Tan, Juan Ricardo B.

Rico Tan is a partner who is working with the Corporate Banking & Finance department. His practice focuses on banking and finance, corporate law, and securities.

Rico is a regular adviser of various multilateral financial institutions, offshore banking units, and most foreign banks in the Philippines. Mr. Tan has extensive debt capital market experience, having been recognized as a preferred Philippine counsel to the managers and dealers in all the recent global bond issuances in foreign currency as well as global Peso notes, bond exchanges, and tender offers by the Republic of the Philippines and other government-owned and -controlled corporations.  He works closely with the Philippine government through the Department of Finance, Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas, Securities and Exchange Commission, and Insurance Commission.

Rico also has significant experience in structuring and offering bank regulatory capital instruments and is a key advisor to arrangers and issuer-banks in connection with Basel II- and Basel III-compliant regulatory capital offerings.

Rico participated in the capital market development project on the immobilization of trading of equity securities, establishment of the clearing corporation and guarantee fund for the trading of equity securities, and organization of the fixed-income exchange and the depository and trust company in the country. Mr. Tan is the preferred counsel of government financial institutions for their monetization programs in connection with the Internal Revenue Allotments of local government units, as well as for the allocation of tobacco excise taxes, among others.

Rico received his bachelor of science degree in 1988 from the Ateneo de Manila University, and his juris doctor degree in 1992 from the Ateneo School of Law with a Silver Medal for academic excellence. He was admitted to the Philippine bar in 1993 and joined the firm in 1994.