Atty. Ma. Samira C. Tacandong is a Senior Associate of the Firm. Her practice areas primarily focus on taxation, financial technology, banking, capital markets, estate planning, and general corporate and commercial law. She participates in numerous transactions involving mergers and acquisitions, due diligence exercises and the review and drafting of various transaction documents.

Samira earned her Juris Doctor degree from the University of the Philippines College of Law in 2021. She was admitted to the Philippine Bar in 2022 and joined the Firm in the same year. While taking up her law studies, she interned for the Business Tax Group of Sycip, Gorres, Velayo & Co. (SGV).

She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Management Economics, minor in Financial Management from the Ateneo de Manila University in 2017.