SPECIAL POWER OF ATTORNEY

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS:

I, Racquel B. Singson, Filipino, of legal age, with postal address c/o 2604a East Tower Philippine Stock Exchange Center, Ortigas Pasig, do hereby name, appoint and constitute the DEFENSOR, LANTION, BRIONES, VILLAMOR and TOLENTINO LAW OFFICES or any of its lawyers, associates and representatives with principal office at Suite 2604-A, East Tower, Philippine Stock Exchange Centre Exchange Road, Ortigas Business Center, to be my true and lawful attorney-in-fact, to appear for and on my behalf, and to represent me, in Criminal Case No. GL-Q-12- 176290 entitled “People of the Philippines vs. Racquel B. Singson” pending before the Regional Trial Court of Quezon City, Branch 92, in all hearings and proceedings therein, including the mandatory conference and hearing, as well as the pre-trial conference/preliminary conference/conciliation proceedings of said case, and particularly the following:

(i) Enter into compromise agreement or settlement with the opposing party;

(ii) Submit to alternative modes of dispute resolution;

(iii) Agree to the simplification of issues and the limitation of the number of witnesses;

(iv) Determine the necessity and desirability of amendment of pleadings, the advisability of a preliminary reference of the issues to a commissioner, the propriety of rendering judgment on the pleadings or summary judgment, and the necessity and advisability of suspending the proceedings;

(v) Obtain admission or stipulations of facts and documents;

(vi) Agree on such other matters and considerations as may aid in the prompt disposition of the action.

HEREBY GIVING AND GRANTING unto our said attorney full power and authority whatsoever requisite or necessary or proper to be done in or about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as we might or could lawfully do if personally present (with power of substitution and revocation), and hereby ratifying and confirming all that our said attorney shall do or cause to be done under and by virtue of these presents.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, we have hereunto affixed our signature on this _______ day of August 2013, at __________________ Philippines.

Racquel B. Singson

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

Republic of the Philippines}______________________ } S.s.

BEFORE ME, on this _____ day of August 2013, in _____________, personally appeared Racquel B. Singson, exhibiting to me his driver’s license with no ____________, known to me to be the same person who executed the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that the same is her free and voluntary act and deed.

WITNESS MY HAND AND SEAL on the date and place first above written.

Doc. No.___________;Page No. __________;Book No. __________;Series of 2013.