Keisha Trina M. Guangko

Keisha Trina M. Guangko is based in the Firm’s Cebu office.

Keisha’s areas of practice include litigation and dispute resolution, intellectual property, corporate services, and employment and labor law. She handles trial and appellate litigation work before Philippine courts and quasi-judicial agencies and has extensive experience representing a diverse range of clientele before local and international commercial arbitration tribunals.

Keisha represents clients from a wide range of industries, from property development to charitable institutions, before various judicial courts all over the Philippines, particularly the Visayas islands, in cases involving property disputes, tax assessments, voluntary liquidation, and even defending clients against unfounded accusations of criminal fraud.

Keisha’s successful legal engagements include leading a team on a case against a Local Government Project Owner involving a claim for final payment by the client who was nevertheless awarded 50% of said claim; defended a surety against a Project Owner whose Project did not commence through no fault of the contractor; and litigated a landmark constitutional case on behalf of a minority group deprived of fundamental human rights before the Supreme Court.

Keisha has also defended commercial interest cases including the nullification of a multi-million tax assessment of a rural bank before the Court of Tax Appeals and the protection of the trademark of an up-and-coming athletics company before the Intellectual Property Office.