Melchor Jaemond Aranas
Of Counsel
Melchor Jaemond Aranas is the firm’s managing partner and corporate legal
consultant. He specializes in the field of business and corporate law such
as, but not limited to, incorporations, licensing of foreign corporations
and multinational companies, mergers and acquisitions, applications for
increase and decrease of authorized capital and other SEC applications and
issues.
Melchor was a senior securities lawyer at the Securities and Exchange
Commission for more than half a decade. As such, he has extensive experience
in overseeing whether corporations are compliant with the provisions of the
Corporation Code and SEC rules and regulations. He handled and reviewed
applications for incorporations, amendments, increase or decrease in
authorized capital stock, and mergers. He also became part of and helped
pioneered the Licensing Unit - a team dedicated in processing secondary
licenses of foreign corporations, multinational companies, capital market
participants, and financial institutions. In addition, he acted as hearing
officer to a wide variety of SEC administrative cases.
Melchor is also a dual-licensed lawyer. He was admitted to practice law in
the State of New York in 2015, and a member of the New York State Bar
Association.
Lastly, Melchor is a member of the academe and a law professor at Pamantasan
ng Lungsod ng Maynila (“University of the City of Manila”) - recognized as
one of the top law schools in the country. He teaches business law,
particularly Corporate Law and the Law on Partnerships, Agency and Trusts,
in PLM College of Law.
Languages:
English
Filipino
Tagalog
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