The firm · Established 2022
A Philippine boutique firm.
A business-minded approach.
Nopuente Law Firm advises businesses, employers, professionals and individuals on tax, corporate risk and consequential disputes.
NLF is a Philippine law firm based in Mandaluyong City, advising on tax, corporate and commercial matters, employer legal risk, and business disputes.
Nopuente Law Firm · Mandaluyong City · Established 2022
Nopuente Law Firm is a Philippine law firm based in Mandaluyong City. The firm provides business-focused counsel in tax and BIR matters, corporate and commercial work, employer legal risk, and business disputes. It helps clients prevent avoidable legal problems, make informed decisions, and respond with discipline when disputes or government proceedings arise.
How the boutique model works
Defined responsibility.
Senior direction.
NLF’s Managing Lawyer leads strategy. Lawyers and legal operations professionals work together on the accepted scope, records, deadlines and client coordination.
- Focused teams
- The firm assesses the matter before assigning the appropriate lawyer or counsel.
- Clear scope
- Deliverables, fee basis, assumptions and exclusions are confirmed in writing.
- Document-led advice
- Recommendations begin with the available facts and records.
- Commercial context
- The legal position is considered alongside the client’s practical objective.
Prevention and dispute strategy
We advise on tax and BIR matters, corporate and commercial work, employer legal risk, and business disputes.
Our work begins with the facts, the records and the business consequence of the next step.
Many legal disputes begin before a case is filed: a poorly structured transaction, an unclear contract, a missed compliance obligation, weak documentation, or an unmanaged response to a government notice. NLF therefore approaches legal risk first through prevention, structure, documentation, and timely advice.
When a dispute cannot be avoided, the firm brings litigation and government-proceeding experience to the protection of the client’s position. This allows preventive legal advice and dispute strategy to be considered together instead of in isolation.
The firm’s work is organized around the legal issues that most directly affect businesses, employers, professionals, and decision-makers: taxes, transactions, governance, contracts, employment, compliance, and disputes.
Professional roots
Founded after public service.
Atty. Ivn Maj M. Nopuente founded NLF in 2022 after working in public prosecution and investigation at the Department of Justice. He is also a law professor and a taxation textbook author published by Rex.
Read the founder’s profileProfessional background and training
NLF brings together tax and corporate practice, government investigation experience, commercial arbitration training, and a document-led approach to business legal risk.
Former DOJ Prosecutor
Public prosecution and investigation experience
Tax & Corporate Practice
Business-focused advisory, compliance and controversy work
Commercial Arbitration Training
PDRCI commercial arbitration training
Data Protection Training
TÜV Rheinland data protection training
Corporate Compliance Training
CGBP corporate compliance training
Legal Education
Law teaching and taxation authorship
Origins, teaching and legal writing
Nopuente Law Firm was founded in 2022 by Atty. Ivn Maj M. Nopuente after his work in public prosecution and investigation at the Department of Justice. What began as a solo practice has developed into a coordinated legal team supported by lawyers, a Special Managing Counsel, and legal operations professionals.
The firm is built around a practical principle: legal advice should help clients make better decisions, protect records and rights, meet legal obligations, and respond effectively when disputes or government proceedings arise.
A former DOJ public prosecutor and investigation agent, law professor and taxation textbook author published by Rex.
NLF is founded and led by Atty. Ivn Maj M. Nopuente, a former DOJ public prosecutor and investigation agent. His professional work also includes legal education and writing as a law professor and the author of a taxation textbook published by Rex.
Teaching and authorship support the same discipline required in legal practice: careful research, clear explanation, and the ability to translate complex rules into decisions that clients can understand and implement.
How NLF approaches a matter
Legal advice must be legally sound, factually grounded, and practical to implement. NLF evaluates a matter through four connected questions.
Facts and evidence
What happened, what can be proved, which records are available, and which facts still require confirmation?
Deadlines and procedure
What must be filed, answered, preserved, or completed, and by when?
Business consequences
How could the available options affect operations, cost, relationships, reputation, and future risk?
Recommendation and implementation
What is the most defensible practical course, and what must the client and legal team do next?
Review framework
- 01Facts & evidence
- 02Deadlines & procedure
- 03Business consequences
- 04Recommendation & action
Core business legal work
Practice scope
NLF concentrates its work in four connected areas of legal risk.
Tax and BIR
BIR audits, tax assessments and collection matters, Court of Tax Appeals proceedings, tax advisory, and transaction-related tax issues.
Corporate and Commercial
Company formation and governance, contracts, commercial transactions, regulatory compliance, and continuing corporate legal support.
Employer Legal Risk
Preventive labor advice, due process, workplace policies, employment documentation, and the protection of employer interests.
Business Disputes and Litigation
Civil and commercial disputes, evidence strategy, court proceedings, administrative matters, and criminal issues arising from business conduct.
Based in Mandaluyong. Serving clients nationwide.
From its Mandaluyong City office, NLF assists businesses, employers, professionals, and individuals in Metro Manila and across the Philippines through in-person and online engagement, where appropriate.
Unit 126 G/F Pioneer Heights 1, Pioneer St., Brgy. Highway Hills, Mandaluyong City 1550
inquiries@nopuentelawfirm.com
Begin with the issue
Discuss the matter and what is at stake.
Initial matter review
Share the essential facts, the parties involved, and any approaching deadline. The firm will review the matter for fit and conflicts and advise you of the appropriate next step.
Submitting an inquiry does not establish an attorney-client relationship. Engagements are subject to conflict checking and written acceptance.