Romulo, Ricardo J.

Ricardo J. Romulo (Senior Partner), chairs the Executive Board. His practice focuses on corporate law.

Mr. Romulo was, from 1987 to 2006, Chairman of the Makati Business Club, which is composed of more than 400 of the top Philippine corporations. His Holiness Pope John Paul II conferred on him the Order of St. Gregory the Great with the rank of Knight in 1997. He was also appointed Consul General in 2002 by Her Majesty Queen Margethe II of Denmark, who conferred on him the Knight’s Cross of the Order of Dannebrog in 2010.

Mr. Romulo has worked on a number of commissions for the Philippine government, including the 1986 Constitutional Commission that drafted the 1987 Constitution and the Fact-Finding Commission that investigated the 1989 attempted coup d’etat. He also served in Committees established by the Supreme Court that dealt with Legal Education, Revision of the Judicial Code, and Revision of the Canons of Judicial Ethics, Small Claims, and Judicial Management. The Supreme Court appointed him Bar Examiner in taxation in 1974 and commercial law in 1992, and member of the Executive Committee for the Supreme Court’s Centenary Celebrations. He was also appointed by President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo as one of the five members of the Governance Advisory Council in 2001.

Mr. Romulo received his bachelor of laws degree from Harvard Law School in 1958 and his undergraduate degree from Georgetown University, graduating cum laude in 1955. He joined the law firm in 1960, the same year he was admitted to the Philippine bar.