Amabelle C. Asuncion

Atty. Amabelle C. Asuncion has over 20 years of experience as a law practitioner in both the private and public sectors. Her field of expertise covers corporate and commercial law, regulatory & compliance, and government relations.

She is a former commissioner of the Philippine Competition Commission (PCC), a quasi-judicial agency mandated to enforce the Philippine Competition Acts across all sectors. Her other experiences in the public sector include serving as legislative officer for the Office of the Senate Majority Leader and Commission on Appointments and as Executive Director for the Senate Oversight Committee on Climate Change. She is also a member of the faculty of the UP College of Law.

In the private sector, Atty. Asuncion joined the SyCip Salazar Hernandez & Gatmaitan Law Office before eventually moving on to leadership roles in various organizations. She was law and policy reform consultant at the Asian Development Bank, legislative advisor at the European Chamber of Commerce, legal counsel at BDO Unibank and Director for Legal and Regulatory Affairs at Bloomberry Resorts and Hotels, Inc. She then joined the Divina Law Office as a partner.

Atty. Asuncion graduated from the University of the Philippines in 1996 with a BA in English Studies, magna cum laude, and went on to complete her Bachelor of Laws from the same institution in 2001. She went on to the Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, D.C., where she obtained her Master of Laws in International Legal Studies, graduating with distinction, in 2007. She was admitted to the Philippine Bar in 2002 and the New York Bar in 2008.