Nikki Sarah V. Jimeno
Junior Partner
With extensive legal experience developed over more than a decade of practice, Nikki Sarah V. Jimeno advises individuals, corporations, and institutions on a broad range of legal matters, with particular focus on Corporate Law, Labor and Employment, Civil Law, Contracts, and Family Law. Her practice combines extensive experience in private practice with senior in-house legal leadership for multinational and Philippine corporations, enabling her to provide practical, business-oriented legal solutions while effectively managing complex legal risks.
Nikki is recognized for her strategic approach to contract negotiation, corporate governance, risk management, and dispute resolution. She has successfully represented clients before courts and government agencies, negotiated high-value commercial transactions, and advised on major infrastructure, energy, and transportation projects across multiple jurisdictions. As a law professor and continuing legal education lecturer, she is likewise known for her exceptional legal research, persuasive legal writing skills, and ability to translate complex legal issues into clear, practical advice that empowers clients to make informed decisions.
AREAS OF PRACTICE
Labor Law
Obligations and Contracts
Family Law
Corporate Law
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
Master of Law in Comparative Constitutional Law
Central European University, Budapest, Hungary, 2017-2018
Juris Doctor
University of the Philippines, 2004-2008
Bachelor of Arts in Communication
Ateneo de Manila University, 2000-2004
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Private Practice
Nikki began her legal career in private practice, spending over a decade representing individuals and corporate clients in litigation, labor disputes, civil and family law matters, contract negotiations, and commercial transactions.
Corporate and Infrastructure Counsel
As Legal Counsel for a diversified Philippine holding company, she advised on public-private partnerships, infrastructure projects, corporate governance, regulatory compliance, joint ventures, and major commercial transactions.
Leadership in Energy Sector
Nikki later served as Chief Legal Counsel for a company in the LPG sector, where she led the legal department and advised senior management on governance, strategic transactions, employment matters, regulatory compliance, and government relations.
Global Engineering and Infrastructure
She currently provides legal support to a global engineering and consulting company involved in large public projects across North America.
Cross-Border Commercial Practice
Her present practice focuses on complex commercial agreements, risk management, cross-border legal matters, and strategic advice for high-value infrastructure projects.
Legal Education
Since 2012, Nikki has served as a Professorial Lecturer, teaching civil law subjects, legal writing, and legal research.
Continuing Legal Education and Advocacy
As an MCLE lecturer, she regularly speaks on advocacy, persuasive legal writing, gender and the law, and human rights.
Practical and Strategic Legal Counsel
Nikki’s multidisciplinary experience enables her to provide commercially sound, practical, and strategic legal solutions tailored to each client’s objectives.
PUBLICATIONS & SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
Recipient of the Roberto Sabido Award for Best Legal Paper for The Philippine Writ of Habeas Data: A Paradigm Shift from a Basic Privacy Protection Law to a Human Rights Tool
2008
Published author in the inaugural Law Journal of the Centro Escolar University School of Law and Jurisprudence.
Wrote a thesis paper on Decentralization in the Philippines : Lessons From Malaysia and Nepal’s Experiences with Federalism (2018) which is currently in the library of Central European University in Budapest, Hungary.
2018
Regular contributing writer for the legal column “According to The Law” on SmartParenting.com.ph
2012–2017
Mandatory Continuing Legal Education (MCLE) lectures on Advocacy and Persuasive Legal Writing and Gender-Based Stereotypes, Victim-Blaming, and the Philippines’ Obligations under the CEDAW.
Resource Speaker for Malvar, Batangas, Talakayang Bayan: Kababaihan at ang Aming mga Karapatan.
Closing Speaker, Global Peace Women Leadership Exchange 2016 in Seoul, South Korea.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS & AFFILIATIONS
UP Women Lawyers’ Circle (WILOCI)
University of the Philippines, Women in Law Organization
Professorial Lecturer for the CEU School of Law and Jurisprudence
Professorial Lecturer for the Master of Laws Program of Saint Louis University
AWARDS & RECOGNITIONS
Roberto Sabido Award for Best Legal Paper; “The Philippine Writ of Habeas Data: A Paradigm Shift from a Basic Privacy Protection Law to a Human Rights Tool”
2008
Recipient of the Central European University Budapest Foundation's University Master's Excellence Scholarship
