Firm overview
Poblador Bautista & Reyes (PBR) is a professional partnership founded in 1994 by Alexander J. Poblador, Mario Luza Bautista, and Gilbert Raymund T. Reyes. PBR is a general practice and full-service firm with lawyers who have extensive experience and expertise, particularly in the fields of litigation and commercial arbitration (international and domestic), energy, real estate and construction, mining and resources, government contracts, intra-corporate disputes, intellectual property, media and telecommunications, e-commerce, logistics, data privacy, anti-trust and competition, insurance and banking, insolvency and restructuring, family law, taxation, and white collar criminal law.
Over the last few years, PBR's work in international and domestic commercial arbitration has greatly increased and intensified. The firm has collaborated, and continues to work with prominent foreign arbitration counsel and experts to assert or defend the rights and interests of private investors and Philippine conglomerates, involving critical Government and commercial contracts in the energy, infrastructure, utilities, construction, and transportation industries. The firm likewise continues to handle numerous domestic arbitrations before the Construction Industry Arbitration Commission, the Philippine Dispute Resolution Center, Inc., the Philippine International Center for Conflict Resolution, Inc., and local and ad hoc arbitrations.