Practice areas
Arbitration & ADR; data protection; e-commerce, fintech, blockchain & cryptos;IP; litigation
Introduction
Enrique V Dela Cruz Jr is a senior partner and data protection officer at DivinaLaw.
He is also the head of the firm’s arbitration, data privacy, IP and fintech groups. He has more than 20 years of experience in litigation, arbitration, public-private partnership (PPP) contracts and election law practice.
He is a member of the London Court of International Arbitration-Asia Users Council and an accredited arbitrator of the Construction Industry Arbitration Commission (CIAC). In 2023, he was appointed as a member of the Advisory Council of the Office for Alternative Dispute Resolution (OADR) under the Department of Justice.
He graduated from the University of Santo Tomas, Manila with a degree in AB legal management (cum laude) in 1996, and a juris doctor degree (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. He also completed a single masters course in international trade law from the University College London in the UK. In March 2020, he was awarded a fintech certification by Harvard University.
Currently, he teaches law at the University of Santo Tomas, Manila. He is also a lecturer at the University of the Philippines (UP) Centre for Local and Regional Governance. He was a municipal councillor of Baliwag, Bulacan from 2001 to 2010 and a board member of the province of Bulacan from 2010 to 2019.
He was named among Asia Business Law Journal’s Top 100 Lawyers in the Philippines from 2020 to 2023. He is also among the Philippines Client Choice Lawyers of Asian Legal Business for 2022. He was recognised as a Commended External Counsel of the Year (2022-2023) by the In-House Community Association of the Philippines.
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