“Doing business” includes soliciting orders, service contracts, opening offices, whether called “liaison” offices or branches; appointing representatives or distributors domiciled in the Philippines or who in any calendar year stay in the country for a period or periods totalling one hundred eighty (180) days or more; participating in the management, supervision or control of any domestic business, firm, entity or corporation in the Philippines; and any other act or acts that imply a continuity of commercial dealings or arrangements, and contemplate to that extent the performance of acts or works, or the exercise of some of the functions normally incident to, and in progressive prosecution of, commercial gain or of the purpose and object of the business organization. The phrase “doing business” shall not be deemed to include mere investment as a shareholder by a foreign entity in domestic corporations duly registered to do business, and/or the exercise of rights as such investor; nor having a nominee director or officer to represent its interests in such corporation; nor appointing a representative or distributor domiciled in the Philippines which transacts business in its own name and for its own account. (Sec. 3, Foreign Investments Act of 1991)

• The Business of Money Remittance
• Choosing the Form of Business: Sole Proprietorship, Partnership, Corporation
• Starting a Pawnshop Business
• Special Visa to Generate Employment
• Form for GIS and Fixing the Principal Place of Business
• Non-involvement clause: Prohibiting employees from working for a competing business
• Business of Water in the Philippines