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                    [ArticleID] => 317856
                    [Title] => A Sigma Rho fight
                    [Summary] => Coffee shops are abuzz these days about a legal battle among three distinguished lawyers who once formed the respected Raval, Suplico and Lokin law office. 


On one side of the conflict are young Iloilo solon Rolex Suplico and election lawyer Demaree Raval. On the other side is lawyer Luis Lokin, husband of a former sectoral representative, who is reportedly the subject of a Supreme Court sanction initiated by Suplico and Raval.
[DatePublished] => 2006-01-22 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134315 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 302421 [Title] => Smart shuns legal action vs sale of ETPI shares to ISM [Summary] => Smart Communications will no longer pursue a legal action to stop publicly listed ISM Communications Corp.’s recent acquisition of a 17.7-percent stake in Eastern Telecommunications Phils. Inc. (ETPI), but the fight is hardly over, industry sources told The STAR.

"Smart and other mobile phone service industry players can make it very difficult for ISM to survive in this business. Look at how they made it hard for Digitel to interconnect at the beginning," an industry official said.
[DatePublished] => 2005-10-18 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 294117 [Title] => Smart mulls court action over ETPI shares sold to ISM [Summary] => Smart Communications may go to court to assert its right of first refusal over shares in Eastern Telecommunications Phils. Inc. (ETPI) sold by Aerocom Investors and Managers to publicly listed ISM Communications.

Aerocom disposed of its 17.7-percent stake in ETPI to ISM, a company identified with former Trade Minister Roberto Ongpin.
[DatePublished] => 2005-08-30 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 293139 [Title] => ISM bucks Smart bid to stop sale of Aerocom stake in ETPI [Summary] => Attempts by Smart Communications Inc. to stop the sale by Aerocom Investors and Managers of its 17.7-percent stake in Eastern Telecommunications Phils. Inc. (ETPI) to publicly listed ISM Communications Corp., met resistance from the latter which insists that Smart does not have a right of first refusal over the sale.

"Smart does not have a right of first refusal over this transaction," ISM president Eric Recto told The STAR.
[DatePublished] => 2005-08-24 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 292112 [Title] => Smart invokes right of 1st refusal over 17.7% ETPI stake sold to Ongpin group [Summary] => Smart Communications demanded yesterday the exercise of its right of first refusal as a stockholder of Eastern Telecommunications Phils. Inc. (ETPI) on the sale of Aerocom Investors and Managers’ 17.7-percent stake in ETPI to ISM Communications, a group led by former Trade Minister Roberto Ongpin.

The PLDT subsidiary said Aerocom must give Smart and other ETPI stockholders the right of preemption over the sale of its stake in ETPI, a right embodied in the latter’s articles of incorporation.
[DatePublished] => 2005-08-18 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 289259 [Title] => Bobby Ongpin group buys into Extelcom [Summary] => Publicly listed company ISM Communications, identified with former trade minister Roberto Ongpin, has reportedly bought shares in Express Telecommunications (Extelcom) as part of its bid to enter the highly competitive cellular mobile telephone system (CMTS) business in the country currently dominated by Smart Communications and Globe Telecom.
[DatePublished] => 2005-08-01 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 286300 [Title] => Smart opposes sale of 17.7% stake in ETPI to Ongpin group [Summary] => Smart Communications Inc. is reportedly questioning the propriety of the recent sale by Aerocom Investors and Managers Inc. of its 17.7-percent stake in Eastern Telecommunications Phils. Inc. (ETPI) to ISM Communication Corp., a group led by former Trade Minister Roberto Ongpin, The STAR has learned.

ISM, a publicly listed company, has entered into a share-swap agreement with Aerocom for the latter’s 17.7-percent stake in ETPI.
[DatePublished] => 2005-07-14 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 96511 [Title] => Aussie group, local partners to buy 67.5% stake in ETPI [Summary] => An Australian group and its Filipino partners are now close to finally acquiring a majority 67.5-percent stake in Eastern Telecommunications Phils. Inc. (ETPI).

AGN Philippines, Inc. (AGNP), a wholly owned subsidiary of Australian Gigahertz Network Pty Ptd., now owns 40 percent of ETPI after AGNP paid $20 million to Aerocom Investors and Managers, Inc. in exchange for the latter’s stake in the company.
[DatePublished] => 2001-03-24 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) ) )
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