About Carina C Laforteza

Carina C Laforteza is a partner and currently head of the tax department at SyCip Salazar Hernandez & Gatmaitan. Carina has extensive tax experience, ranging from tax structuring for corporations and individuals to tax compliance and litigation, as well as tax-related arbitration. She performs corporate work such as M&A and divestments (including transaction structuring) as well as financing work, acting for the lenders or borrowers. Her clients include major players in the aviation, manufacturing, advertising, banking, mass media, telecommunications and money remittance industries. Carina has been a professorial lecturer in taxation at the University of the Philippines since 2009. She is also a certified public accountant.