Christina Macasaet-Acaban

Practice Areas

Christina is a partner and a member of the Management Committee of Quisumbing Torres, a member firm of Baker & McKenzie International. She heads the Corporate & Commercial/M&A Practice Group, the Competition Focus Group, and the Healthcare & Life Sciences Indu stry Group in Quisumbing Torres. Christina's practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, foreign investments and structuring, antitrust and competition, and corporate reorganizations and restructuring for a range of industries including pharmaceuticals and healthcare, technolog y, media and telecommunications, real estate, consumer goods and retail, and manufacturing.

Christina is also a member of the Technology, Media & Telecommunications Industry Group. She is a member of Baker & McKenzie International's Asia Pacific Healthcare & Life Sciences Steering Committee and the Asia Pacific M&A Steering Committee. She has 24 years of experience advising and representing multinational corporations on domestic and cross-border transactions.

Christina is cited as a Distinguished Practitioner for Corporate and M&A by asialaw Leading Lawyers 2020-2024, and Highly Regarded Lawyer in Corporate and M&A by the IFLR1000-Financial and Corporate Guide 2019-2024. She is recognized as Future Leader for Competition by Who's Who Legal: Competition in 2020-2023. She is a leading individual (Band 3) in Corporate and M&A by Chambers Asia Pacific and Chambers Global 2022-2024.

Christina is among Asia Business Law Journal's "A-List" of the Top 100 lawyers in the Philippines 2021-2024.

Christina studied Law at the UP College of Law (cum laude; top 3 of graduating class).