
CHRISTINE O. DE GUZMAN
Senior Associate
CHRISTINE O. DE GUZMAN is a general law practitioner possessing broad experience in the study, investigation, litigation, arbitration, and counseling, especially in matters involving constitutional, civil and/or criminal disputes, family law, labor-relations and employment, immigration, corporate and taxation, estate planning, banking, real estate, intellectual property rights, and intra-corporate controversies.
She took up Bachelor of Science in Management, Major in Legal Management at the Ateneo De Manila University. Thereafter, she worked as an E-Commerce Merchandising Supervisor at the US Auto Parts (USAP) Network, Inc. and hurdled the entire law school years as a working student. On top of that, she was a consistent scholar of the Ateneo Law School Scholar Program and eventually as the Manila Bay Scholar all throughout her journey in the Juris Doctor Program of the Ateneo Law School, in Makati City. Right after graduation, she was then admitted to the bar in 2011.
She was once part of the legal team of Escudero, Marasigan, Vallente & E.H. Villareal Law Office where she served as a Junior Associate and she also became an Associate Lawyer of Ledesma Gonzales Law Office before joining the legal team of Mendoza Navarro-Mendoza & Partners Law Offices, where she is now serving as the Senior Associate thereof.
With her considerable expertise in both procedural and substantive law, Atty. De Guzman has successfully litigated before various administrative and arbitral tribunals; quasi-judicial and judicial courts; and has personally appeared before the Court of Tax Appeals to defend and advocate notable client's rights and key legal positions.
She has led the prosecution of, as she has also defended, a number of sophisticated tax cases, fraud and multi-million fund misappropriation cases, land and cadastral cases, high-stake commercial and tax disputes, and claims on contractual and/or legal liabilities and damages. She has also handled drafting, review, and revision of a number contract
With her vast array of experience in the legal practice, not to mention her continued and unending search for knowledge, Atty. De Guzman is surely capable of handling almost any type of case thrown her way.


