Led by Arbitrators Simeon V. Marcelo and Elmar B. Galacio, the firm’s Arbitration and Alternative Dispute Resolution (“ADR”) team has more than three decades’ worth of experience in representing clients from different sectors of the economy.
The firm provides exceptional client representation in both domestic and international arbitration, ensuring that our clients are guided and properly informed to make sound and cost-efficient decisions in every step of the dispute resolution process.
With a pool of accredited and highly trained arbitrators and counsel, especially in disputes involving commercial and construction matters, the firm is equipped to assist and represent clients in the various forms and stages of ADR. Our ADR team provides a wide range of services, from drafting arbitration agreements to proactively securing settlements of disputes. Moreover, the firm provides vigorous representation before ad hoc or institutional arbitral tribunals and courts to secure specific reliefs, such as interim measures of protection, recognition, vacation, enforcement and execution of arbitral awards, as well as appellate representation.