MANILA, Philippines. 3 February 2024 – The Jollibee Group legal team continues to reap recognition on the global stage. This comes as its Global Chief Legal, Ethics, and Compliance Officer Atty. Valerie F. Amante earned a spot on Business Management Review’s Top 15 Chief Legal Officers in APAC and the Legal 500’s GC Powerlist Southeast Asia 2024, two prestigious listings of the region’s best in-house legal heads.

Atty. Amante was recognized for her commitment to professional excellence and her dedication to ensuring the Jollibee Group’s continued success through strong corporate governance, robust ethics and compliance mechanisms, and strategic legal enablers. She is one of only a few Filipinos recognized in the prestigious lists.

“Having a diverse team spanning different countries, I’ve found that what binds and keeps us motivated is not only our individual commitment to professional excellence and learning but also a shared commitment to each other’s success and encouragement of diversity of thought,” said Atty. Amante.

“As a team, we enable each other’s success by nurturing a safe space where opinions are heard and weighed based on merit. By giving each one an opportunity to co-create an environment where we thrive both professionally and personally, we elevate our own legal practice. This is how we help realize the company’s vision while staying true to our personal vision of what our own success looks like,” she added.

The Legal 500 previously included Atty. Amante in its Philippines 2023 list of leading in-house counsels, alongside the leadership team of the Jollibee Group’s global legal team, and also included the team in its Philippines Teams 2024 list. In previous years, Atty. Amante was recognized by Asian Legal Business as Southeast Asia’s In-House Lawyer of the Year (2023) and Philippines In-House Lawyer of the Year (2016), and the Jollibee Group global legal team was named by the same publication as one of the Top 15 In-House Legal Teams in Asia (2023).

Prior to joining the Jollibee Group, Atty. Amante worked in a listed real estate company and a law firm. She graduated salutatorian from the University of the Philippines College of Law in 2000 and placed 7th in the Philippine Bar Examinations in the same year.

Atty. Amante is the first Global Chief Legal, Ethics, and Compliance Officer of the Jollibee Group, where she leads a team of 33 lawyers and paralegals with offices in six countries.