Valdemoro Cua, Wilma M.

Wilma M. Valdemoro Cua (Senior Partner), is member of the Executive Board and head of the Corporate department. Her practice focuses on corporate law and intellectual property.

Wilma specializes in providing foreign investors, particularly multinational corporations, providing them with a broad range of services in all phases of doing business in the Philippines, may it be in the applicable laws on the various business forms and alternative structures open to investors, in fiscal and non-fiscal incentives, or in the legal procedures and documentations for conducting business.

Wilma also assists local and international clients in the establishment of corporations, branch offices, partnerships, regional headquarters, regional operating headquarters, and other business entities such as foundations, proprietary membership clubs, and non-stock corporations. She has extensive practice in joint venture agreements, consultancy agreements, and international licensing and technology transfer agreements.

Wilma counsels clients in regulatory and transactional matters. She advises ongoing operations of companies engaged in a wide range of activities, such as forestry and mining, car assembly and manufacturing, domestic and international freight forwarding, semiconductors, and real estate development. She has represented both Philippine and foreign clients in dealings before the Securities and Exchange Commission, Board of Investments, Philippine Economic Zone Authority, and other government regulatory agencies.

Wilma  received her bachelor’s degree in Political Science, Magna Cum Laude from the University of Santo Tomas in 1969 and her  bachelor of laws degree, from the University of the Philippines in 1973 . She was admitted to the Philippine Bar in 1974 and the New York State Bar in 1990. She joined the firm in 1974.