Jude OCAMPO

Introduction

Jude Ocampo is a Philippine attorney specialising in M&A, corporate law and tax. Ocampo has assisted a number of global and ASEAN multinationals in multi-jurisdictional reorganisations and has advised many clients on complex M&A.

He holds a master of laws degree from Harvard University where he received the Ayala Scholarship Grant, the Lopez Scholarship Grant and the Landon H Gammon Fellowship for academic excellence. He also earned a master of business administration degree (finance and supply chain management) from UNC-Chapel Hill’s Kenan-Flagler Business School where he was a UNC Kenan-Flagler fellow. He is a graduate of and a former professorial lecturer on tax law and constitutional law at the University of the Philippines College of Law.

A corporate and tax lawyer with more than two decades of experience in the Philippines and abroad, Ocampo held senior director or partner positions in several Big 4 firms in the Philippines (KPMG), Central Asia (Deloitte) and in Europe (E&Y). He was, until 2015, a regional tax director and deputy head of regional tax of DFDL, an international law firm focusing on high-growth Asian markets.

He also served in the Philippine government. From 2004 to 2005, he was assistant secretary for legal affairs of the republic’s trade and industry department and finance department.

Ocampo has been recognised by other regional publications as a leading lawyer on M&A and corporate law and as a notable external counsel. He has also been named among the top 100 Lawyers of the Philippines by Asia Business Law Journal in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024.

Ocampo & Suralvo Law Offices (OS Law) is a full-service law firm. OS Law assists its clients with their corporate, commercial, and tax needs across a spectrum of business concerns including general corporate and commercial matters, company establishment and registration, contract negotiation and drafting, M&A, joint ventures, corporate restructuring, foreign direct investments, and litigation.