Atty. Ivy M. Bernardo is an Associate of the Firm and a member of the Firm’s Litigation and Dispute Resolution Department. She has three (3) years of experience in civil and criminal litigation.

Recently, she was part of a team that successfully secured a $2 million judgment in a case where the Firm represented an international airline leasing and management company. She was likewise part of a team that successfully caused the dismissal of criminal cases filed by the Bureau of Internal Revenue against officers of a corporation. She was likewise part of a team that recently secured a criminal conviction for perjury against a rogue employee involved in the $81 million Bangladesh Bank cyber heist in 2016 in a criminal case prosecuted by the Firm as counsel for one of the country’s largest banks.

Prior to joining the Firm, Ivy was a Senior Associate at Isla Lipana & Co., the Philippine member firm of the PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) network, where she represented clients in tax disputes and refunds of internal revenue taxes before the Bureau of Internal Revenue and the Court of Tax Appeals. She obtained her Juris Doctor degree from the Ateneo de Manila University in 2021. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Economy from the University of Asia and the Pacific in 2016.

Ivy was admitted to the Philippine Bar in 2022. She joined the Firm in 2023.