Rolando Mario Villonco

Villonco is a general partner of Siguion Reyna, Montecillo & Ongsiako Law Offices. He spearheads the labor department of the law firm. He has, through the years, successfully steered many of the biggest companies in the Philippines – such as PLDT, San Miguel Corporation, Philippine Airlines, Atlas Consolidated Mining Corporation, Republic Cement Corporation – in negotiating and concluding collective bargaining agreements with their employees.

His counsel is much sought-after in dealing with, and satisfactorily resolving, myriad employer-employee issues, and other controversies relating to local and international mergers and acquisitions, spin-off projects, outsourcing arrangements, redundancy, streamlining initiatives and other major personnel actions undertaken by management with actual and potentially serious implications in corporate operations and finances. Villonco’s other practice areas are in corporate law, and in corporate and civil litigation.

He is currently the chairman of the board of ETSI Technologies Inc and director of Rothelma and Manila Memorial Park Cemetery Inc.