Our Lawyers
Partners and senior associates with credentials across trial advocacy, CIAC construction arbitration, corporate counsel, and regulatory practice.
Our Lawyers
Partners and senior associates with credentials across trial advocacy, CIAC construction arbitration, corporate counsel, and regulatory practice.
Managing Partner
Demetrio C. Custodio Jr.
Managing Partner
Atty. Custodio leads the firm's present partnership. He represents clients in trial and appellate work across civil, corporate, and regulatory matters.
Under his leadership, the firm has continued to be recognized in the Asia Pacific Legal 500 as among the country's top dispute resolution practices — maintaining the standard set by the firm's founding partner.
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Partner
Zenaida Ongkiko-Acorda
Partner — Arbitration and Dispute Resolution
Atty. Ongkiko-Acorda anchors the firm's arbitration and dispute resolution practice. An accredited arbitrator with the Construction Industry Arbitration Commission (CIAC), she has acted as counsel and arbitrator across a range of construction and commercial arbitration matters.
Her dual role as both counsel and arbitrator provides the firm with a perspective that sharpens strategy and accelerates outcomes for clients in arbitral proceedings.
[FIRM TO SUPPLY: detailed education, bar admission year, PDRCI accreditation, notable representations, and memberships]
Practice coverage
Areas of specialization across the partnership
The combined expertise of the firm's partners and associates.
The firm
Two generations of trial advocacy. One unbroken standard.
From the founding practice of Mario E. Ongkiko to the present partnership — recognized across multiple editions of the Asia Pacific Legal 500.