Professional Background

Mr. Silos heads the Litigation & Dispute Resolution Department and co-chairs the Trade and Family Law practice groups.

Mr. Silos has successfully litigated cases in the areas of civil, labor, commercial & criminal litigation, bank fraud, debt restructuring, international trade, taxation and estate disputes. His clients include the world’s most well-known companies in the beverage, financial services, steel, and gaming industries and the US Securities and Exchange Commission. He has litigated for the most prominent local families and industry leaders.

Mr. Silos earned his Juris Doctor degree with honors from the Ateneo de Manila University School of Law in 1998. He holds a Master of Laws degree from the Georgetown University Law Center where he was a fellow in the Institute of International Economic Law. He obtained his Bachelor of Science degree in Business Management at the Ateneo de Manila University where he was a merit scholar.

Mr. Silos has been awarded multiple times as a Leading Individual for Dispute Resolution in the Asia Pacific Legal 500, been named to the Asia Super 50 Disputes Lawyers by Asian Legal Business, a Dispute Resolution Star by Benchmark Litigation and a Global Law Expert for Litigation.

While still a law student, Mr. Silos wrote a thesis which later became a journal publication against the political law doctrine that allowed the condonation of erring public officers. This work was cited as part of Philippine legal history as it served as an authority by the Supreme Court to overturn the 56-year-old condonation doctrine in the precedent-setting case of Caprio-Morales vs. Court of Appeals, G.R. No. 217126 (10 November 2015).

Publications

• “The Need to Re-Examine the Doctrine of Condonation For Misconduct Committed During a Previous Term”, Ateneo Law Journal Vol. 54 (May 2010)
• “A Re-Examination of the Doctrine of Condonation of Public Officers”, Philippine Law Journal Vol. 84 (September 2009)
• “WTO Dispute Settlement: A Brief History”, Business Mirror, 23 June 2009
• “The CDM and wind power: Not just a lot of hot air”, Business Mirror, 22 April 2008
• “Decriminalizing Libel is not the Solution”, Newsbreak Magazine, June 2008

Lectures

• Supreme Court approved lectures in Presentation of Evidence and International Arbitration before the Office of the Government Corporate Counsel
• Lectures on Libel Law before the Economic Journalists Association
• Lectures on Debt Restructuring and Medical Malpractice before various fora