Hanna Dadia
Attorney & CPA
Executive Snapshot
Hanna Dadia is a Philippine-licensed attorney and Certified Public Accountant serving as Associate Counsel at Unified CLO. Her practice spans corporate and transactional support, investigations and litigation support, intellectual property filings, and document management, alongside the tax and regulatory judgment she built over six years in Big Four practice. Within the team, she is also the designated point person on AI governance, a role that has grown alongside the practice area itself.
She is the kind of attorney who is comfortable inside both a contract and a spreadsheet. Where many lawyers hand off the numbers to someone else, Hanna reads the deal and the balance sheet in the same sitting, and brings that same instinct, read the framework carefully, find the gap, say it plainly, to whatever she takes on next. Clients and colleagues get someone who does more than organize the record: she weighs the options and puts forward a recommendation, whether the moment is a commercial deal, a fundraising round, or a dispute that needs a clear plan fast, so the matters she supports keep moving once a decision gets made.
Why Clients Call Hanna
Hanna thinks in both directions at once: what a clause means legally, and what it means financially. That habit, built during her years as a tax professional, means she rarely needs a matter explained to her twice, whether it's a financing document, a compliance question, or a set of closing items that need to come together by end of day.
She approaches problems by getting organized first. Before she drafts or advises, she wants the full picture: every document accounted for, every deadline tracked, every open item visible. From there, she doesn't stop at presenting the facts: she weighs the options and puts forward a recommendation, so the people she works with have something concrete to react to rather than a pile of open questions.
Her communication style is direct and plain-spoken. She translates complex legal and financial concepts into guidance people can actually act on, without unnecessary jargon. Executives and attorneys alike value that she brings discipline and follow-through to matters that require precision, and that she does it calmly, even when the deal is moving fast. That consistency, the same level of care whether a matter is routine or urgent, is what earns her a seat at the table as the stakes go up.
Hanna’s Story
Hanna became a Certified Public Accountant before she became a lawyer, passing the CPA board exam on her first attempt in 2019. As a Big Four tax professional, she supported audits, handled VAT refund matters, conducted tax due diligence, and advised clients across manufacturing, services, retail, and agriculture. That work taught her to read a regulatory requirement or a financial statement the way most people read a sentence: quickly, and for what it actually says. Over her six years at SGV & Co., she also moved from compliance execution into advisory work and, eventually, into managing a team's output rather than only her own, representing clients directly with tax authorities and reviewing commercial contracts for their tax implications, the earliest form of the contract review practice she carries into her legal work today.
It also showed her where her interest really was. She wanted to work on the legal side of the same problems she was already solving from the finance side, so she enrolled in law school at the University of Santo Tomas – Manila, where she was named a Dean's Lister while working full-time. While she studied, she joined Unified CLO as a paralegal, supporting attorneys across corporate, tax, and litigation matters, which meant she was already doing real legal work well before she sat for the Bar.
When she was admitted to the Philippine Bar in February 2026 on her first attempt, she moved into practice as Associate Counsel at Unified CLO. Her current work sits at the intersection of the two disciplines she trained in: she supports corporate and transactional matters for growing businesses alongside Unified CLO's General Counsel and corporate attorneys, and she takes on investigations and litigation support work when matters need careful document review and coordination. That work has increasingly grown from organizing and researching into recommending: she now puts forward options and a clear point of view for the matters she supports, rather than simply presenting the record. That dual background, financial and legal, is what she brings to every matter, whether it's a financing round or a compliance question.
Within that practice, Hanna has become her team's designated point person on AI governance, an area where law, policy, business, and technology meet. She is drawn to it for the same reason she was drawn to tax and later to law: it rewards someone who can read a developing framework carefully, find where the gaps are, and communicate what she finds clearly. She wants that focus to serve clients navigating AI regulation as it develops, both globally and in the Philippines, where the regulatory landscape is still taking shape.
Career Experience
Tax Associate, Global Compliance & Reporting — SGV & Co. (Ernst & Young Philippines) | December 2019 – September 2021
Hanna began her career preparing Philippine tax filings, income tax, VAT, withholding tax, and more, for clients across manufacturing, services, retail, and agriculture. She supported clients through tax audits, working directly with regulators to reconcile figures and defend positions, and conducted due diligence reviews precise enough to hold up under audit scrutiny. It was here that she learned a principle she still applies today: ambiguity isn't the real risk, undocumented ambiguity is.
