Biography
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 The Dow Chemical Company, Cisco, Budget Rental, Occidental Chemical, Taisei, TeleTech, AT&T, Agilent, Steelcase and Intel, among others. His 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.
Ramon is a distinguished figure in legal circles, consistently earning accolades from prominent legal directories, including top dispute resolution lawyer by Legal 500 Asia Pacific, and an Eminent Practitioner by Chambers Asia Pacific. He’s been a litigation star in Benchmark Litigation and a leading lawyer in Asialaw. His continued presence on Asia Business Law Journal’s A-List and the In-House Community award in 2022-2023 further cement his reputation.
Practice Focus
Ramon's practice focuses on litigation, alternative dispute resolution, and international arbitration. He handles commercial, civil and appellate litigation.
Representative Legal Matters
- Represent an information technology company in a dispute involving services rendered under a contract to supply the Southeast Asian Games Information System, worth around USD 3 million.
- Represent and advise a leading Philippine life insurance company in criminal litigation filed by an insurance agent.
- Represent two of the world's leading chemical companies in several cases filed by many thousands of banana plantation workers for the injuries they allegedly suffered from certain pesticides, which together constitute possibly the biggest damages/tort suits ever filed in the Philippines.
- Represent a Philippine subsidiary of a European sheet metals, industrial equipment and tools manufacturing company in a lease dispute with the owner-lessor of eight buildings leased by the client for its manufacturing plant.
- Represent an international insurance brokering and financial services corporation based in the UK in litigation against a Philippine government-owned and controlled corporation to enforce a reinsurance agreement.
- Advise and represent an American multinational oil and gas exploration and production company in a suit filed by an international environmental organization before the Philippines Commission on Human Rights, seeking to hold many of the world's largest oil, coal, cement, and mining companies liable for climate change-caused damages supposedly arising out of their carbon emissions.
- Represent a decedent's estate in the probate of a foreign will and assist in the ancillary administration of properties in the Philippines.
- Frequently handle the settlement of estates of high net worth individuals.
Professional Honors
Leading Individual for Dispute Resolution, The Legal 500 Asia Pacific, 2016 to 2024
Eminent Practitioner for Dispute Resolution, Chambers Asia Pacific, 2014 to 2024
Eminent Practitioner for Dispute Resolution: Arbitration, Chambers Asia Pacific, 2014 to 2024
Litigation Star for Commercial and Transactions, Benchmark Litigation, 2019 to 2024
Litigation Star for International Arbitration, Benchmark Litigation, 2019 to 2024
Elite Practitioner for Dispute Resolution & Litigation, asialaw Leading Lawyers, 2019 to 2024
A-List Lawyer, The Philippines' Top 100 Lawyers, Asia Business Law Journal, 2018 to 2023
Legal 500 Private Practice Arbitration Powerlist - South East Asia Region, 2022 to 2023
Commended External Counsel of the Year (Philippines), In-House Community, 2022-2023
Professional Associations and Memberships
Integrated Bar of the Philippines - Member
International Bar Association - Member
New York State Bar Association - Member
American Bar Association - Member
Admissions
Philippines (1991)
New York~United States (1986)
Virginia~United States (1980)
District of Columbia~United States (1979)
Education
Georgetown University (J.D.) (1979)
University of South Florida (B.S.) (1976)
Languages
English
Filipino