LI.B., A.B., FCIArb, FHKIArb

Lawyer, Law Professor and Commercial Arbitrator
Telefax +(6 32) 362 1867
Cell Nos. 0917 411 4594;  09178362397
E-Mail: maricef@pacific.net.ph

Mario E Valderrama is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (UK) affiliated with its East Asia Branch, defined to mean the geographical area of China, Thailand, Vietnam, Philippines, Korea, Singapore and Indonesia. He was co-opted as Representative for the Philippines in the Branch's Regional Sub-Committee for the year 2000.

He is also a Fellow of the Hong Kong Institute of Arbitrators.

He is an accredited arbitrator for domestic and international disputes in the Philippine Dispute Resolution Center, Inc. (PDRCI) where he is a member of its Board of Trustees, its Deputy Secretary General and concurrently, the co-chair of its Education Committee.

He chaired a domestic arbitral tribunal in PDRCI (PDRCI Case No. 19-20021-SSP) and once served as sole arbitrator in an international commercial dispute by appointment of the International Chamber of Commerce International Court of Arbitration (ICC Case No. 11526/TE, Singapore).

He has been and continues to be a faculty member at the Far Eastern University Institute of Law where he held the JAKA Professorial Seat from 1995 to 1996 and where he handled a wide range of subjects in Civil, Political and Commercial Law as well as subjects in legal practice including Arbitration and ADR Seminar.

He is a former President of the Far Eastern University Law Alumni Association (2000-2001); former President of the Far Eastern University Institute of Law Faculty Club (1996-1997); former Chapter President of the IBP Caloocan-Malabon-Navotas Chapter (1993-1995) and a former chair of the IBP National Committee on Public Services (1997­1999).

As a lawyer, he has extensive practice in litigation, negotiation and contract preparation and administration. For a while, he was an associate attorney in the firm Tanjuatco Oreta Tanjuatco Berenguer and Sanvicente (1987-1989) and was General Counsel in the Philippines for Kumho Construction & Engineering, Inc. (1986-1989), after previously being its Philippine Branch's House Counsel and Administrative Manager (1983­1985).

He obtained his Bachelor of Laws degree from the Far Eastern University Institute of Law in 1982, when he graduated valedictorian and magna cum laude. He was admitted to the Bar in 1983 after placing 12th in the 1982 Bar Examinations with a weighted average of 88.2%.

His professional activities include making presentations about ADR and commercial arbitration in local and international events.