Practice areas

Commercial litigation; dispute resolution; industrials, manufacturing & transportation; international arbitration; investigations & white-collar crime

Introduction

Ramon Quisumbing is the managing partner of Quisumbing Torres and a member of its dispute resolution practice group. He is also a member of the firm’s industrial, manufacturing and transportation industry group. He has represented numerous multinational companies including AT&T, The Dow Chemical Company, Cisco, Budget Rental, Occidental Chemical, Taisei, TeleTech, Agilent, Steelcase and Intel, among others. Quisumbing’s practice focuses on litigation, alternative dispute resolution, and international arbitration. He handles commercial, civil and appellate litigation and is frequently involved in the settlement of estates of high net-worth individuals.

Quisumbing has been consistently ranked as a leading individual by prominent legal directories. From 2016 to 2023, he was recognised as one of the top dispute resolution attorneys in the Legal 500 Asia Pacific, and an eminent dispute resolution lawyer and arbitrator in Chambers Asia Pacific. He was also a litigation star from 2019 to 2022 in Benchmark Litigation for commercial transactions and international arbitration, and a leading dispute resolution attorney in Asialaw Leading Lawyers for dispute resolution and litigation. He is also among Asia Business Law Journal’s A-List of the country’s top 100 lawyers from 2018 to the present.

Under his leadership, Quisumbing Torres has been acknowledged and highly ranked by leading regional legal directories. The firm won “Philippine Firm of the Year” at the Euromoney Asia Women in Business Law Awards 2022. It was also named one of the best overall law firms in Asia Business Law Journal’s Philippines Law Firm Awards 2022/2023.

The firm has been cited by Asian Legal Business as one of the best law firms to work for in the Philippines for eight years (2013-16, 2018-20 and 2022). In addition, the Legal 500 Asia Pacific named Quisumbing Torres the Philippine Law Firm of the Year 2020-2021 at their inaugural Southeast Asia Awards.

Quisumbing is a member of the Integrated Bar of the Philippines, the International Bar Association, the American Bar Association, and the New York State Bar Association.

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