Patricia Bunye is a Senior Partner and Deputy Managing Partner for Administration of Cruz Marcelo & Tenefrancia.
She heads its Mining and Natural Resources Department and Energy practice group and is a Partner in its Intellectual Property Department.
She is a Past President of the Licensing Executives Society International (LESI) [2016-2017], the first Filipino and Southeast Asian to hold the position. She is also founding President of Diwata-Women in Resource Development, Inc., a non-government organization that advocates responsible development of the Philippines’ wealth in resources.
In her Mining & Natural Resources practice, she is recognized among the foremost mining lawyers in the Philippines. In the 2015 edition of the Chambers directory, Patricia is cited as being “highly regarded by both peers and clients in this industry.”
She is an active member of the Chamber of Mines of the Philippines’ Legal Committee and is a regular speaker in the Mining 101 course of the University of the Philippines lecture series. She also has a regular column in Philippine Resources Journal.
She is in the 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019 and 2018 lists of The Philippines’ Top 100 Lawyers and has been cited by various international law research publications such as Chambers, Legal 500, Asia Law, among many others.
She is a Fellow of the Instit...
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