Atty. Connie Chu
Associate | Connie.Chu@Romulo.com

Ms. Chu has extensive experience in international securities offerings, foreign investment, corporate finance, and M&A transactions in a wide range of industries including banks, telecommunications, energy, infrastructure, power generation, transportation, food & beverage, real estate, information technology and business process outsourcing. Her practice likewise includes advising multinational clients on a wide range of corporate, insurance, tax and licensing matters. 

She was admitted to the Philippine Bar in 2003 (ranked 2nd out of 4,659 examinees). 

Practice
Ms. Chu has represented both issuers and underwriters in a variety of international and domestic capital market transactions where she obtained various regulatory approvals, performed due diligence, negotiated and drafted domestic transaction documents. She has structured and implemented multi-million dollar investments by top multinationals in highly regulated industries and advised on aircraft purchase financing, derivative transactions, sale of asset-backed securities, and purchase of distressed debt portfolios. In addition to transactional advice, she has also represented clients in proceedings with the Philippine Central Bank, Securities & Exchange Commission, Department of Trade & Industry, Bureau of Customs, and Court of Tax Appeals. Transactions include the first Philippine perpetual note issuance, the global restructuring of an LPG business, a prominent land reclamation and port development project, the US$535 million equity offering of a real estate company, and a complex bank acquisition by a blue chip U.S. conglomerate requiring analysis of banking regulations, foreign investment rules, insurance laws, land ownership restrictions, and tax statutes.

Professional Activities
Ms. Chu acted as a Philippine resource person to the World Bank Corporate Governance Project and co-authored the Philippine Chapter of The Asia Pacific Restructuring and Insolvency Guide 2003/2004, published by Globe White Page in association with PricewaterhouseCoopers and Morgan Stanley.
She is a lecturer in Legal Research and Legal Writing at the Ateneo de Manila School of Law. She also taught Corporate Governance at the Far Eastern University Institute of Law, and Credit Transactions at the Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila.

Education
Ms. Chu obtained her Bachelor of Arts Degree, magna cum laude, from the University of San Carlos and was named Most Outstanding Political Science Major. She graduated Class Salutatorian with honors from the Ateneo de Manila University where she received her Juris Doctor degree and was awarded the Silver Medal for Academic Excellence. She served as Managing Editor of the Ateneo Law Journal and was a member of the Ateneo team to the Philip C. Jessup International Moot Court Competition.

She is currently on leave as she pursues her LL.M. studies at the New York University School of Law where she has been admitted as an Arthur T. Vanderbilt scholar. Her research interests focus on the interrelations of law & business, corporate governance, and emerging markets regulatory reform.