Data Privacy Protection
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Amabelle Grace (Che-lin) G. Mascardo Glendale, Arizona 623-***-****
PRIVACY COMPLIANCE & POLICY DATA PROTECTION MANAGEMENT CORPORATE & COMMERCIAL LAW
~ Leading Data Privacy Compliance, Protection & Management & Legal Business Solutions for Global Enterprises ~ Results-driven Data Privacy, Corporate, and Commercial Counsel with years of legal experience resolving complex challenges and managing transactions for global enterprises. International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) Certified Information Privacy Manager (CIPM), IAPP Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/E & CIPP/US) and dual-qualified to practice law in the Philippines and New York State. Specializes in corporate, commercial, tax, and data privacy law. With the ability to guide businesses in interpreting and applying privacy regulations such as the GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA, and other emerging laws to develop and implement robust privacy frameworks. Proven expertise in cross-border transactions, compliance, tax strategy and planning, and regulatory matters in the US and the Philippines for multinational companies and subsidiaries. Skilled in structuring multi-party transactions, facilitating foreign investments, and drafting and negotiating agreements. Recognized for engaging with stakeholders, providing strategic counsel to executives and business teams, aligning legal strategies with organizational goals to enhance productivity, addressing evolving statutory and regulatory landscapes, and delivering measurable results.
Data Privacy Privacy Law & Regulation Data Protection Strategy & Integration Data Protection Law General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) Privacy Compliance Data Processing Agreements Data Retention & Disposal Policies Third-Party Vendor Contracts & Management Due Diligence Audits
& Assessments Data Subject Rights Management Data Inventory & Mapping International Data Transfers & Compliance Employee Privacy & Confidentiality Protection Regulatory & Statutory Compliance & Support Corporate Organization & Reorganization Structuring Businesses & Investments Contract Negotiations Drafting Agreements Legal Research IT & Software Contracts and Agreements Cross-Border Transactions Mergers & Acquisitions Tax Advocacy Equity Restructuring & Financing Tax Advisory & Compliance Statutory Compliance & Corporate Housekeeping Cross-functional Collaboration
Languages: English, Filipino, Cebuano
KEY VALUE OFFERINGS
Privacy Leadership
Ability to guide privacy programs across global
organizations, aligning privacy strategies with
business objectives, ensuring compliance with
GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA and other relevant
laws, while implementing robust risk
management frameworks to minimize privacy
risks.
Corporate & Commercial Expertise
Experienced in complex corporate
transactions, strategic business operations,
and commercial negotiations, aligning legal
strategies with organizational goals and
ensuring regulatory compliance to achieve
sustainable performance.
Tax Experience
Expert in tax advisory, compliance, and
planning, delivering tax-saving strategies,
managing complex tax risks, and ensuring
full alignment with global tax regulations to
maximize financial efficiency and minimize
liabilities.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Gerodias Suchianco Estrella Law Firm (GSE LAW FIRM) Jan 2021 - Present Special Counsel
Industry-Focused Legal Advisory: Advise multinational and local businesses, ensuring robust legal frameworks to enhance operational efficiency and mitigate risks.
Business Entity Formation: Establish legal entities, including representative offices and subsidiaries, ensuring compliance with laws and other regulatory requirements for seamless market entry.
Governance & Compliance: Provide guidance on corporate governance, compliance with post-incorporation requirements, and ensuring regulatory adherence and operational integrity.
Data Privacy and Intellectual Property Guidance: Strengthen clients’ compliance with data privacy regulations and intellectual property laws, safeguarding sensitive assets and ensuring secure business operations.
Tax Advocacy and Compliance: Counsel clients on tax laws and regulations, ensuring compliance with local and international tax requirements. Advocate for clients in tax disputes and audits, providing strategic insights on minimizing tax liabilities and optimizing tax strategies to align with business goals.
USA BARBRI Multistate Bar Review March 2024 - Present Reviewer
Bar Exam Review and Exam Strategies Expertise: Provide guidance on the effective drafting and presentation of answers and study strategies focusing on the essay portion of the multistate bar exams, assisting students in mastering reasoning and writing skills to enhance their exam performance.
