De Dios, Jose Luis G.

Jose Luis G. De Dios, a partner, works with the Corporate department. His practice focuses on corporate law and securities.

Luigi advises Philippine and foreign clients on initial public offerings, equity issues, private placements of debt securities, and other security issues. His work includes setting up various corporate entities, corporate rehabilitation cases, estate planning, extra-judicial settlement of estates, and various commercial transactions.

Luigi has extensive experience dealing with corporate and securities laws. He has dealt with transactions advice, licensing matters, and dealings with capital markets. He has also advised Philippine and foreign clients on various regulatory and transactional matters including international joint ventures and international and domestic initial public offerings of securities.

Luigi was a special executive assistant of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairperson Rosario N. Lopez. He was responsible for drafting the SEC Framework for the Unification of the Stock Exchanges and Formation of The Philippine Stock Exchange. He was also designated as the SEC representative to the Asian Development Bank-USAID Philippine Capital Market Development Program.

Luigi was the Chairman of the Board of Canvassers of the Commission on Elections – Overseas Absentee Voting in Seoul, South Korea for the 2004 Philippine National Elections. He was also a professor at the Ateneo de Manila University School of Law before joining Romulo.

Luigi received his bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of the Philippines in 1985 and received his bachelor of laws degree from the Ateneo de Manila University in 1989. He received his master of laws degree under the Securities and Financial Regulation Program from the Georgetown University Law Center in 1996. He was admitted to the Philippine bar in 1990 and joined the firm in 1992.