Charles Jay D. Dela Cruz

Senior Partner at Del Rosario & Del Rosario Law Offices

Charles is a Senior Partner at Del Rosario & Del Rosario Law Offices. His practice areas include maritime personal injury disputes, corporate commercial and employment laws. He has been practicing law for 28 years.
He has done extensive work on personal injury claims filed by Filipino claimants in various foreign jurisdiction including the U.S., U.K., Panama, Greece, Marshall Islands and Singapore, and has acted as expert witness on Philippine law in relation to said legal proceedings.

He acts as Legal Advisor and Corporate Secretary to many foreign-affiliated entities particularly Norwegian interests including the Norwegian Maritime Foundation of the Philippines, and the Philippines Norway Business Council (PNBC) where he also sits in their Board of Trustees.

He is Past President and Chairman of the Board, and member of the Board of Advisers of the Maritime Law Association of the Philippines (MARLAW). He is a member of the Board of Trustees (concurrently Asst. Corporate Secretary and Co-Chair of the Maritime Committee) of the Philippine Bar Association (PBA), and also served in the Board of the Law Foundation of Makati. He was likewise Vice Chairman of the Inter-Pacific Bar Association (Insurance Committee), and a member of the Philippine Institute of Arbitration (PIArb).

Aside from legal advocacy, Atty. Dela Cruz regularly shares his expertise as Resource Speaker and/or Chairman in various international and local seminars/conferences mostly dealing with maritime, logistics and employment law issues (some of which were MCLE-accredited). He has been consistently invited by the National Conciliation and Mediation Board (NCMB) to speak in their accreditation, retooling and training programs for Voluntary Arbitrators, Conciliators and Mediators.

He obtained his law degree from San Beda College of Law in 1995 and his Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from De La Salle University in 1989. He participated in the Maritime Law and Practice course conducted by the University of Southampton, U.K. held in Singapore in 2010.