Practice areas

Arbitration & ADR; data privacy; e-commerce, fintech, blockchain & cryptos; IP; litigation

Introduction

Enrique V Dela Cruz Jr is a senior partner and data protection officer at DivinaLaw. He is also the head of the firm’s arbitration, data privacy, IP and fintech groups. He has more than 20 years of experience in litigation, arbitration, public-private partnership contracts, and election law practice. He is a member of the London Court of International Arbitration-Asia Users Council, the International Association of Privacy Professionals, and is an accredited construction arbitrator of the Construction Industry Arbitration Commission.

He graduated from the University of Santo Tomas with a degree in AB legal management (cum laude) in 1996, and a bachelor of laws (with honours) in 2000. In 2001 he earned a master in public management from the Ateneo School of Government in Manila. In 2002, he completed an executive program on leadership and public policy at the John F Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. In May 2005, he obtained his master of laws in international and comparative business law (with distinction) from the London Metropolitan University as a Chevening Scholar. He also completed a Single Masters Course in international trade from the University College London. In March 2020, he was awarded a fintech certification by Harvard University.

Currently, he teaches law at the University of Santo Tomas, Manila, and the Bulacan State University – College of Law. He is also a lecturer at the University of the Philippines (UP) Centre for Local and Regional Governance. He is also a lecturer at the Bar Review Institute of the UP Law Centre and a member of its committee of experts in political law. He was a municipal councillor of Baliwag, Bulacan from 2019 to 2022 and was a board member of the province of Bulacan from 2010 to 2019. He was formerly president of the National Movement of Young Legislators of the Philippines and national treasurer of the Union of Local Authorities of the Philippines.

He has been named among Asia Business Law Journal’s Top 100 Lawyers in the Philippines since 2020. He is also among the Philippines Client Choice Lawyers of Asian Legal Business for 2022.

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