Eliseo Zuñiga Jr.

Practice Areas

Eliseo Zuñiga, Jr. is the head of Quisumbing Torres' Dispute Resolution Practice Group and a member of the Employment & Compensation Practice Group. He is also a member of the Industrial, Manufacturing & Telecommunications and the Healthcare & Life Sciences Industry Groups. He has over 20 years of experience advising clients on general employment issues, employee termination, executive compensation, benefits transfers and terminations, and general litigation. He actively participates as a speaker and presenter in various regional and local seminars and conferences on labor and employment-related issues. He served as a Chairperson of the People Management Association of the Philippines’ Labor Policy Reforms and Industrial Relations Committee and is currently the Co-Chairperson of the European Chamber of Commerce Human Capital Committee. He has been consistently cited as a Band 3 for Labor and Employment by the Chambers Asia Pacific (2018-2024), Litigation Star for Labor and Employment by Benchmark Litigation (2019 to 2024) and Notable Practitioner for Labor and Employment by asialaw Leading Lawyers (2020 to 2024). Eliseo is also recognized as a thought leader in the 2021 Q3 Lexology Legal Influencers for the Future of Legal Services - Asia-Pacific.

Eliseo's practice focuses on commercial and employment litigation, corporate compliance, and general dispute resolution. His practice includes procedures, strategies and negotiations for employee termination; illegal dismissal and labor standard cases; retrenchment, redundancy and downsizing of operations; labor relations/trade unions; executive transfers; and employment contracts, employee handbook and other employment-related documents review.