Atty. Sherry Obiles-Baura

Atty. Obiles-Baura is a licensed Certified Public Accountant. She was qualified by the U.S.-based Institute of Internal Auditors as a Certified Internal Auditor. She specializes in tax management.

Prior to joining our Law Firm, Atty. Obiles-Baura was an executive at the Corporate Tax Division of SM Investments Corporation (“SMIC”), a holding company in the SM Group of Companies (“SM Group”) with interests in retail, mall development and management, real estate development, banking, and hotels. She handled tax planning, advisory and advocacy at both local and national levels for the SM Group. She started her career at SMIC as Senior Manager in 2006. Atty. Obiles-Baura was promoted to Assistant Vice-President in 2007 and thereafter to Senior Assistant Vice-President in 2008 in recognition of her excellent performance and high degree of professionalism.

Sycip Gorres Velayo & Co. (“SGV”) was Atty. Obiles-Baura’s first training ground in taxation. She started as Senior Associate in the Ernst & Young affiliate firm in 2000 and was promoted to Associate Director in 2002. In 2005, she received the SGV Special Award for her exceptional performance. She handled general tax advisory, corporate organization and reorganizations, individual and corporate tax planning, tax advocacy, transfer-pricing and business registration for fiscal incentives on behalf of local and multinational companies.

Atty. Obiles-Baura also has extensive experience in accounting and audit. She worked as an accountant at the Nedila King Yu Accounting Firm in 1995, and the Peñaloza Foreign Exchange in 1994. While in college, she worked as an Accounting Clerk at the Grand Progressive Manufacturing Inc. from 1990 to 1991.

She finished her Bachelor of Laws (Ll.B.) studies as Gold Medalist at the San Beda College of Law in 2000 and placed 19^th in the 2000 Bar Examinations. She was a consistent Dean’s Lister at the University of Santo Tomas where she obtained her Bachelor of Science in Commerce, with a Major in Accounting.

Atty. Obiles-Baura serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the Tax Management Association of the Philippines, a non-stock, non-profit corporation organized to, among others, promote the development of tax management as a field of study, specialization, and practice.

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