Rafael A. Morales

Practice Areas 

Banking, Finance & Securities
Investments, Mergers & Acquisitions

  
Admission to the Bar  
1975, Philippines; 1986, New York, U.S.A.  
  
Education  

University of Michigan (LL.M. De Witt Fellow, 1978)
University of the Philippines (B.A., cum laude, 1970; LL.B., cum laude and class valedictorian, 1974) 
  
Work Experience  

Professorial Lecturer, University of the Philippines’ College of Law
Visiting Professor, La Trobe University School of Law, Melbourne, Australia (Summer 2007)
Foreign Attorney, Anderson Mori & Rabinowitz, Tokyo, Japan (1984-1986)
Foreign Attorney, Rosenman Colin Freund Lewis & Cohen, New York, USA (1978-1979) 
  
Citations  

Leading Lawyer in Corporate and Commercial Law (including Mergers and Acquisition), The Asia Pacific Legal 500 (2004)
International Who’s Who of Banking Lawyers (2003)
Leading Practitioner in Banking and Finance, The Asia Pacific Legal 500 (2003)
Leading Lawyer in Banking, Guide to Asia’s Leading Commercial Lawyers, Asia Law (2003)
Guide to the World’s Leading Banking Lawyers, Euromoney Legal Media Group
“List of 100 pre-eminent Asia-Pacific Lawyers,” Asia Legal Business 
  
Authorship  

The Philippine General Banking Law (Annotated) (2007, 3rd ed.)
The Philippine Securities Regulation Code (Annotated) (2005, 1st ed.) 
  
Affiliations  

Inter-Pacific Bar Association (President, 2009-2010; President-Elect, 2008-2009; Vice President, 2007-2008; Committee Coordinator, 1997-1999; Chairman, International Construction Projects Committee, 1995-1997, and Vice Chairman, International Construction Projects Committee, 1993-1995)
Integrated Bar of the Philippines
Financial Executives Institute of the Philippines (Chairman, Tax and Legal Committee, 1993-1994; Recipient, Presidential Merit Award, 1994)
The Philippine Council for Foreign Relations
New York State Bar Association
American Bar Association
Phi Gamma Mu
Phi Kappa Phi