Senior Partner and Head of Tax Practice Group

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Practice Areas

• Tax Law
• Corporate Law
• Mining Law

Admission to the Bar

• Admitted, 1989

Education

• Bachelor of Laws – Ateneo de Manila University

Professional Activities and Memberships

• Ateneo Law School (LLB)
• Member, Integrated Bar of the Philippines
• Member, Tax Management Association of the Philippines
• Member, Philippine Institute of Certified Public Accountants
• Professorial Lecturer (Tax), Philippine Judicial Academy of the Philippines.

Mr. Hidalgo is a CPA – Lawyer and the Head of the Law Firm’s Tax Practice Group. The Tax team is composed of lawyers focused in handling tax disputes and other tax matters related to start-up business operations, corporate structures, fiscal incentive applications, customs and tax investigations and other government compliance requirements. He also heads the Law Firm’s Mining Practice Group and acts as Corporate Secretary and Board of Director of several companies in the Philippines.

Mr. Hidalgo joined the Law Firm in 1989 handling tax, corporate and related labor matters. Upon his promotion to the Partnership, he concentrated in handling tax litigation and other related tax issues before the Bureau of Internal Revenue, Bureau of Customs, Court of Tax Appeals and the Supreme Court.

Mr. Hidalgo earned his Bachelor of Science Major in Accounting at San Beda College in 1983 and his law degree at the Ateneo Law School in 1988. As a regular member of the Tax Department of the Philippine Judicial Academy where he is also a Professorial Lecturer, Mr. Hidalgo participates, among others, in the training and evaluation of applicants to the Judiciary. He has also authored a number of Tax Articles published in International Journals and has been cited among the recommended Tax Practitioners in the Philippines.