Agustin R. Montilla, IV (Senior Partner), is a member of the Executive Board and a member of the Securities department. His practice focuses on securities, and corporate law.
Agustin helps solve problems for domestic and foreign clients and corporations. His experience is built on international securities offerings, restructuring, takeovers, take-privates, and cross-border acquisitions. He also serves as an advisor to various charitable and non-profit organizations devoted to education and the care of those affected by cancer.
Agustin was involved in the groundbreaking Pilipino Telephone Corporation debt restructuring, which remains to be the largest in the Philippines to have ever been successfully concluded on a consensual basis. He has represented the then NASDAQ-listed eTelecare Global Solutions, Inc. in an unprecedented auction requiring concurrent tender offers in the Philippines and the United States which necessitated compliance with incongruent laws and regulations.
Agustin has been named as a leading lawyer in Chambers Asia Pacific, AsiaLaw Profiles, and Asia Pacific Legal 500.
Agustin received his bachelor’s degree from the Ateneo de Manila University in 1991 and his juris doctor degree from the same university in 1995, with honors. He received his master of laws degree from Columbia University in 2002. He joined the firm in 1996.
Manila Office
DID 1: +63 2 8555-9534
Sec. DID: +63 2 8555-9586
Fax: +63 2 8810-3110
Primary Email: Agustin.Montilla@Romulo.com
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