Ma. Joycelyn Guirnalda Email and Phone Number

• SPCMB is a general service law firm handling a variety of cases and clients. As a Senior Partner and Head of the Litigation Department, Joyce handles and manages the litigation of a variety of cases before judicial, quasi-judicial and administrative bodies. She also supervises a number of the senior and junior associates of the Firm.

• Accenture Philippines is part of a global company providing information technology services in different industries for worldwide clients and across the world. Joyce held the position of senior manager in the legal division servicing the Philippine delivery network. She handled a variety of legal, regulatory, and statutory compliance for the company, including data privacy compliance and making sure that legal risks are managed and mitigated.

- Remedial Management Unit - Risk Management Group• Joyce was the Team Head for the Corporate Commercial Litigation Team, under the Remedial Management Unit-Risk Management Group of the Bank. As Team Head, she managed at one point the corporate, commercial, consumer and leasing litigation portfolio of the Bank, handling the cases before the trial courts, quasi-judicial agencies and appellate courts.• Among her functions included, among others, the preparation of complaints… Show more - Remedial Management Unit - Risk Management Group• Joyce was the Team Head for the Corporate Commercial Litigation Team, under the Remedial Management Unit-Risk Management Group of the Bank. As Team Head, she managed at one point the corporate, commercial, consumer and leasing litigation portfolio of the Bank, handling the cases before the trial courts, quasi-judicial agencies and appellate courts.• Among her functions included, among others, the preparation of complaints, petitions, motions, memoranda and other pleadings for filing in courts, quasi-judicial agencies and appellate courts; review of transactional documents, agreements and contracts; preparation of legal opinions on various topics; review of pleadings prepared and drafted by the other lawyers of the Litigation Team; review of various legal opinions, contracts, agreements, and transaction documents involving the Bank; handling of corporate rehabilitation cases and insolvency proceedings whether debtor-initiated or creditor-initiated; management and monitoring of International Arbitration Cases involving the Bank. Show less

Litigation Department• As a member of the Litigation Department of the Firm, Joyce handled the litigation of a variety of cases before judicial, quasi-judicial and administrative bodies, among her practice areas are the following:- Labor Litigation: cases of illegal dismissals, petitions for certification election, petitions for cancellation of union registration, petitions for declaration of illegal strike, and unfair labor practice; - Civil Litigation: enforcement of… Show more Litigation Department• As a member of the Litigation Department of the Firm, Joyce handled the litigation of a variety of cases before judicial, quasi-judicial and administrative bodies, among her practice areas are the following:- Labor Litigation: cases of illegal dismissals, petitions for certification election, petitions for cancellation of union registration, petitions for declaration of illegal strike, and unfair labor practice; - Civil Litigation: enforcement of contracts, cases for damages and collection of sum of money; - Corporate Litigation: intra-corporate disputes, insolvency proceedings, and corporate rehabilitation;- Criminal cases: theft, robbery, estafa and violation of Batas Pambansa 22;- Land Registration proceedings: conveyance and other dealings by registered owner, involuntary dealings involving registered lands such as replacement of lost duplicate certificates of title, annotation of adverse claim, removal of annotations of liens; - Special civil actions for certiorari and prohibition;- Application for the provisional remedies of injunction and attachment; and- Appellate practice.• She likewise drafted legal opinions on various topics, such as, on labor law, intellectual property law, insurance law, constitutional law, civil law, criminal law, banking law, corporation law, agrarian reform law and other aspects of the foregoing cases handled;• She also handled corporate accounts doing contract reviews, incorporation and other corporate housekeeping; • She was involved in special projects and due diligence projects; and• She was likewise asked to handle intellectual property cases including the prosecution of trademark and service marks, IP Litigation and enforcement actions. Show less

• Joyce handled labor and employment related matters, doing legal research and preparation of labor opinions; drafting of motions, pleadings and memoranda for filing with the National Labor Relations Commission and Department of Labor and Employment; conduct of due diligence on mergers and acquisition of corporations; handling of illegal dismissal cases; and all issues relating to Philippine Employment Law.