VINCENT JOSEPH CESISTA

Managing Partner

Real Estate Development, Litigation and Arbitration, and Energy

Atty. Cesista's areas of practice include real estate law, energy law, commercial law, arbitration and litigation. He worked as a Senior Associate at Romulo Mabanta Buenaventura Sayoc & delos Angeles Law Offices, a prominent Makati-based law firm, from 2017 to January 2023. He founded Cesista Law on March 1, 2023. 

Atty. Cesista has substantial experience in incorporating various realty corporations and acquiring licenses for the sale of condominium and subdivision units. His day-to-day practice includes land and other complex realty due diligence and transactions. He has expertise in acquiring and overseeing the acquisition of pre-requisite licenses for condominium and subdivision licenses. 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.

Atty. Cesista has extensive experience in litigation. He has represented clients in first-level courts until the Supreme Court. He was part of a team that represented a major drug distribution companies in one of the most high-profile cases in the country concerning issues with a certain vaccine. Atty. Cesista has assisted 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. 

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. He has likewise served as Corporate Secretary / Assistant Corporate Secretary of several corporations.

Atty. Cesista was a professor of law at USC Law, Lyceum Law, and FEU Law. He currently teaches at MAC Law.

As a student, Atty. Cesista has represented the Philippines in law competitions in the United States for Philip C. Jessup Competition (2015, 2016), the United Kingdom (2017) and China (2016) for Monroe Price Competition, and Switzerland for Nelson Mandela Competition as a coach (2018). Atty. Cesista has won ANC Square Off twice. ANC Square Off is a televised law national debate competition. In both instances, Atty. Cesista, then a student, was declared the best speaker in both the championship rounds.   

Education: UP (2012), USC Law (2017).