Salvador Llanillo & Mijares (SLM), formerly known as Salvador and Associates, is a dynamic business law firm established in 2003 by experts in taxation and commercial law. It presently has a complement of 30 lawyers and legal assistants and is recognized as one of the leading firms engaged in tax practice in the Philippines. The International Tax Review (ITR) has granted it the status of a “Recommended Firm” for 2015. SLM has also been recognized as one of the Leading Philippine Tax Firms by ITR, Chambers and Partners, and Asian Counsel. As part of TAXAND, a global organization of over 2,000 leading tax advisors, SLM provides its clients with access to high quality, integrated, and independent tax advice in and across nearly 50 countries. As an independent provider, TAXAND allows its advisors leeway in providing quality tax advice to its clients without independence issues. A significant part of SLM’s legal services involve and focus on tax practice, which includes: (1) tax advisory, compliance, planning and structuring services; and (2) tax advocacy and litigation services (e.g., handling tax audit and investigations and claims for refund of overpaid national and local taxes). These services are rendered to a diverse clientele, both domestic and foreign multinational corporations and the Top 500 taxpayers in the Philippines. SLM also has a vast non-tax corporate law practice comprising company formation, corporate regulatory compliance, and secretarial services, as well as special projects, such as mergers and acquisitions, corporate reorganizations, initial public offerings, structuring and financing of investments, and corporate insolvency and liquidation. Aside from its tax and corporate law practice, SLM offers legal assistance in labor and employment and related immigration services. This year, SLM expanded its range of competencies to include intellectual property law (including trademark, patent and copyright registration, licensing and franchising, technology transfer) and private data protection, litigation, and transfer pricing. Through its expertise in these fields, SLM strives to give its clients richer and more robust legal services.
