We are the lawyers for the top local marine cargo underwriters such as: Philam Insurance Co., BPI/MS Insurance Corporation, FGU Insurance Corporation, Pioneer Asia Insurance Corp., Pioneer Insurance and Surety Corporation, MAPFRE Insurance Corp., Prudential Guarantee and Assurance Inc., UCPB General Insurance Co., Inc., Jardine Davies Insurance, Malayan Insurance Company, Pan Malayan Insurance Co., Federal Phoenix Assurance Company, Inc., First Lepanto Taisho Insurance Corp., Philippine Charter Insurance Co., Insular General Insurance Co., Inc., Philippine British Assurance Co., and Seaboard Eastern Insurance.
We have also handled cases for foreign marine cargo underwriters such as: American Insurance Group, American Home Assurance Company, Inc., Chubb Group of Insurance Companies, Great American Insurance Company, Mutual Marine Office, Inc., St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance, Talbot Bird & Co., Inc., Wm. H. McGee, and Fireman’s Fund Insurance Co.
We also handled one of the biggest local insurance cases on record for local cargo underwriters FGU and AIU in the MT “Basilan” case against the Philippine National Oil Company.
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 Atty. Beda G. Fajardo has been a practicing lawyer for more than 30 yrs. in corporate, construction, commercial, arbitration law, insurance, maritime, admiralty, civil law (obligation and contract) and immigration. He finished his Bachelor of Arts and Law degrees from the University of the Philippines and took special studies at the Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Massachusetts and at Tulane University in New Orleans. He is also a life member of the Integrated Bar of the Philippines, (IBP) the official mandatory bar organization of some 43,000 Filipino lawyers in the country and was a member of the Board of Governors for three terms (1986; 1987 – 1989; 1991-1993). As Chairman of the IBP Committee on Administration of Justice he was one of those instrumental in the implementation by the Supreme Court of the “Continuous Trial” scheme in court litigation in the district courts which required the parties to complete their evidence in 3 months and for the trial judge to decide the case in 3 months from completion of evidence by the parties. He was former Chairman of the Editorial board of the IBP Law Journal the official IBP law journal. He is a member of various bar associations in the Philippines. He was Past President of the Maritime Law Association of the Philippines (MLAP) (1987-1988) and a member of the Philippine Bar Association (PBA) and the Philippine Constitution Association (Philconsa) and ASEAN Law Association. He was legal counsel of the Maritime Underwriters Association of the Philippines (MUAP). He is also a member of the New York Bar and the American Bar Association and a proctor in admiralty in the Maritime Law Association of the United States (the most prestigious and biggest) and lone Filipino member. He is a member of the Inter-Pacific Bar, (Committee on Insurance) the most prestigious regional association of lawyers in Asia Pacific and was Chairman of its maritime law committee for two terms (1991-1994) and received a plaque of appreciation for dedicated and distinguished service. He is a Philippine delegate to the Comite International Maritime (CMI) Assembly in Sydney in 1995. In January, 1989 he attended the “Pacific Rim Maritime Law Conference” in Honolulu, Hawaii. In 1992 he was invited as a participant in the international symposium the “Admiralty in an International Setting” in London and the “International Symposium on Marine Claims” in Tokyo. He wrote the summary of Philippine law on maritime liens and claims in Prof. William Tetley’s book “Maritime Liens and Claims” 2nd Edition 1998. He has contributed law articles to the Tulane Maritime Law Journal (“Maritime Arbitration in the Philippines”) and APLA Journal of the Asia Pacific Lawyers Association (“Philippine Maritime Code Project”). He is presently a consultant to the codification of maritime laws project of the Philippine Senate. He had taught obligation and contract and commercial law courses at the De La Salle University, Letran College and San Beda College. He was a consultant to the Supreme Court Rules Committee (in 1990-1991) and particularly the 1997 Rules of Civil Procedure project and a member of the Presidential Commission for Better Administration of Justice created by Pres. Corazon C. Aquino (1990). He is a Mandatory Continuing Legal Education (MCLE) lecturer in arbitration (2007). He lectured at the National Defense College on “Maritime Law” (2008).
As an arbitrator (domestic and international)
In 2002 he was a member of an international arbitration panel to arbitrate in London a maritime dispute between a Taiwanese seller of an oil tanker and a Filipino buyer which was however, settled before hearing started. On September 10, 2004 he was admitted as an associate of The Chartered Institute of Arbitrators U.K. and still is at present.
He is also a member of ICC Phil. Inc. which is the National Committee of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) and of its Financial Services and Insurance Committee.
