Florentino P. Feliciano (March 14, 1928 – December 15, 2015)

Florentino P. Feliciano (March 14, 1928 – December 15, 2015)

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It is with great sadness that SyCip Salazar Hernandez & Gatmaitan announces the passing of retired Supreme Court Associate Justice Florentino P. Feliciano.

Justice Feliciano was a partner of the firm from 1962 to 1986, when he withdrew from SyCipLaw to serve as an Associate Justice of the Philippine Supreme Court. He was the firm’s managing partner at that time. As a Supreme Court justice, he decided numerous cases involving significant commercial law and tax law issues. He served on the highest tribunal until 1995 when he retired early to accept an appointment as one of the first seven members of the Appellate Body of the World Trade Organization. He served on this body with distinction from 1995 to 2001, the last year of which he was chairman. He then rejoined SyCip Law as Senior Counsel. In 2003, he chaired the Fact Finding Commission created by Administrative Order No. 78 (2003) on the military rebellion of July 2003. He was counsel to the Republic in several significant cases. He considered it a duty and a privilege to serve the Republic as its advocate.

Throughout Justice Feliciano’s remarkable career, he was a lawyer with an international reputation for the highest level of excellence and integrity, and widely considered, in the words of his peers, a “towering scholar in international law”. He was a prolific writer and lecturer, an arbiter, an adviser, a teacher, an inspiring mentor, a patriot, and until his passing, and despite all of his achievements and learning, an avid and curious student of the law. He will be missed.

In lieu of flowers, the Feliciano Family would appreciate memorial contributions to the Florentino P. Feliciano Scholarship Fund. For inquiries or pledges of support, please contact Mylene Martija at +632 982-3500 loc. 720.

Below are a few articles on and tributes to Justice Feliciano: