Representative Cases / Matters under A Acosta & Associates
Party Nominated Arbitrator, PDRCI case involving a software installation for a major Philippine private university
Party Nominated Arbitrator, Regional Trial Court Referred Arbitration involving licensing of a radio station
Cebu Counsel for the largest Filipino fastfood company (Jollibee) in its criminal cases involving pilferage of commissary materials by contractors and employees, and tort cases involving customer complaints. Handles notarization of Visayas and Mindanao contracts.
Counsel for International Pharmaceuticals, Inc. handling various criminal, labor and civil cases, and judicial titling of lands, corporate secretarial and housekeeping work.
Cebu Counsel for Uber Systems, Inc. handling all Cebu-based Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board applications for Uber partners.
Counsel for Frasec Ventures Corporation, a Cebu-based mining and real estate development company
Counsel for CBM (formerly Christian Blind Mission), an international Christian development organisation, committed to improving the quality of life of people with disabilities in the poorest communities of the world, in its cases against partners in Cebu and Iloilo with respect to the use of Typhoon Yolanda Funds.
Co-counsel for Glogal Gateway Development Corporation in its arbitration at the Singapore International Arbitration Centre in Singapore involving a Fund against its contractor for a major real estate development in the Philippines (settled 2015)
Counsel for a mining company in an intra-corporate dispute pending in Davao Regional Trial Court
Assisting a major law firm based in Taguig in its patent cancellation case involving computerized casino systems at the Intellectual Property Office.
Defense counsel for various drug cases, support, annulment and adoption cases, civil, criminal and labor cases
Representative Cases / Matters as former lawyer of Manila based firms
Assisted in ICC Hong Kong arbitrations for a solar energy manufacturing company, and served as counsel in Construction Industry Arbitration Commission arbitrations for a real estate company based in Cebu, Philippines, a manufacturing plant based in Batangas, Philippines, and assisted a CIAC arbitration involving a Japanese airport contractor against the Department of Transportation and Communications.
Part of a team of private prosecutors who successfully convicted a couple in La Union engaged in “crush videos” depicting animals being videotaped while being killed by young girls. The couple was also convicted for child abuse.
Involved in the case of a US Marine enlisted personnel who was charged with rape in Subic. The rape charge against the officer was subsequently dismissed by the Court of Appeals.
Assisted in a dispute involving the interpretation of the Provincial Tax Code of Cebu;
Collaborating counsel for a mining company against an open-pit mining ban ordinance in Zamboanga del Norte which resulted in an injunction being issued against the Local Government of Zamboanga del Norte.
Led in the arrest of a foreign vessel in Philippine waters for unpaid ship mortgages.
Advised companies on the Financial Rehabilitation and Insolvency Act, and dealt with negotiations for and/or termination of various distributorship agreements.