Tax Associate, Business Tax Advisory — SGV & Co. (Ernst & Young Philippines) | October 2021 – August 2022
Hanna moved from compliance into advisory work, conducting tax studies and helping clients navigate registrations and audits across multiple government agencies. She broadened into drafting a wider range of legal documents, from affidavits to powers of attorney to advisory memoranda, and joined SGV's Green Tax Team, researching how tax incentives shape company behavior. It was the first time her work asked her to think inside a framework that was still being interpreted, rather than simply apply one that had already been settled.
Senior Tax Associate, Business Tax Advisory — SGV & Co. (Ernst & Young Philippines) | September 2022 – July 2023
As a Senior Tax Associate, Hanna took on responsibility for a team's output rather than only her own, managing colleagues on client deliverables and collaborating across service lines on firm-wide projects. She represented clients directly with tax authorities, learning to hold a well-reasoned position under institutional pressure, and began reviewing commercial contracts for their tax implications, the beginning of the contract review practice she now applies at Unified CLO.
Paralegal — Unified CLO, Dallas, TX – Remote | August 2023 – February 2025
While completing her Juris Doctor, Hanna joined Unified CLO as a paralegal, managing the full lifecycle of legal agreements and reviewing documents against the firm's standards. She built a legal repository system that improved contract retrieval and compliance response time, and created standardized onboarding checklists that reduced documentation errors for remote client intake. She also supported government filings, including beneficial ownership reports and entity formation submissions across jurisdictions, well beyond the traditional scope of the role.
Associate Counsel — Unified CLO, Dallas, TX – Remote | February 2025 – Present
Following her admission to the Philippine Bar, Hanna moved into practice at Unified CLO, supporting corporate and transactional matters for fast-growing businesses. She reviews and drafts contracts, manages intellectual property applications and filings across jurisdictions, and provides litigation support through research, document preparation, and due diligence. Increasingly, she also puts forward recommendations and helps formulate strategy options for General Counsel and clients to weigh, moving beyond organizing and researching into shaping the decision itself. She has also become the team's designated point person on AI governance, tracking how AI regulation is developing across jurisdictions and where the current gaps lie.
How Hanna Helps Clients
Hanna's role is to keep matters moving without losing precision. On corporate and transactional work, that means organizing deal documents, tracking closing items, and maintaining structured data rooms so nothing gets missed as a deal accelerates. On investigations and litigation matters, it means the same discipline applied to document review, research, and coordinating the moving pieces of a case, turning a fast-moving situation into a clear plan rather than a scramble.
She works closely with Unified CLO's General Counsel and senior corporate attorneys, taking on the drafting, research, and documentation work, and increasingly the recommendations and strategy options, that let lead attorneys make faster, better-informed decisions. Clients should expect a team member who brings structure to complex matters, communicates clearly, follows through on the details that keep a matter on schedule, and offers a clear point of view on what to do next.
The work she finds most satisfying is exactly this kind: matters that require sustained attention to detail and momentum, where good organization is the difference between a deal that closes smoothly and one that stalls on something that should have been caught earlier. Clients can count on the same level of attention whether the matter is routine or one that puts the business on the line, and that consistency is what builds trust over time. She brings that same close reading and precise communication to her role as the team's designated point person on AI governance, helping clients think through AI regulation as it develops.
Education
Juris Doctor - University of Santo Tomas – Manila, Dean's Lister (2021 – 2025)
Bachelor of Science in Accountancy - Ateneo de Davao University, Magna Cum Laude (2014 – 2019)
Bar Admissions
Integrated Bar of the Philippines (2026)
Philippine Institute of Certified Public Accountants (2019)
Beyond the Bar
Hanna is passionate about access to quality education and believes in empowering communities through knowledge and opportunity. Outside of work, she enjoys spending time in art spaces and museums, watching films, playing tennis, and following K-pop culture.
