President and Editor

Ignatius Michael “Mickey” Ingles specializes in sports and tax law. He is considered the leading sports lawyer in the Philippines and in South East Asia.

​His work in sports law is extensive. He has represented and advised Filipino, British, and Japanese professional football players both locally in the National Labor Relations Commission and the Court of Appeals and internationally with the FIFA Dispute Resolution Chamber. He has also advised professional basketball players in local tax and labor issues and international sports law matters such as doping, immigration, and visa issues. He currently represents a professional athlete in a cybercrime case with the National Bureau of Investigation and is working with professional athletes of a certain sport to establish a players association.

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Mickey's sports law experience is also not limited to professional athletes. He has helped various national athletes in a wide array of issues and currently serves as the legal counsel of the Philippine Olympic Committee's Athletes Commission. He has also advised national sports associations in their relations with counterpart international sports federations. He also sits in the Committee of Sports Arbitration of the Philippine Dispute Resolution Center, Inc.

​His work in sports law has also extended to commercial matters. He has helped professional athletes with endorsements with international brands, personal brand protection through intellectual property advice, and contract review with international player-agents and teams. He also sits as counsel for a signature apparel-and-shoe deal for a local brand with a professional athlete. He also represents an international sports federation in its right protection program for a world sports event.

​Aside from his sports law practice, his sports law work involves teaching and writing. He teaches Emerging Issues in Sports Law in the Ateneo Law School, the only sports law-dedicated course in the country. He is the author of Laws for Sports and the Sporty, the definitive textbook on Philippine sports law. He is also the editor-in-chief of Batas Sportiva, the Philippines’ only sports law blog, and has written various sports law articles for Rappler.com and Spin.ph. His journal articles on sports law have been published both in the Philippines and the United States.

​He also contributes in the international sports law scene. He sits in the editorial board of LawInSport. He regularly joins sports law conferences, such as the International Forum on Sports Law in the UK and the Sports Lawyers Association Conference, where he also presented a paper on sports unions in 2019. In 2020, he contributed the Philippine Sports Law section for the International Encyclopedia of Laws - Sports Law by Kluwer Law International B.V.

He obtained his Master of Law (LL.M.) from the Georgetown Law Center in 2016. He graduated salutatorian from the Ateneo Law School in 2012 where he was also named the Most Distinguished Graduate.

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He ranked 1st in the 2012 Philippine Bar Examinations.

​He is a full-time professor in the Ateneo Law School where he currently teaches Constitutional Law, Emerging Issues in Sports Law, and Artificial Intelligence, Robots, and the Law. He previously served as an adjunct professor for Taxation Law in the Far Eastern University Institute of Law. His academic work extends to legal publications as has also written on various legal topics such as robotics and sports law for the Marquette Sports Law Review, the Georgetown Law Journal, and the Ateneo Law Journal.

​Mickey is also a licensed attorney in the State of New York.

He was the team captain of the Ateneo Men's Football Team which won three straight UAAP championships from 2004-2006.

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Corporate Secretary

Tiffany Kim R. Maglunog is currently an Associate of ILC Law having been in practice since 2010. She handles the Firm’s corporate concerns including but not limited to contract creation and review. She also handles estate planning and settlement, and a wide range of land-related concerns.

Kim sits as corporate secretary and/or director in various entities engaged in manufacturing and related services within the PEZA Special Economic Zones, education, water utility and other industries.

She represents clients before the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Philippine Economic Zone Authority (PEZA), Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR), Registry of Deeds (RD), and Housing and Land Use Regulatory Board (HLURB).

In 2009, she obtained her law degree from the San Beda College of Law and is currently a licensed Real Estate Broker having successfully passed the licensure exam in 2016. She graduated cum laude with a degree in Political Science from the University of the Philippines - Manila.

Kim is a recreational athlete who loves running, biking, and the outdoors, among others.

Treasurer and Editor

Alexa Monica P. Dabao is the Treasurer of Sports Law ILC and the Editor of Sports Law ILC Publications. As one of the few female sports lawyers in the Philippines, she is an associate of the Law Firm of Ingles Laurel Calderon (ILC Law), specializing in sports, corporate, foreign investment, and tax law matters.

She is also a certified Sports Mediator and Commercial Arbitrator at the Philippine Dispute Resolution Center, Inc. (PDRCI), where she serves in the Sports Arbitration Committee.

In her first two years of legal practice, she co-founded and administered the ILC Cup, the first international sports law moot in the Philippines, serving as an arbitrator for its past two seasons.

In her college days, Alexa was a former student-athlete. She played for the Women’s UAAP Football Team of the Ateneo de Manila University where she obtained her Bachelor of Science in Legal Management in 2015.

In 2020, Alexa was admitted to the Integrated Bar of the Philippines. She graduated from the Ateneo Law School in 2019 with a Juris Doctor degree under the International Law and Development Track.

Alexa was an accomplished mooter for the Ateneo Society of International Law (ASIL), competing in the 2018 & 2019 Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competitions and the 2018 Asia Cup Moot held in Tokyo, Japan. She also served as ASIL’s Secretary-General on her graduating year.

Currently when she’s not in the office, Alexa is on the field playing with her local football club, Superbad FC. She also visits her law school alma mater to coach mooters who represent Ateneo in international moot competitions, such as the Foreign Direct Investment Moot where her team ranked 3rd in the world last 2021. In other days, she serves as a judge or arbitrator for various international moots around the world.

Advocating for the development of sports law in the Philippines, she writes sports law articles for Batas Sportiva and is an active member of an international sports law association based in Lausanne, Switzerland, Women in Sports Law (WISLaw).