About Patricia A. O. Bunye

Patricia A. O. Bunye is the managing partner at CMT. Patricia heads the mining and natural resources department and the energy practice group. She specialises in IP commercialisation and regulatory matters before the Food & Drug Administration. She was the Licensing Executives Society International (LESI) president in 2016-2017, the first Filipino and Southeast Asian to hold this position. In 2020, she received LESI’s Peter K. Hess Award of Achievement, which is conferred on LES members who have made lasting contributions to LESI and the licensing profession. She is the author of the Philippines chapter of “International Licensing and Technology Transfer: Practice and the Law”.