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Nellaine Anabelle Soliman
Nellaine’s practice involves taxation, mergers & acquisitions, competition law, general corporate and commercial law, and data privacy.
She has handled business formation and establishment, assisting in registration, licensing requirements, and compliance of multinational companies with government agencies, such as the Securities and Exchange Commission, Bureau of Internal Revenue, and Philippine Economic Zone Authority.
She is highly experienced in tax litigations and assessments of companies in various industries, such as retail, banking, travel, insurance, and investment. She has also handled tax rulings and treaty reliefs applications, estate settlement, tax amnesty availment, and cases involving claims for refund of different tax types.
Nellaine has handled mergers & acquisition projects involving hotels, information technology, land development, banks, and retail companies. She has also advised and assisted companies in their investment structures, acquisition plans. She has counseled both domestic and international companies in various legal matters including labor, data privacy, and immigration matters. For land acquisition, Nellaine has extensively assisted a client engaged in port operations for the reclassification of the land and the eventual transfer of the ownership thereof under the name of the buyer. Nellaine is a certified Data Privacy Officer who has experience in privacy impact assessment and data privacy risk management.
Prior to founding GVES Law, she was a Junior Partner of Zambrano Gruba Caganda & Advincula Law Offices, which is a Legal 500 law firm in Makati City Nellaine graduated with a Juris Doctor degree from the Ateneo De Manila University School of Law in 2014 and was admitted to the Philippine Bar in 2015. Atty. Soliman is a licensed Certified Public Accountant and has previously worked as a financial audit associate in a top auditing firm in the Philippines.