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Cruz Marcelo & Tenefrancia Partners Cited in Benchmark Litigation 2020 Ranking

Benchmark Litigation recognized four Cruz Marcelo & Tenefrancia partners in its 2020 ranking of the Philippines’s leading practitioners in the field of litigation and dispute resolution. Name partner Simeon V. Marcelo and senior partners John Jerico L. Balisnomo and Miguel U. Silos were cited as Litigation Stars, while Junior Partner Jon Anton Daryl Y. Chua was cited as a Future Litigation Star.

Benchmark Litigation exclusively covers the litigation and disputes markets and aims to provide law firm and lawyer rankings and analysis of the most important cases and firm developments. It is a guide to the world’s leading litigation firms and lawyers based on extensive interviews with litigators, dispute resolution specialists and their clients.

Mr. Marcelo is well known as one of the country’s top litigators. His mastery of both the technical and substantive aspects of the law earned him the reputation of being a court general and strategist.

Mr. Balisnomo heads Cruz Marcelo & Tenefrancia’s Litigation & Dispute Resolution Department. He specializes in civil, criminal, regulatory, and tax litigation, as well as appellate practice. He has represented clients in every level of the judiciary and every administrative venue.

Mr. Silos is a Senior Partner in the Litigation & Dispute Resolution Department. He has successfully litigated cases in the areas of civil, labor, commercial & criminal litigation, bank fraud, debt restructuring, international trade, taxation as well as arbitration and alternative dispute resolution.

Mr. Chua is a partner in the Litigation and Dispute Resolution Department. He has extensive experience in commercial, corporate and criminal litigation, public policy litigation, tax litigation and the prosecution and defense of white-collar crimes.

The electronic version of the Benchmark Litigation Ranking- Philippine Edition is available at: https://bit.ly/3fh1NfX