Practice areas
Civil, criminal & commercial litigation; election laws; local government &taxation; government contracts & regulations; international commercial arbitration
Introduction
Enrique Dela Cruz Jr is a senior partner and data protection officer at Divina Law. He is also the head of the firm’s arbitration practice, data privacy, IP and fintech group. He has 20 years of experience in litigation, arbitration, public-private partnership contracts, and election law practice. He is currently a member of the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA) — Asia Users Council, and the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP).
He graduated from the University of Santo Tomas in Manila with a degree in AB Legal Management (cum laude) in 1996, and 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 (LLM) in international and comparative business law (with distinction) from the London Metropolitan University in the UK, as a Chevening Scholar of the British Council. He also completed a single master course in international trade from the University College London in the UK. In March 2020, he was awarded a fintech certification by Harvard University, US.
Currently, he teaches law at the University of Santo Tomas in 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 (CLRG). 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 is an incumbent municipal councillor of Baliwag in the province of Bulacan and was previously a board member of Bulacan from 2010 to 2019. He was the former president of the National Movement of Young Legislators of the Philippines, and national treasurer of the Union of Local Authorities of the Philippines. In 2020, he was recognised as one of the Top 100 Lawyers in the Philippines by Asia Business Law Journal.
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