Gerodias Suchianco Estrella Law Firm (GSE LAW FIRM) Jan 2009 - Dec 2020 Senior Partner, Head of Tax Practice Group
Firm Representation: Represented the firm in key industry associations, including The American Chamber of Commerce of the Philippines (AmCham) and the Tax Management Association of the Philippines (TMAP), fostering strategic relationships and enhancing the firm’s industry presence.
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Firm Management & Mentorship: Held various management and partnership roles, with the ability to work collaboratively, hands-on staff supervision, and mentoring and training junior lawyers ensuring professional development and maintaining high standards of legal practice.
Business Entity Formation: Directed the establishment of legal entities, including representative offices and subsidiaries, ensuring completion within timelines, and compliance with laws relevant to the industry.
Mergers & Acquisitions: Secured favorable outcomes in high-stakes mergers, acquisitions, and joint ventures, leveraging due diligence, strategic negotiations, and tax expertise to optimize legal and financial advantages.
Tax Strategy Leadership: Developed and led the firm’s tax advisory services, creating innovative tax strategies that reduced liabilities and optimized positive financial outcomes for clients across various industries.
Transaction Tax Solutions: Managed complex tax issues arising from mergers, acquisitions, restructuring, buy-outs and other transactions, ensuring full compliance with tax regulations while maximizing fiscal advantages for clients.
Global Tax Compliance: Designed and implemented efficient tax compliance frameworks for clients with international presence, reducing exposure to cross-border tax risks and streamlining global financial strategies.
Tax Dispute Resolution: Represented clients in high-stakes tax disputes, obtaining favorable rulings, and negotiating settlements that minimized exposure and protected financial stability through effective dispute resolution and tax strategies.
Strategic Deal Structuring: Structured and negotiated high-impact transactions such as mergers, acquisitions, franchising, and joint ventures, with the ability to identify problems and develop practical solutions, and aligning the deals with clients’ long-term strategic objectives and business growth.
Corporate Restructuring Initiatives: Led successful restructuring initiatives for clients in real estate, financing, business process outsourcing, energy, and pharmaceuticals, optimizing business operations to align with evolving market trends while ensuring full regulatory compliance.
Intellectual Property Protection: Managed the protection of intellectual property, including trademarks, industrial design, and copyrights, safeguarding clients’ assets to preserve business value and competitive edge.
Business Development & Expansion: Simplified the process of setting up businesses in the Philippines, ensuring full compliance from initial incorporation through to post-establishment requirements, and assisted clients’ in their expansion plans.
Equity Realignment: Led equity realignment and corporate reorganization efforts to enhance financial positioning and ensure compliance with local and international regulatory requirements.
Directorship/Corporate Officer Duties: Guided and advised companies with governance responsibilities and their statutory and regulatory obligations, ensuring sound corporate governance, ethical corporate practices, transparency, and good housekeeping.
Bids and Proposals: Led the bidding process, formulated proposals, ensured compliance with regulations, and spearheaded projects leading to awarding.
Data Privacy: Advised clients on compliance with government data privacy requirements, minimizing risk exposure.
Regulatory Representation: Advocated for clients before agencies such as the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR), and Intellectual Property Office (IPO), obtaining crucial approvals and resolving disputes to advance their business interests.
Corporate Housekeeping: Advised clients on staying compliant with regulatory requirements and industry standards, ensured the timely filing of reports and disclosures and that corporate actions complied with laws to avoid legal issues and penalties, managed communications with the board and shareholders, organized and documented shareholders and board meetings, and identified potential risks related to corporate governance and compliance, and taking measures to mitigate them.
Exposure to Various Industries: Negotiated, prepared, reviewed, and analyzed contracts/documents and closed deals and transactions of companies engaged in software and information technology, business process outsourcing, gaming, financing, food, retail, wholesale, restaurant, mining, media, manufacturing, investments, real estate, leasing, services, entertainment, and construction businesses.
DE BORJA MEDIALDEA BELLO GUEVARRA & GERODIAS May 2002 - Dec 2005 Senior Associate
Contract Negotiation & Preparation: Led the drafting, reviewing, and negotiating of high-value contracts for companies across multiple sectors, including real estate, business process outsourcing, food, retail, software and information technology, media, financing, and other industries, ensuring client interests were protected and aligned with legal and regulatory requirements.
Corporate Governance Consulting: Advised on developing and implementing corporate governance structures, improved decision-making processes, and ensured compliance with statutory and industry standards.
