Hernandez Cueva, Ma. Elena P.

Ma. Elena P. Hernandez-Cueva is a partner affiliated with the Corporate department. Her practice focuses on corporate law and banking.

 

Malen is an expert in corporate and foreign investment, banking, real estate, and litigation. Her experience in corporate and foreign investment includes general corporate counseling and assistance in the different phases of foreign investment and doing business in the Philippines from conception, formation, operations, winding-up, dissolution, and liquidation. She also renders advice and assistance with due diligence requirements for mergers and acquisitions, contract-drafting, negotiations, and other transactions.

 

Malen provides legal advice and counseling on matters such as banking laws, rules, and regulations, trusts and trust products, Anti-Money Laundering Act, and Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas Regulations.

 

Malen has previous experience in agrarian land reform and expropriation matters including representation before the Department of Agrarian Land Reform. In litigation, she possesses appellate practice consisting of legal advice and assistance to the firm’s litigation group in developing case theories and strategies and in drafting court pleadings for appellate and original cases before such courts.

 

Malen previously worked in the Supreme Court of the Philippines as Legal Attorney at the office of Justice Hugo E. Gutierrez. She was also employed as a consultant at the Legal Affairs Department of the Office of the President of the Philippines and the Office of the Government Corporate Counsel.

 

Malen received her bachelor’s degree in Philosophy from the Ateneo de Manila University in 1979 and her bachelor of laws degree from the same university in 1983. She was admitted to the Philippine bar in 1984 and joined the firm in 1988.

Manila Office
Sec. DID: +63 2 8555-9577
Fax: +63 2 8810-3110
Primary Email: Ma_Elena.Cueva@Romulo.com

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