Mendoza, Enriquito J.

Enriquito J. Mendoza (Senior Partner), is a member of the Executive Board who chairs the Labor & Immigration department and is affiliated with the Litigation & Arbitration department. His practice focuses on labor, litigation, and corporate law.

Quito leads the Labor department in assisting employer-clients in collective bargaining negotiations and disputes before labor agencies and courts of law. He gives comprehensive advice on workers and employer rights, including the ramifications to such rights as a result of mergers, consolidations, acquisitions, and other modes of corporate restructuring. His advice covers the effects on security of tenure and possible claims over statutory and contractual benefits resulting from such restructuring.

Quito counsels clients in strike situations on the best ways of resolving labor disputes by way of practical solutions as well as through conciliation, mediation, arbitration, and other extrajudicial processes encouraged by the Labor Code. He also handles labor litigation before the Court of Appeals and Supreme Court.

Quito, with his 40 years of labor law experience, has consistently been cited as a Band 1 labor and employment counsel by reputable law reviews, most recently by the 2013 edition of Chambers and Partners.

Quito received his bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of the Philippines in 1968 and his bachelor of laws degree from the same university in 1973. He was admitted to the Philippine bar in 1974 and joined the firm in the same year.