Joseph Manolo R. Rebano

Partner
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Joseph Rebano joined Del Rosario & Del Rosario in 1996 and is the head of the firm’s marine casualty practice.

Joseph has a broad maritime focused practice. He acts for vessel owners and charterers, oil majors, traders, ship managers/ agents, transport intermediaries, port terminals, P&I Clubs, Hull and liability insurers and other marine insurers in both contentious and non-contentious matters.

Joseph’s experience covers a wide range of shipping matters including charter party disputes, ship casualties, marine environmental and pollution claims, salvage, GA, wreck removal, defense of seafarer employment, personal injury and death claims, ship arrest and attachment of ships, ship finance/sale and purchase, rehabilitation, and disputes involving carriage of goods by air, sea and road.

He has been involved numerous major marine casualties in the Philippines and other jurisdictions including collisions, fires and groundings. Some of the significant Philippine maritime casualties Joseph has been involved in are the “NOL Schedar” in 2000 (grounding/pollution incident resulted in major changes in Philippine maritime environmental legislations, “Solar 1” in 2006 (considered the largest pollution incident in the Philippines), “Superferry 14” in 2004 (terrorist attack on ferry), “St. Thomas Aquinas” in 2013 (ferry and cargo vessel collision), and “Harita Bauxite” in 2013 (cargo liquefaction resulting to vessel sinking/pollution of several provinces).

On the insurance side, Joseph advises clients on various types of insurance products including, among others, marine insurance.

Joseph also has considerable experience of commercial dispute resolution, corporate, regulatory and transactional matters specializing in maritime related entities, including disputes arising out of joint ventures, compliances and shareholder disputes.

Year on year Joseph is recognized in the various legal directories. He is listed as a leading individual for Shipping and Labour & Employment in Legal 500 2018. He is also considered as a leading lawyer in Asia Law 2018 for Shipping, Maritime & Aviation and Dispute Resolution.

Chambers Asia 2012 states: “Joseph Rebano is best known for his expertise in admiralty and related investigations. Sources describe him as “an outstanding lawyer, he is very diligent and very thorough.”

In 2018, Joseph was recognized by Asia Business Law as among The Philippines Top 100 lawyers.

He is a past president of the Philippine Maritime Law Association, former Vice Chairman of the Maritime Committee of the IPBA and former core group member of the Draft Maritime Code project of the Committee on Transportation, Philippine House of Representatives.

Joseph received his Law degree from University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City. He also attained his bachelor's in science degree with a major in Economics (CumLaude) from University of the Philippines. In 2001, he attended a Programme in General Management for Shipping jointly organized by the Indian Institute of Management-Amhedabad and the Indian Maritime Training Centre. He also attended the Asia Law & Practice program of the Institute of Maritime Law, University of Southampton, United Kingdom in 2006.