George Exiomo | Professional Lecturer, De La Salle University College of Law & Managing Partner
Exiomo Law Chambers

GEORGE EXIOMO is the founder and managing partner of the EXIOMO LAW CHAMBERS. He has been practicing law since his admission to the bar in 1999, and leads the firm’s corporate and special projects. He was also admitted to the New York State bar in 2009.  His experience comprises project development and financing, including renewable energy and power law, foreign direct investments, corporate structuring, infrastructure, privatization, construction, environment and natural resources, capital repatriation, securities and property, expatriate immigration compliance and documentation, and land development and conversion, VAT refunds, succession and estate law. Mr. Exiomo was a senior partner at one of Manila’s biggest law firms where he led its admission into leading international law firm associations. He was the Philippine general counsel of US-based AES Corporation, the former owner of the 600MW Masinloc Plant which won the Edison Award. He was the chief legal counsel of the Philippines’ largest and trailblazing solar power company for several years, helping break paths and obstacles in renewable energy contracting, RE policy and market liberalization strategy, and helped secure from Congress the country’s first distributed generation franchise which paved the way for a general law on distributed generation. Mr. Exiomo was a senior associate and Registered Foreign Lawyer at Baker & McKenzie in Singapore in 2007-2008, and at SyCip Salazar Hernandez and Gatmaitan from 2004 to 2007. He was a senior corporate counsel and presidential adviser at the National Power Corporation. He was an associate of the famed election lawyer Sixto Brillantes (later Commission on Elections chairman) and renowned constitutional law expert, Antonio Nachura (later Supreme Court Justice), at Brillantes’s law offices in Manila.  He obtained his law degree in 1998 from San Beda, and a master of laws degree from Columbia Law School in 2004 where he was a Fulbright scholar.  He teaches law at the De La Salle University Tañada-Diokno College of Law and the Arellano University School of Law specializing in Property, Succession, Public International Law, Environmental Law and Natural Resources and Corporation Law.