Expanding a foreign business into Cebu or Davao requires navigating Philippines foreign investment laws, regional equity thresholds, and branch office establishment rules. 1. Understanding Equity...
Receiving your SEC Certificate of Incorporation and Mayor’s Permit is a major milestone, but your legal compliance is incomplete without registering with the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR). You must...
Cebu and Davao are primary destinations for Information Technology and Business Process Management (IT-BPM) investments in the Philippines. However, establishing a tech corporation in these southern...
Once your corporation receives its SEC Certificate of Incorporation, it cannot legally start commercial operations without a local Mayor’s Business Permit. While national laws govern corporate...
Setting up a domestic corporation or One Person Corporation (OPC) in the Philippines is now handled primarily online via the SEC’s eSPARC portal. However, once your digital application passes...
Fast-Tracking Your Cebu Business: How the BFP “Negative List” Speeds Up Your Mayor’s Permit Securing a Fire Safety Inspection Certificate (FSIC) used to be one of the biggest...