How to effectively joint venture with gov’t

Joint Ventures (JV) 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 through 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.

To guide the private sector on how to JV with government and vice versa, the Center for Global Best Practices will hold a seminar titled, “Business And Public Officials’ Guide on How to Effectively Joint Venture Legally with The Government” on Jan. 24 at the Marriot Hotel, Resorts World Manila, Pasay City.

The 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. Participants will get soft copy compilation of templates of actual and proposed JV ordinances.

The program will feature lawyer Alberto 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). Agra is the chairman of the Philippine Reclamation Authority. Interested participants are encouraged to avail of the early registration savings and group discount for three or more attendees.

For details and all other best practices seminars including How to Prepare Unsolicited Proposals, How To Prepare Bidding Documents, and more, 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.