Alain Charles Veloso is a partner of Quisumbing Torres’ Corporate & Commercial and Banking & Finance Practice Groups. He heads the firm’s Capital Markets Practice Group and is a member of the Competition Focus Group. He is also a member of the Technology, Media & Telecommunications and Industrials, Manufacturing & Transportation Industry Groups. He has 12 years of legal practice, advising several investment banks, funds, and multinational corporations with regard to their transactions in the Philippines, including private and public M&A transactions, debt, and equity capital markets transactions, and structuring and establishment of their Philippine presence, as applicable. Charles actively participates in the firm’s Corporate Social Responsibility initiatives. He heads the firm’s Diversity & Inclusion and B-Green committees in Manila. He was a former Director of the Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP) Makati Chapter, and currently serves as Auditor and Chairperson of the Legal Education Committee. He has been recognized as External Counsel of the Year in Asia by The Asian-MENA In-House Community Counsels in 2019, and cited as a Next Generation Lawyer for Corporate and M&A by Legal 500 for 2017 and 2018. He was also a 2018 Bench and Bar Awardee of the Integrated Bar of the Philippines’ Leyte Chapter for his legal achievements. Charles studied EU Competition Law at the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2017 (highest grade). He is also a Certified Public Accountant.