MARIA ALLEN ARBIS

Maria Allen Arbis is an accomplished corporate counselor and senior executive. Allen joined the firm in 2017 as Special Counsel. Prior to that, she was President and General Manager of a mining and land development company supplying raw materials for local cement manufacturers.

As corporate legal counsel, Allen has a proven track-record in guiding decisions of the Board of Directors and senior management in compliance and governance, contract negotiations, corporate legal and regulatory risks, the implementation of restructuring, acquisitions, disposals, streamlining, financing and other strategic corporate business transactions including the protection of intellectual property rights.

Allen obtained her law degree from the Ateneo College of Law in 1988 and the University of the Philippines (Baguio) where she graduated with a Bachelors of Arts Degree in Political Science and Sociology.