The 2026 Doing Business in the Philippines guidebook was recently unveiled by DivinaLaw together with fellow collaborators, European Chamber of Commerce of the Philippines (ECCP) and the Board of Investments (BOI) in a program held in Makati City.
“From a legal standpoint, Doing Business in the Philippines (DBIP) is not merely a publication. It is an institutional response to a recurring concern we hear from foreign investors: not whether laws exist, but whether they are coherent, accessible, and consistently applied,” said DivinaLaw Senior Partner Atty. Danny E. Bunyi.
“The Philippine investment framework is robust. We have modern statutes on investments, public services, renewable energy, taxation, competition, labor, immigration, and intellectual property. Yet in practice, investors often encounter fragmentation—multiple agencies, overlapping requirements, evolving regulations, and procedural uncertainty. DBIP was designed precisely to address this challenge.”
This year’s investment guidebook is the fourth edition produced by DivinaLaw and ECCP, and the second edition with BOI as co-collaborator.
The press launch was attended by Atty. Nilo T. Divina, Managing Partner of DivinaLaw; Atty. Bobby Fondevilla, Executive Director of the BOI Investment Assistance Center; Mr. Ernesto C. Delos Reyes Jr., Director of BOI Investment Assistance Service; H.E. Massimo Santoro, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Delegation of the European Union to the Philippines; H.E. Christian Halaas Lyster, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Embassy of Norway; Mr. Florian Gottein, ECCP Executive Director; and Mr. Paulo Duarte, ECCP President.
The guidebook is available for download here: https://bit.ly/4cpV1V0
