Mr. Exiomo is the firm’s founder and managing partner. He has been practicing law since his admission to the bar in 1999, and leads the firm’s corporate and special projects. He was also admitted to the New York State bar in 2009. His experience comprises project development and financing, foreign direct investments, corporate structuring, infrastructure, privatization, construction, power, environment and natural resources, capital repatriation, contractual exits, competition, securities and property, expatriate immigration compliance and documentation, and land, succession and estate law. Mr. Exiomo was a senior partner at one of Manila’s biggest law firms where he led its admission into leading international law firm associations. He was the Philippine general counsel of a US power conglomerate, where he led post-bid award and compliance, assisted heavily in the rehabilitation of its 600MW Masinloc Plant which won the Edison Award, and helped secure ground-breaking power supply agreements with Meralco and project re-financing. He was the head counsel of a trailblazing Filipino solar power company which helped break paths and obstacles in renewable energy contracts, RE policy and market liberalization strategy, and helped create a new regime for distributed generation. Mr. Exiomo was a senior associate and Registered Foreign Lawyer at Baker & McKenzie in Singapore in 2007-2008, and at SyCip Salazar Hernandez and Gatmaitan from 2004 to 2007. He was a senior corporate counsel and presidential adviser at the National Power Corporation. He was an associate of the famed election lawyer Sixto Brillantes (later Commission on Elections chairman) and renowned constitutionalist, Antonio Nachura (later Supreme Court Justice).
Mr. Exiomo is a member of the faculties of the De La Salle University Tañada-Diokno College of Law, the Arellano University School of Law, and the Lyceum of the Philippines University School of Law. He teaches Property, Wills and Succession, Corporations and Securities, Public International Law, Real Estate Transactions and Environment and Natural Resources Law. In the past, he has also taught law at the San Beda University College of Law, University of Sto. Tomas Faculty of Civil Law, and the Saint Louis University School of Law, beginning in 2001.
Education & Training
Columbia University (Master of Laws, 2004), Fulbright Scholar; Fellow of the Public Interest Law Foundation
San Beda College, (JD, 1998, Associate Editor, San Beda Law Journal, academic scholar)
Saint Louis University (AB Pol. Sc., cum laude, class salutatorian, editor, White and Blue)
Georgetown University Law Center (2003, Certificate in American Law and Education), Fulbright Scholar
National University of Singapore (2010, Corporate Executive Course for Emerging Leaders)
Languages
English, Pangasinan, Tagalog, Spanish, Ilokano