History of the Raquedan Law Firm

The Raquedan Law Offices was founded on August 1, 2018 and its office premises is located in Quezon City.  The Firm’s founder, Atty. Jhoel P. Raquedan, graduated from the University of the Philippines College of Law (Diliman) in 2000. 

Subsequent to his law school graduation, he gained extensive experience in litigation and dispute resolution, commercial arbitration, labor law and labor relations, corporate and commercial law, telecommunications, transportation law, and real estate and property law acquired while employed, for almost a decade, initially as a Junior Associate and then as a Senior Associate of a top tier law firm in the Philippines. 

After his law office experience, Atty. Raquedan further enhanced his law practice while employed in a top conglomerate as Chief Legal Counsel of one of its subsidiaries and one of the biggest water utility companies in the country.  As Chief Legal Counsel, Atty. Raquedan handled all legal matters for the company and his position enabled him to enrich his experience in utility regulation, water and wastewater business and legal regimes, Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs), Joint Ventures (JVs) with water districts, and mergers and acquisition of water utility companies both for domestic and international markets.  Internal legal matters such as labor standards and labor relations, customer relations, and union-management relations were also handled by him. Atty. Raquedan was also the Assistant Corporate Secretary and Head of the Corporate Governance Department for almost 10 years which positions allowed him to gain vast experience in corporate secretarial work, compliance, corporate governance, and board staff work.  In fact, under this watch, his employer was able to win numerous national and international awards including four (4) consecutive Bell Awards from the Philippine Stock Exchange.  Finally, before establishing Raquedan Law Offices, Atty. Raquedan also served briefly as Vice-President for Legal and Corporate Affairs of a top sugar company and bioethanol producer in the country.