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Hanna Dadia
Attorney & CPA
Executive Snapshot
Hanna Dadia is a Philippine-licensed attorney and Certified Public Accountant serving as Associate Counsel at Unified CLO. Her practice spans corporate and transactional support, investigations and litigation support, intellectual property filings, and document management, alongside the tax and regulatory judgment she built over six years in Big Four practice. Within the team, she is also the designated point person on AI governance, a role that has grown alongside the practice area itself.
She is the kind of attorney who is comfortable inside both a contract and a spreadsheet. Where many lawyers hand off the numbers to someone else, Hanna reads the deal and the balance sheet in the same sitting, and brings that same instinct, read the framework carefully, find the gap, say it plainly, to whatever she takes on next. Clients and colleagues get someone who does more than organize the record: she weighs the options and puts forward a recommendation, whether the moment is a commercial deal, a fundraising round, or a dispute that needs a clear plan fast, so the matters she supports keep moving once a decision gets made.
Why Clients Call Hanna
Hanna thinks in both directions at once: what a clause means legally, and what it means financially. That habit, built during her years as a tax professional, means she rarely needs a matter explained to her twice, whether it's a financing document, a compliance question, or a set of closing items that need to come together by end of day.
She approaches problems by getting organized first. Before she drafts or advises, she wants the full picture: every document accounted for, every deadline tracked, every open item visible. From there, she doesn't stop at presenting the facts: she weighs the options and puts forward a recommendation, so the people she works with have something concrete to react to rather than a pile of open questions.
Her communication style is direct and plain-spoken. She translates complex legal and financial concepts into guidance people can actually act on, without unnecessary jargon. Executives and attorneys alike value that she brings discipline and follow-through to matters that require precision, and that she does it calmly, even when the deal is moving fast. That consistency, the same level of care whether a matter is routine or urgent, is what earns her a seat at the table as the stakes go up.
Hanna’s Story
Hanna became a Certified Public Accountant before she became a lawyer, passing the CPA board exam on her first attempt in 2019. As a Big Four tax professional, she supported audits, handled VAT refund matters, conducted tax due diligence, and advised clients across manufacturing, services, retail, and agriculture. That work taught her to read a regulatory requirement or a financial statement the way most people read a sentence: quickly, and for what it actually says. Over her six years at SGV & Co., she also moved from compliance execution into advisory work and, eventually, into managing a team's output rather than only her own, representing clients directly with tax authorities and reviewing commercial contracts for their tax implications, the earliest form of the contract review practice she carries into her legal work today.
It also showed her where her interest really was. She wanted to work on the legal side of the same problems she was already solving from the finance side, so she enrolled in law school at the University of Santo Tomas – Manila, where she was named a Dean's Lister while working full-time. While she studied, she joined Unified CLO as a paralegal, supporting attorneys across corporate, tax, and litigation matters, which meant she was already doing real legal work well before she sat for the Bar.
When she was admitted to the Philippine Bar in February 2026 on her first attempt, she moved into practice as Associate Counsel at Unified CLO. Her current work sits at the intersection of the two disciplines she trained in: she supports corporate and transactional matters for growing businesses alongside Unified CLO's General Counsel and corporate attorneys, and she takes on investigations and litigation support work when matters need careful document review and coordination. That work has increasingly grown from organizing and researching into recommending: she now puts forward options and a clear point of view for the matters she supports, rather than simply presenting the record. That dual background, financial and legal, is what she brings to every matter, whether it's a financing round or a compliance question.
Within that practice, Hanna has become her team's designated point person on AI governance, an area where law, policy, business, and technology meet. She is drawn to it for the same reason she was drawn to tax and later to law: it rewards someone who can read a developing framework carefully, find where the gaps are, and communicate what she finds clearly. She wants that focus to serve clients navigating AI regulation as it develops, both globally and in the Philippines, where the regulatory landscape is still taking shape.
Career Experience
Tax Associate, Global Compliance & Reporting — SGV & Co. (Ernst & Young Philippines) | December 2019 – September 2021
Hanna began her career preparing Philippine tax filings, income tax, VAT, withholding tax, and more, for clients across manufacturing, services, retail, and agriculture. She supported clients through tax audits, working directly with regulators to reconcile figures and defend positions, and conducted due diligence reviews precise enough to hold up under audit scrutiny. It was here that she learned a principle she still applies today: ambiguity isn't the real risk, undocumented ambiguity is.