Dispute Resolution & Risk Management: Strategized and executed dispute resolution through negotiation and mediation, minimizing legal complications and reducing financial exposure.
Compliance Audits & Risk Reduction: Conducted legal due diligence and compliance audits to identify non-compliance, providing corrective measures to mitigate legal risks and ensure continued regulatory adherence.
Regulatory Representation & Advocacy: Represented clients in regulatory matters, securing approvals, managing disputes, and ensured compliance with government regulations to advance business interests.
Legal Research: Conducted comprehensive legal research and in-depth case and project analysis to shape strategies and provide actionable client advisories.
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Corporate Transaction Facilitation: Spearheaded corporate transactions, including incorporations and business registrations, enabling clients to operate soundly and expand operations while ensuring legal soundness. EDUCATION
Juris Doctor (with Honors)
Silliman University College of Law Dumaguete City, Negros Oriental Bachelor of Mass Communications (with Honors)
Silliman University School of Communication Dumaguete City, Negros Oriental PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
New York Bar
Integrated Bar of the Philippines
International Association of Privacy Professionals Silliman University College of Law Alumni Association Silliman University Alumni Association
CERTIFICATIONS & LICENSES
IAPP Information Privacy Manager (CIPM) Certification IAPP Information Privacy Professional/Europe (CIPP/E) Certification IAPP Information Privacy Professional/United States (CIPP/US) Certification New York State Bar Examination
Philippine Bar Examination - Seventh (7th) Place in the Top Ten Philippine Government Career Professional Exams
Philippine Government Career Sub-Professional Exams FORMER DIRECTORSHIPS & POSITIONS
Directorships:
AB Food and Beverages Philippines, Incorporated (Ovaltine and Twinings of London) Airmaverick Inc. Assetvalues Holding Company, Inc. Alpha Point Property Holdings, Inc. ASC Phils. Corp. Branaff Holdings, Inc. Countrybreeze Corporation Deltacrest Holdings, Inc. Eastbay Resorts, Inc. Eastbay Resorts Limited (BVI) Elegant Infoventures, Inc. Escaler Realty Corporation Expanding Venture Equities and Resources, Inc. Kewalram Philippines, Inc. Las Palmas Holdings Corp. Magnum Leisure Holdings, Incorporated Magnum Leisure Holdings Limited (BVI) Moberick Development, Inc. Nine Media Philippines Corp. (CNN Philippines) Opus Inspection Philippines, Inc. Packwell Process Center, Inc. Pedalmax Holdings, Inc. Sequel Advertising, Inc. Skytrooper Charter Phils., Inc. Solar Television Network, Inc. South American Entertainment Corporation II Limited (BVI) Terramino Holdings, Inc. The New Centurians Group Philippines, Inc. Thunderbird Frontier Realty, Inc. Thunderbird Pilipinas Hotels and Resorts, Inc. (Thunderbird Resorts Poro Point) Thunderbird Poro Development Ventures, Inc. Thunderbird-Poro Point Limited (BVI) Tigerlion, Inc. Corporate Secretaryships:
Alpha Point Property Holdings, Inc. Artnature Philippines Inc. JRLT-JHI Corp. Kewalram Philippines, Inc. Magnum Leisure Holdings Limited Mida Food Distributors Inc. Nine Media Philippines Corp. (CNN Philippines) Packwell Process Center, Inc. Opus Inspection Philippines, Inc. Solar Television Network, Inc. Assistant Corporate Secretaryships:
AB Food and Beverages Philippines, Incorporated (Ovaltine and Twinings of London) ALV Events International, Inc. ALV Talents Circuit, Inc. Escaler Realty Corporation Moberick Development, Inc. Sequel Advertising, Inc. Treasurer Positions:
Airmaverick Inc. Asset Values Holdings Company, Inc. Eastbay Resorts, Inc. Las Palmas Holdings Corp. Magnum Leisure Holdings, Incorporated Moberick Development, Inc. Skytrooper Charter Phils., Inc. The New Centurians Group Philippines, Inc. Thunderbird Frontier Realty, Inc. Thunderbird Pilipinas Hotels and Resorts, Inc. (Thunderbird Resorts) Thunderbird Poro Development Ventures, Inc.
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