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Jonathan Serrano

PunoLaw

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Position: Senior Partner
Rating:
  • Highly regarded
Bar Admissions:
Philippines
Practice Areas:
Banking
M&A
Jurisdictions:
Biography

Jonathan P. Serrano is a Senior Partner at PUNOLAW, and heads the banking and finance practice of the firm.  His practice focuses on banking and financial institutions regulation, project and infrastructure finance, acquisition finance, notes/bond issuances, syndicated lending transactions, mergers and acquisitions, real estate project structuring and development, public-private partnerships, and corporate/commercial law.  He has been engaged as a public-private partnership Key Legal Expert (Philippines) of the Philippine Public-Private Partnership Center in connection with the development of critical infrastructure facilities. 

Recent transactional highlights
  • Advised Helios Solar Energy Corp. (a Vena Energy company) in connection with the financing of a 132.5 MW solar energy generating facility in Cadiz City, Negros Occidental, Philippines
  • Advised Scatec Solar ASA in connection with its acquisition of 100% of Norfund’s interests in SN Power
  • Advised Crescent Point Group in connection with its acquisition of an equity stake in each of (i) Del Monte Philippines, Incorporated, and (ii) LBC Express Holdings, Inc.
  • Advised SNP Netherlands in connection with the restructuring of its investments in several Philippine project companies.
  • Advised Rockwell Land Corporation in connection with the development of several mixed-use condominium and horizontal projects all over Luzon and the Visayas, Philippines
  • Advised the Philippine Public-Private Partnership Center and the Department of Public Works and Highways in connection with the bidding for the development and operation of an expressway-dike project in Luzon, Philippines
  • Advised the PPP Center and the Zamboanga Economic Zone Authority in the connection with the development, construction, operation and maintenance of a seaport in the Zambo Ecozone, Philippines
Practice areas
  • Banking
  • M&A
  • PPP/PFI
  • Project development
  • Project finance
Sector specialisations
  • Banking
  • Energy
  • Financial services
  • Investment management
  • Real estate
Association memberships
  • Integrated Bar of the Philippines
Academic qualifications
  • Juris Doctor in Law, University of the Philippines College of Law, 1994 
  • Bachelor of Science in Economics, University of the Philippines School of Economics, 1990
Address:
Metro Manila
Tel:+63286311261 / +639175625727 Email:Contact this practitioner Website:http://www.punolaw.com