Tax Associate, Business Tax Advisory — SGV & Co. (Ernst & Young Philippines) | October 2021 – August 2022
Hanna moved from compliance into advisory work, conducting tax studies and helping clients navigate registrations and audits across multiple government agencies. She broadened into drafting a wider range of legal documents, from affidavits to powers of attorney to advisory memoranda, and joined SGV's Green Tax Team, researching how tax incentives shape company behavior. It was the first time her work asked her to think inside a framework that was still being interpreted, rather than simply apply one that had already been settled.
Senior Tax Associate, Business Tax Advisory — SGV & Co. (Ernst & Young Philippines) | September 2022 – July 2023
As a Senior Tax Associate, Hanna took on responsibility for a team's output rather than only her own, managing colleagues on client deliverables and collaborating across service lines on firm-wide projects. She represented clients directly with tax authorities, learning to hold a well-reasoned position under institutional pressure, and began reviewing commercial contracts for their tax implications, the beginning of the contract review practice she now applies at Unified CLO.
Paralegal — Unified CLO, Dallas, TX – Remote | August 2023 – February 2025
While completing her Juris Doctor, Hanna joined Unified CLO as a paralegal, managing the full lifecycle of legal agreements and reviewing documents against the firm's standards. She built a legal repository system that improved contract retrieval and compliance response time, and created standardized onboarding checklists that reduced documentation errors for remote client intake. She also supported government filings, including beneficial ownership reports and entity formation submissions across jurisdictions, well beyond the traditional scope of the role.
Associate Counsel — Unified CLO, Dallas, TX – Remote | February 2025 – Present
Following her admission to the Philippine Bar, Hanna moved into practice at Unified CLO, supporting corporate and transactional matters for fast-growing businesses. She reviews and drafts contracts, manages intellectual property applications and filings across jurisdictions, and provides litigation support through research, document preparation, and due diligence. Increasingly, she also puts forward recommendations and helps formulate strategy options for General Counsel and clients to weigh, moving beyond organizing and researching into shaping the decision itself. She has also become the team's designated point person on AI governance, tracking how AI regulation is developing across jurisdictions and where the current gaps lie.
How Hanna Helps Clients
Hanna's role is to keep matters moving without losing precision. On corporate and transactional work, that means organizing deal documents, tracking closing items, and maintaining structured data rooms so nothing gets missed as a deal accelerates. On investigations and litigation matters, it means the same discipline applied to document review, research, and coordinating the moving pieces of a case, turning a fast-moving situation into a clear plan rather than a scramble.
She works closely with Unified CLO's General Counsel and senior corporate attorneys, taking on the drafting, research, and documentation work, and increasingly the recommendations and strategy options, that let lead attorneys make faster, better-informed decisions. Clients should expect a team member who brings structure to complex matters, communicates clearly, follows through on the details that keep a matter on schedule, and offers a clear point of view on what to do next.
The work she finds most satisfying is exactly this kind: matters that require sustained attention to detail and momentum, where good organization is the difference between a deal that closes smoothly and one that stalls on something that should have been caught earlier. Clients can count on the same level of attention whether the matter is routine or one that puts the business on the line, and that consistency is what builds trust over time. She brings that same close reading and precise communication to her role as the team's designated point person on AI governance, helping clients think through AI regulation as it develops.
Education
Juris Doctor - University of Santo Tomas – Manila, Dean's Lister (2021 – 2025)
Bachelor of Science in Accountancy - Ateneo de Davao University, Magna Cum Laude (2014 – 2019)
Bar Admissions
Integrated Bar of the Philippines (2026)
Philippine Institute of Certified Public Accountants (2019)
Beyond the Bar
Hanna is passionate about access to quality education and believes in empowering communities through knowledge and opportunity. Outside of work, she enjoys spending time in art spaces and museums, watching films, playing tennis, and following K-pop culture.
Ready to Talk?
Whether your company needs an experienced General Counsel, strategic legal guidance, or executive-level legal leadership, Unified CLO is ready to help.
