Ramon S. Esguerra

Senior Partner
Chairman, Executive Committee
Admitted to Philippine Bar – 1980

PRACTICE AREAS

• Litigation
• Estate and Corporate Law
• Criminal Law
• Intellectual Property Law
• Real Property
• Administrative Law

• Managing Partner, Esguerra & Blanco Law Offices, March 2004 – Present
• Senior Partner and Executive Committee Member, Castillo Laman Tan Pantaleon & San Jose Law Offices, January 1999 – February 2004
• Partner and Intellectual Property Department Co-Head, Castillo Laman Tan Pantaleon & San Jose Law Offices, 1986 – 1992, 1995 – 1998
• Senior Associate, Castillo Laman Tan Pantaleon & San Jose Law Offices, 1984 – 1985
• Associate, Castillo Laman Tan Pantaleon & San Jose Law Offices, 1981 – 1983
• Associate, Blanco Law Firm, 1980 – 1981
• Graduate Research Assistant, University of the Philippines Law Center, 1976 – 1981
• Legal Researcher, Virginio I. Jarin Law Offices, 1973 – 1979

• Undersecretary, Department of Justice, February 1992 – March 1995
• Ex-Officio Director and Designee, Housing and Land Use Regulatory Board, 1992 – March 1995
• Ex-Officio Director and Designee, Dangerous Drugs Board, 1992 – March 1995
• Head Secretariat, Presidential Committee on the Grant of Bail, Pardon or Temporary Release, July 1992 – March 1995
• Acting Chairman, Presidential Human Rights Committee, October 1993 – March 1995
• Acting Chairman, Board of Pardons and Parole, February 1992 – September 1992

• Advisory Council, Intellectual Property Association of the Philippines, Inc., 2014 – Present
• Director, Asia Pacific Bar Association, 2008 – Present
• Trustee and Corporate Secretary, Philippine National Police Foundation, Inc., 2015 – Present
• National Director, Commission on Integrity and Bar Discipline, July 2015 – June 2017
• Governor, Integrated Bar of the Philippines, Southern Luzon Region, 2013 – 2015
• Chairman of the Board of Directors, Intellectual Property Association of the Philippines, Inc., 2012 – 2014
• Councilor, Asian Intellectual Property Association, 2003 – 2012
• National Group President, Philippines, Asian Patent Attorneys Association, 2010 – 2012
• President, Intellectual Property Association of the Philippines, Inc., 2009 – 2011
• Director, Integrated Bar of the Philippines, Cavite Chapter, 2009 – 2011
• General Counsel, Integrated Bar of the Philippines, July 2011 – December 2011
• Commissioner, Commission on Bar Discipline, Integrated Bar of the Philippines, June 2010 – June 2011
• Director, Licensing Executives Society of the Philippines, Inc., 2002 – 2009
• President, Licensing Executives Society of the Philippines, Inc., 2008 – 2009
• Member, Trained Arbitrator, Philippine Dispute Resolution, Inc.
• Member, Sub-committee on the Revisions of the Rules of Court, Supreme Court of the Philippines
• Member, Sub-committee on the Revisions of the Rules on Intellectual Property Rights, Supreme Court of the Philippines
• Member, Sub-committee on the Revisions of the 1997 Rules of Civil Procedure, Supreme Court of the Philippines

• Professorial Lecturer, University of the Philippines College of Law, 2001 – 2009; 2017 – Present
• Professorial Lecturer, San Sebastian College Institute of Civil Law, 1995 – 1996; 2017
• Professorial Lecturer, Centro Escolar University School of Law and Jurisprudence, 2012 – Present
• Professorial Lecturer, Lyceum of the Philippines University College of Law, 2010 – Present
• Professorial Lecturer, De La Salle University, 2014 – 2018
• Professorial Lecturer, Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila Graduate School of Law, 2009 – 2015
• Professorial Lecturer, University of Santo Tomas Faculty of Civil Law, 2018
• Lecturer, Bar Review Institute, U.P. Law Center
• Lecturer, Mandatory Continuing Legal Education, U.P. Law Center
• Lecturer, Mandatory Continuing Legal Education, Integrated Bar of the Philippines
• 2013 Bar Examiner in Political and International Law
• Member, University of the Philippines College of Law Bar Faculty Committee

• Bachelor of Laws, University of the Philippines, 1979
• Bachelor of Arts in Economics, University of Santo Tomas, 1975
• Graduated No. 5, University of the Philippines Law Class of 1979
• Chancellor, Order of the Purple Feather, University of the Philippines College of Law Honor Society
• Scholar, University of the Philippines Law Alumni Association
• Participant, Summer Institute on American Law, School of Law, Wisconsin University, July – August 1986
• Commended External Counsel of the Year, In-House Community, Asian-Mena Counsel, 2018-2019
• Recognized as Intellectual Property Eminent Practitioner, Chambers and Partners, 2019
• Recognized as Leading Lawyer in Dispute Resolution and Intellectual Property, Chambers and Partners, 2012; 2014 – 2015; 2018 – 2019
• Recognized as Client Choice for Litigation, Client Choice, 2013 & 2016

• Delegate for Asia, International Confederation of United Grand Lodges (ICUGL), Paris, France
• Soberano Gran Comendador, Supremo Consejo Del Grado 33 Para Filipinas, 2013 – 2017
• Gran Maestre, Gran Logia Nacional de Filipinas, 2010 – 2015
• Worshipful Master, Logia Magdalo No. 79 under the Auspices of the Supremo Consejo de Grado 33 Para Filipinas, 1984 – 1988
• Founding Member and Vice-Chairman, Movement of Attorneys for Brotherhood, Integrity and Nationalism, Inc., 1986 – 1992
• Member, Rotary Club Makati Central.
• Dweller, Elim Catholic Charismatic Community.