.

Our Practice Areas

  • Administrative Investigations of Employee Misconduct
  • Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice
  • Adoption & Support
  • Advertising, Media & Entertainment 
  • Agricultural Law & Agrarian Reform
  • Annulment, Nullity of Marriage, & Legal Separation
  • Anti-Graft Cases
  • Appeals
  • Arbitration
  • Aviation & Maritime Law
  • Banking Litigation
  • Bankruptcy, Insolvency, Liquidation & Rehabilitation
  • Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical & Life Sciences
  • Business Process Outsourcing (BPO)
  • Business Registration & Post-Registration Requirements
  • Civil Cases
  • Class Action Litigation
  • Competition Law Practice
  • Condominium Projects & Associations
  • Construction & Infrastructure
  • Consumer Protection
  • Contract & Document Review
  • Corporate Governance & Regulation
  • Corporate Housekeeping
  • Corporate & Special Projects
  • Corporate Rehabilitation
  • Corporate Services
  • Corporate Taxation
  • Court of Appeals Proceedings
  • Court of Tax Appeals Proceedings
  • CPC, CPCN & Franchise
  • Criminal Law
  • DARAB Proceedings
  • Data Privacy
  • Debt Finance
  • Debt Restructuring & Corporate Reorganization
  • Department of Justice Proceedings
  • Discovery Strategies
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We take pride in having handled hundreds of litigation cases all over the Philippines,
and being part of many commercial transactions across the country and the world.  

YOUR LEGAL TEAM

Michael Ancheta

managing partner

mike.ancheta@ancheta.com.ph

Mr. Ancheta has been involved in landmark cases but keeps a low profile. He believes that disputes and transactions are handled more effectively if done quietly. He advocates strict ethical legal practice. Top government and business leaders, members of the judiciary and the legal profession, and entertainment celebrities have sought his advice and representation. His clients are of various nationalities. His expertise in several major practice areas helps his team come up with legal solutions to seemingly inextricable situations.

He teaches property law, criminal law, and civil law subjects. Before becoming a lawyer, he was part of the management of a major logistics and transportation company. He is a graduate of Economics and Juris Doctor (second honors) from the Ateneo de Manila University.

Gary Jimenez

Senior partner

gary.jimenez@ancheta.com.ph

Mr. Jimenez has an extensive experience in commercial transactions, litigation, and intellectual property protection and enforcement, as well as in legislative advocacy having served in different capacities in the local government and in the Philippine Senate. He was part of the management of the country's airport authority and of a successful real estate company that developed several residential subdivisions.  

He took up Business Law from the Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, USA. He is a graduate of Legal Management and Juris Doctor (second honors) from the Ateneo de Manila University.

Lutgardo Inocencio

Senior partner

Mr. Inocencio served as the vice-president for legal of a major insurance company for three decades until his retirement. He also served as legal counsel to mining companies and the president of a school foundation. He has actively handled complex litigation cases and difficult insurance claims. 

He obtained his undergraduate degree from the University of the Philippines and his law degree from Manuel L. Quezon University.

John Paolo Roberto Calleja

Senior partner

taikee.calleja@ancheta.com.ph

Mr. Calleja has been immersed in corporate and commercial law practice for decades having served as the president, CEO, and chairman of a conglomerate. 

He went to Cornell University in New York for Fellowship Programme on Science Communication. He also attended the MBA Middle Manager Program of the Ateneo Graduate School of Business. He is a graduate of Sociology from the University of the Philippines and Juris Doctor from the Ateneo de Manila University.

Karissa Marie Rivera-Ramos

senior associate

cara.ramos@ancheta.com.ph

Ms. Rivera-Ramos actively handles property and construction disputes, estate settlement, and family-related proceedings.She also has a strong practice in energy, commercial transactions, and civil and criminal cases. She is in-charge of the Firm’s corporate housekeeping and secretarial services. 

She is a member of the International Bar Association and its Committee on Aviation with global headquarters in London, England. She was a Philippine delegate to the International Arbitration and Artificial Intelligence conference held in Singapore in 2024. She is a graduate of Business Management and Juris Doctor from San Beda College Alabang.

Lowie Santiaguel

senior ASSOCIATE

lowie.santiaguel@ancheta.com.ph

Mr. Santiaguel has extensive experience in local, national, and international tax issues, government procurement projects, water and environment-related matters, fintech, and data privacy. He also has strong practice in civil and criminal cases, human resources, and intellectual property protection and enforcement. 

He is a graduate of Computer Science with specialization in Software Technology from the De La Salle University Manila and Juris Doctor from San Beda College Alabang.

Ross Anne Patiño

JUNIOR ASSOCIATE

ross.patino@ancheta.com.ph

Ms. Patiño has a considerable practice in energy and water, commercial and corporate, criminal and civil, intellectual property, and labor. She has a strong background in commercial negotiations, quality assurance, supplier relationship management, labor regulations, corporate compliance, and contract law, having extensive work in these areas in a multinational corporation. 

She is a graduate of Business Administration from the Polytechnic University of the Philippines (Taguig campus) and Juris Doctor from the Arellano University School of Law.

Jezzamine Mari

JUNIOR ASSOCIATE

jezza.mari@ancheta.com.ph

Ms. Mari is extensively involved in commercial transactions, regulatory compliances,  and corporate housekeeping. She also actively assists in civil, criminal, admin, and labor cases. She has solid experience in project management and controls, stakeholder management, and organizational capabilities and processes, having worked in the telecommunications, technology, and banking sectors.

She has a degree in Information Technology (cum laude) from Silliman University and a master’s degree in Technology Management from the University of the Philippines. She completed her Juris Doctor from the Philippine Law School.

Contact us

Location

8th Floor, Page 1 Building
1215 Acacia Avenue, Madrigal Business Park
Ayala Alabang 1780
Muntinlupa City, Metro Manila, Philippines

Email Address

info@ancheta.com.ph

Contact numbers

+632 8835 7412
+63 917 639 1111

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