Atty. Fajardo is a construction, commercial and maritime arbitrator. He is one of the few accredited arbitrators of the Construction Industry Arbitration Commission (CIAC) an institutional arbitration center for construction disputes, and has arbitrated 52 construction cases since 1989 as sole arbitrator, or chairman or member of the arbitral panel. He is charter member, past President, legal counsel and present trustee of the Philippine Institute of Construction Arbitrators (PICAM). He is also a member of the Board of Trustees and Vice-President of the Philippine Dispute Resolution Center Inc. (PDRCI) an institutional arbitration center for commercial disputes, and in 1999 he was Chair of the PDRCI arbitration panel which arbitrated a multi-million peso claim filed by professional airline managers against the Philippine Air Lines for violation of their technical service agreement (Case No. 99-11-05, Fyfe et al. vs. PAL), sole arbitrator in two other commercial disputes (PDRCI Case No. 21-2003/SSP, LMG Chemicals Corp. vs. Seaoil Petroleum Corp. and PDRCI No. 20-2003/SSP Siemens Building Technologies Inc. vs. Romago Inc.) and member of the arbitral panel in PDRCI Case No. 31-2006 entitled “PLDT vs. Dept. of Transportation and Communication” and PDRCI Case No. 38-2009 entitled “PILTEL vs. Dept. of Transportation and Communication”.
As a mediator
Atty. Fajardo is also a practicing mediator. In January 2004 he completed the Workshop on the Institution Finalization of Mediation in the Court of Appeals conducted by the Philippine Judicial Academy in coordination with the Court of Appeals, The Philippine Mediation Center, Philippine Mediation Foundation, Inc. and in partnership with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and Economic Governance and Technical Assistance (EGTA). In February, 2004 Atty. Fajardo completed the Faculty Development Program on Court. Annexed Mediation and Judicial Settlement Conference (The Canada-Philippines JURIS ADR Model Courts Project) conducted by the Supreme Court, the Philippine Judicial Academy, Philippine Mediation Center in partnership with the National Judicial Institute of Canada. In March, 2004 Atty. Fajardo completed the Mediation Training Programme for Construction Mediator under the auspices of the Construction Industry Arbitration Commission and the Philippine Institute of Construction Arbitrators, Inc. He is an accredited Trainers trainor for Court of Appeals Mediation of the Philippine Judicial Academy of the Supreme Court of the Philippines.
In his corporate work he had been assigned by the Securities and Exchange Commission as a rehabilitator and later as a liquidator of Lead Capital, Inc.
He had been appointed legal adviser to former Insurance Commissioner Benjamin Santos and as Conservator for the First Integrated Bonding and Insurance, Inc., First Quezon City Insurance Company, Inc. and Development Insurance Company, Inc. by the Insurance Commissioner.
He has been a speaker and lecturer in seminars and written articles on arbitration. He is an MCLE lecturer on ADR (2007) of Frontier Neo-solutions and Systems Corporation.
He was President of Philippine Institute of Construction Arbitrators and Mediators in (2006-2008) and Vice-President of Philippine Dispute Resolution Center, Inc. (2009-10).
He was a Past-Director of the Rotary Club of Manila and at present Director of the Philippine Bar Association (PBA).
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 Atty. Rafaelita F. Fajardo, is a senior partner who handles maritime, corporate, labor, and real estate. She finished her A.B. at Maryknoll College and Law at the University of the Philippines.
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 Atty. Adolfo G. Fajardo, finished his Bachelor of Science in Business Administration (Management) from the University of the East in 1974 and Bachelor of Laws from San Beda College of Law in 1979. He passed the Bar Examinations in 1980. He was Executive Assistant to the Governor of Sorsogon Province from 1981 to 1986. In 1987 he joined the Law Firm of Fajardo Law Offices concentrating in the practice of criminal, administrative, commercial, labor, corporate and immigration law. In 1995 he took a leave from the law firm in order to join the judiciary as Regional Trial Court Judge of Branch 65, Regional Trial Court of Bulan in the Province of Sorsogon (an RTC judge is equivalent to a U.S. District Court judge) of which he is still up to the present.*
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 Atty. Jacinto G. Fajardo Jr., is a senior partner and litigation lawyer. He finished his A.B. and Law at San Beda College. He handles maritime, immigration, insurance, labor, agrarian, civil, criminal, corporate and construction law. He was former AVP for Legal of the Philippine Journalists, Inc., owner and publisher of People’s Journal, People’s Tonight, People’s Bagong Taliba and Women’s Journal.
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 Atty. Diana F. Franco, is another partner. She finished her A. B. and Law degrees at the University of the Philippines. She had stints with San Francisco law firms for several years before joining the law office. She handles family law, intellectual property patents, and corporate law. She was Editor of Bar Briefs the official organ of the Integrated Bar of the Philippines which is circulated nationwide.
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 Atty. Christian F. Fajardo, is a partner handling litigation in maritime, civil, commercial and immigration law. He finished his Bachelor of Arts preparatory to law proper at the University of the Philippines and Bachelor of Laws at the University of Sto. Tomas. He is preparing for his masteral degree course at the Tulane University in New Orleans , Louisiana.
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Imelda Argel finished her A.B. with honors at St. Theresa College, and law at the University of the Philippines and L.L.M. at the University of Sydney. She is a member of the New York Bar and a solicitor in the State of New South Wales and the High Court of Australia.
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