Atty. Valeriano Del Rosario is the managing partner of VeraLaw and he has extensive education and business experience in the U.S. and Europe.
Val, as he is known, was educated at Georgetown Preparatory School and New York University. He returned to the Philippines and obtained his law degree at the Ateneo College of Law with honors, and qualified as a lawyer in 1982. He obtained a masters degree in maritime law from the University of Wales, Institute of Science & Technology, United Kingdom, followed by three years of legal practice at the law firm of Sinclair Roche and Temperley in the City of London.
Val is active in the arrest and release of ships, ship and mortgage registration, cargo claims, and ship collision and salvage. He has been involved for 25 years with the “Dona Paz”, which has been litigated in the Philippines, Texas and Louisiana, U.S.A., and which is the largest peacetime maritime disaster in the world. Val works with UK P&I Clubs, and Japanese shipowners. Val has advised and assisted Japanese shipowners through the web of Philippine regulation, in order for them to be able to establish a presence in the Philippines.
On the commercial law side, he has recently assisted a Philippine client through a complicated mediation involving company subsidiaries involved in litigation in the States of Delaware and California, and the Philippines. He is also heavily involved in advising clients on insurance and commercial law disputes. Lately, he has been active in ship pollution claims on behalf of ship owners.
He was President of the Maritime Law Association of the Philippines in the year 2000.
Outside of work, Val and his wife collect Philippine contemporary art, especially the works of National Artist Bencab. He also teaches Transportation law as a lecturer at the Ateneo College of Law for over 10 years.
