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Angel Salita

Angel M. Salita, Jr. is a partner in SyCip Salazar Hernandez & Gatmaitan. His practice area is corporate law, specializing in special projects (including power, energy, oil and gas, telecommunications, water, construction, BOT, and other infrastructure laws), project finance, acquisition, investment, and banking. Projects that he has handled or is handling include Hutama-RSEA's $370M construction contract with CMMTC for the Manila Skyway (Phase I); Sual and Pagbilao power projects of Mirant Energy (formerly Southern Energy and Hopewell), the plants’ excess capacity sale, and the eventual divestment of Mirant Energy’s interest in the Philippines; JBIC’s project financing for the San Roque hydropower projects; AES’ acquisition of NPC’s Masinloc power plant; BWSC’s O&M contracts for NPC’s power barges; NTT’s investments in PLDT and Smart; Asian Broadcast Satellite’s acquisition of Mabuhay Agila II satellite; Anglian Water Corporation’s water project with the Province of Laguna; Chevron Geothermal’s Tiwi and Mak-Ban geothermal project; CBK’s power project; structuring of Meralco’s power generation business; Meralco PowerGen’s investment in RP Energy; Climate Change Capital’s investments in various renewable energy projects; Filinvest’s construction of PBCom Tower; and Tomen’s supply of telecom equipment to Globe. · SyCip Salazar Hernandez & Gatmaitan

PhilippinesCorporate / M&A, Project Finance

About

Partner at SyCip Salazar Hernandez & Gatmaitan based in the Philippines, specializing in corporate law with a focus on special projects (power, energy, oil & gas, telecommunications, water, construction, BOT and other infrastructure), project finance, acquisitions, investments and banking.

Practice areas

Corporate / M&AProject FinanceBanking & FinanceEnergy & Natural ResourcesInfrastructure / ConstructionTelecommunicationsIntellectual Property

Office

Expertise

Power & energy projects (thermal, hydro, geothermal)Oil & gasTelecommunications investmentsWater & utilities projectsInfrastructure and BOT projectsProject finance and acquisitionsConstruction contracts

Education

  • B.S., Mechanical Engineering, University of the Philippines (1982)
  • LL.B., University of the Philippines (1989)
  • MBA, International Management, International University of Japan (1994)
  • Exchange student, University of Washington

Admissions

  • Philippine Bar (admitted 1991)
  • Mechanical Engineering Board Examination (1st place, 1984)