Schedule a Conversation
Hanna Dadia
Attorney & CPA
Executive Snapshot
Hanna Dadia is a Philippine-licensed attorney and Certified Public Accountant serving as Associate Counsel at Unified CLO. Her practice spans corporate and transactional support, investigations and litigation support, intellectual property filings, and document management, alongside the tax and regulatory judgment she built over six years in Big Four practice. Within the team, she is also the designated point person on AI governance, a role that has grown alongside the practice area itself.
She is the kind of attorney who is comfortable inside both a contract and a spreadsheet. Where many lawyers hand off the numbers to someone else, Hanna reads the deal and the balance sheet in the same sitting, and brings that same instinct, read the framework carefully, find the gap, say it plainly, to whatever she takes on next. Clients and colleagues get someone who does more than organize the record: she weighs the options and puts forward a recommendation, whether the moment is a commercial deal, a fundraising round, or a dispute that needs a clear plan fast, so the matters she supports keep moving once a decision gets made.
Why Clients Call Hanna
Hanna thinks in both directions at once: what a clause means legally, and what it means financially. That habit, built during her years as a tax professional, means she rarely needs a matter explained to her twice, whether it's a financing document, a compliance question, or a set of closing items that need to come together by end of day.
She approaches problems by getting organized first. Before she drafts or advises, she wants the full picture: every document accounted for, every deadline tracked, every open item visible. From there, she doesn't stop at presenting the facts: she weighs the options and puts forward a recommendation, so the people she works with have something concrete to react to rather than a pile of open questions.
Her communication style is direct and plain-spoken. She translates complex legal and financial concepts into guidance people can actually act on, without unnecessary jargon. Executives and attorneys alike value that she brings discipline and follow-through to matters that require precision, and that she does it calmly, even when the deal is moving fast. That consistency, the same level of care whether a matter is routine or urgent, is what earns her a seat at the table as the stakes go up.
Hanna’s Story
Hanna became a Certified Public Accountant before she became a lawyer, passing the CPA board exam on her first attempt in 2019. As a Big Four tax professional, she supported audits, handled VAT refund matters, conducted tax due diligence, and advised clients across manufacturing, services, retail, and agriculture. That work taught her to read a regulatory requirement or a financial statement the way most people read a sentence: quickly, and for what it actually says. Over her six years at SGV & Co., she also moved from compliance execution into advisory work and, eventually, into managing a team's output rather than only her own, representing clients directly with tax authorities and reviewing commercial contracts for their tax implications, the earliest form of the contract review practice she carries into her legal work today.
It also showed her where her interest really was. She wanted to work on the legal side of the same problems she was already solving from the finance side, so she enrolled in law school at the University of Santo Tomas – Manila, where she was named a Dean's Lister while working full-time. While she studied, she joined Unified CLO as a paralegal, supporting attorneys across corporate, tax, and litigation matters, which meant she was already doing real legal work well before she sat for the Bar.
When she was admitted to the Philippine Bar in February 2026 on her first attempt, she moved into practice as Associate Counsel at Unified CLO. Her current work sits at the intersection of the two disciplines she trained in: she supports corporate and transactional matters for growing businesses alongside Unified CLO's General Counsel and corporate attorneys, and she takes on investigations and litigation support work when matters need careful document review and coordination. That work has increasingly grown from organizing and researching into recommending: she now puts forward options and a clear point of view for the matters she supports, rather than simply presenting the record. That dual background, financial and legal, is what she brings to every matter, whether it's a financing round or a compliance question.
Within that practice, Hanna has become her team's designated point person on AI governance, an area where law, policy, business, and technology meet. She is drawn to it for the same reason she was drawn to tax and later to law: it rewards someone who can read a developing framework carefully, find where the gaps are, and communicate what she finds clearly. She wants that focus to serve clients navigating AI regulation as it develops, both globally and in the Philippines, where the regulatory landscape is still taking shape.
Career Experience
Tax Associate, Global Compliance & Reporting — SGV & Co. (Ernst & Young Philippines) | December 2019 – September 2021
Hanna began her career preparing Philippine tax filings, income tax, VAT, withholding tax, and more, for clients across manufacturing, services, retail, and agriculture. She supported clients through tax audits, working directly with regulators to reconcile figures and defend positions, and conducted due diligence reviews precise enough to hold up under audit scrutiny. It was here that she learned a principle she still applies today: ambiguity isn't the real risk, undocumented ambiguity is.
