VINCENT JOSEPH CESISTA

Atty. Cesista has substantial experience in incorporating various realty corporations and acquiring licenses for the sale of condominium and subdivision units. Moreover, his day-to-day practice includes land and other realty due diligence and transactions. For the year 2024, Atty. Cesista has led his team in successfully acquiring a license to sell from the Department of Human Settlements and Urban Development for the first ever condominium project in Palawan (outside of Puerto Princesa City). He has particular expertise in acquiring or overseeing the acquisition of pre-requisite licenses for condominium and subdivision licenses including the ones issued by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources, Department of Agrarian Reform, Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines, and the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples, among others. Atty. Cesista regularly oversees the legal due diligence of transactions involving acquisitions or transfers of real properties in and out of Metro Manila. Atty. Cesista and his team has successfully completed the transfer of several properties by way of sale, donation, and extrajudicial settlement of estate.

Atty. Cesista is the legal counsel of one of the energy distribution companies in the country. He has assisted in the application of several Power Supply Agreements with the Energy Regulatory Commission and has even appeared before a Congressional Hearing pertaining to issues on Energy Law. Atty. Cesista has likewise represented a distribution utility company in administrative proceedings motu proprio initiated by the Commission. He has experience representing officers of a distribution utility company in criminal cases filed by energy consumers in relation to the DU’s functions.

Prior to founding the Firm, Atty. Cesista had extensive experience in corporate litigation. He is one of the lawyers that represented a major drug distribution companies in one of the most high-profile cases in the country concerning issues with a vaccine. Atty. Cesista has represented various clients in arbitration proceedings before the Philippine Dispute Resolution Center, Inc. and the Construction Industry Arbitration Commission. Atty. Cesista is a member of the Young Singapore International Arbitration Centre and the Young International Council for Commercial Arbitration. He has also assisted in the due diligence and acquisition of several communication towers in one of the biggest transactions in the Philippine telecommunications industry. He has likewise served as Corporate Secretary / Assistant Corporate Secretary of several Philippine Corporations.