PHILIPPINES Trends and Developments
Trends and Developments Contributed by: Ricardo Ma P G Ongkiko, John Christian Joy A Regalado and Ma Patricia B Paz-Jacoba SyCip Salazar Hernandez & Gatmaitan
SyCip Salazar Hernandez & Gatmaitan (SyCipLaw) was founded in 1945 and has offices in Makati City (the business centre of the Philippines) Cebu, Davao and the Subic Freeport. SyCipLaw’s litigation depart - ment consists of 13 partners, one of-counsel, two special counsel and 27 associates doing dispute res - olution work to varying degrees. The firm has a wide- ranging litigation practice at virtually all court levels – from the municipal and regional trial courts to the Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court – and with various administrative agencies. SyCipLaw also has a very extensive arbitration practice involving inter -
national arbitrations, commercial and other domes - tic arbitrations, and construction arbitrations. The firm handles some of the most significant, high-value and complex Philippine commercial law disputes, a number of which involve the Philippine government. SyCipLaw represents a wide array of foreign and lo - cal clients, ranging from public utilities to large com - panies in industries such as mining, power, banking, construction, transportation, pharmaceuticals, hos - pitals, airlines, hotels, food manufacturing and dis - tilled spirits.
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Ricardo Ma P G Ongkiko is a senior partner at SyCipLaw and heads its litigation department. He has extensive experience both as arbitrator and arbitration counsel in international and domestic
aviation, banking and finance, construction, distribution, e-commerce, energy, insurance, M&A and real estate sectors. He is a member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and serves as a trustee of the Philippine Institute of Arbitrators. He is also an ICC Young Arbitration and ADR Forum Representative for South Asia.
arbitrations involving commercial and construction disputes. Ricardo has acted in ad hoc arbitrations under the Philippine Alternative Dispute Resolution Act and the UNCITRAL arbitration rules. Ricardo has also acted in institutional arbitrations under the rules of the ICC, SIAC, National Arbitration and Mediation (New York), Philippine Dispute Resolution Center, Inc and Construction Industry Arbitration Commission. He is a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (East Asia branch) and a member of the International Council for Commercial Arbitration.
Ma Patricia B Paz-Jacoba is a partner and member of SyCipLaw’s litigation and arbitration, tax and intellectual property practice groups. She has deep experience in dispute resolution, including domestic/
international institutional and ad hoc arbitrations, and court procedures for arbitration. Patricia has represented clients at all levels of the Philippine judiciary before international and domestic arbitral tribunals, and proceedings before administrative agencies. She is an accredited arbitrator of the Philippine International Center for Conflict Resolution, and is recognised as an ADR practitioner in arbitration by the Philippine Department of Justice – Office for Alternative Dispute Resolution. Patricia is also a member of the Philippine Institute of Arbitrators and the Intellectual Property Association of the Philippines, Inc.
John Christian Joy A Regalado is a partner of SyCipLaw and a member of the firm’s litigation department. He specialises in commercial arbitration, having represented clients in disputes before the ICC’s International Court of
Arbitration, the Philippine Construction Industry Arbitration Commission, ad hoc arbitral tribunals and Philippine courts in applications for interim relief. John’s experience in arbitration covers the
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