Tax Associate, Business Tax Advisory — SGV & Co. (Ernst & Young Philippines) | October 2021 – August 2022
Hanna moved from compliance into advisory work, conducting tax studies and helping clients navigate registrations and audits across multiple government agencies. She broadened into drafting a wider range of legal documents, from affidavits to powers of attorney to advisory memoranda, and joined SGV's Green Tax Team, researching how tax incentives shape company behavior. It was the first time her work asked her to think inside a framework that was still being interpreted, rather than simply apply one that had already been settled.
Senior Tax Associate, Business Tax Advisory — SGV & Co. (Ernst & Young Philippines) | September 2022 – July 2023
As a Senior Tax Associate, Hanna took on responsibility for a team's output rather than only her own, managing colleagues on client deliverables and collaborating across service lines on firm-wide projects. She represented clients directly with tax authorities, learning to hold a well-reasoned position under institutional pressure, and began reviewing commercial contracts for their tax implications, the beginning of the contract review practice she now applies at Unified CLO.
Paralegal — Unified CLO, Dallas, TX – Remote | August 2023 – February 2025
While completing her Juris Doctor, Hanna joined Unified CLO as a paralegal, managing the full lifecycle of legal agreements and reviewing documents against the firm's standards. She built a legal repository system that improved contract retrieval and compliance response time, and created standardized onboarding checklists that reduced documentation errors for remote client intake. She also supported government filings, including beneficial ownership reports and entity formation submissions across jurisdictions, well beyond the traditional scope of the role.
Associate Counsel — Unified CLO, Dallas, TX – Remote | February 2025 – Present
Following her admission to the Philippine Bar, Hanna moved into practice at Unified CLO, supporting corporate and transactional matters for fast-growing businesses. She reviews and drafts contracts, manages intellectual property applications and filings across jurisdictions, and provides litigation support through research, document preparation, and due diligence. Increasingly, she also puts forward recommendations and helps formulate strategy options for General Counsel and clients to weigh, moving beyond organizing and researching into shaping the decision itself. She has also become the team's designated point person on AI governance, tracking how AI regulation is developing across jurisdictions and where the current gaps lie.
How Hanna Helps Clients
Hanna's role is to keep matters moving without losing precision. On corporate and transactional work, that means organizing deal documents, tracking closing items, and maintaining structured data rooms so nothing gets missed as a deal accelerates. On investigations and litigation matters, it means the same discipline applied to document review, research, and coordinating the moving pieces of a case, turning a fast-moving situation into a clear plan rather than a scramble.
She works closely with Unified CLO's General Counsel and senior corporate attorneys, taking on the drafting, research, and documentation work, and increasingly the recommendations and strategy options, that let lead attorneys make faster, better-informed decisions. Clients should expect a team member who brings structure to complex matters, communicates clearly, follows through on the details that keep a matter on schedule, and offers a clear point of view on what to do next.
The work she finds most satisfying is exactly this kind: matters that require sustained attention to detail and momentum, where good organization is the difference between a deal that closes smoothly and one that stalls on something that should have been caught earlier. Clients can count on the same level of attention whether the matter is routine or one that puts the business on the line, and that consistency is what builds trust over time. She brings that same close reading and precise communication to her role as the team's designated point person on AI governance, helping clients think through AI regulation as it develops.
Education
Juris Doctor - University of Santo Tomas – Manila, Dean's Lister (2021 – 2025)
Bachelor of Science in Accountancy - Ateneo de Davao University, Magna Cum Laude (2014 – 2019)
Bar Admissions
Integrated Bar of the Philippines (2026)
Philippine Institute of Certified Public Accountants (2019)
Beyond the Bar
Hanna is passionate about access to quality education and believes in empowering communities through knowledge and opportunity. Outside of work, she enjoys spending time in art spaces and museums, watching films, playing tennis, and following K-pop culture.
Ready to Talk?
Whether your company needs an experienced General Counsel, strategic legal guidance, or executive-level legal leadership, Unified CLO is ready to help.
Schedule a Conversation
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