Business & Public Official's Guide on How to Joint Venture Effectively with the Governement

Joint Ventures (JVs) are increasingly becoming popular as a faster and easier approach towards implementing infrastructure, development and social service-related projects at the national and local government levels. To accelerate more economic growth tbrough Public-Private Partnerships, the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) released the 2013 revised JV Guidelines applicable for government-owned and -controlled corporations, government instrumentalities, government financial institutions, and state universities and colleges.  For local government units (LGUs), they are governed by their own JV ordinances. The authority of LGUs to enter into JVs and provide their own guidelines has been affirmed by the Department of Interior and Local Government and the Department of Justice.

To guide the private sector on how to JV with the government and vice versa, Center for Global Best Practices will be holding a pioneering seminar entitled, “Business And Public Officials’ Guide on How to Effectively Joint Venture Legally with LGUs and GOCCs” on Thursday, November 9, 2017 at the Makati Shangri-La Hotel, Philippines. For details and all other best practices seminars including How To Prepare Your Bidding Documents (Nov. 16 & 17), How To Eject Illegal Dwellers Effectively (Nov. 24), Corporate Governance for Board Directors (Nov. 10), you may check www.cgbp.org or call Manila lines at (02) 842-7148/ 59; 556-8968/ 69; Cebu lines at (032) 512-3106 to 07 and Baguio at (074) 423-5148. 

This one-day special seminar will deal on the definition of a JV, requirements, cash and non-cash contributions of parties, procedures for selecting partners, bundling or unbundling of project components, and trends, opportunities and challenges. Examples of existing and prospective JV projects such as water, reclamation, public markets, bus terminals, land development, government centers, power, transport, and more. Participants will get soft copy compilation of templates of actual and proposed JV ordinances.

This special program will feature Atty. Alberto C. Agra who is a Certified PPP Specialist, Certified Regulation Specialist (Institute for Public-Private Partnerships, VA, USA), PPP Law and Local Government Law Professor and a Political Law Bar Reviewer (Ateneo Law School). He drafted a proposed PPP Code/ Ordinance for LGUs which to date has been referred to by 23 LGUs (13 provinces, 8 cities and 2 municipalities). He also developed a JV Orridnance which to date, has been referred to by 2 cities, Manila and Valenzuela. He was part of the team that developed the 2008 NEDA JV Guidelines. He has conducted over 100 lectures on PPPs and JVs. He is the author of the Proposed PPP Ordinance: Annotated and the co-author of the book, Knowing PPP, BOT & JV: A Legal Annotation. Presently, he is serving the government as chairman of the Philippine Reclamation Authority. 

Interested participants are encourage to avail of the early registration savings and group discount for 3 or more attendees. Register Here