Atty. Adrian Ferdinand S. Sugay

Atty. Sugay started his law career as an associate attorney at Ongkiko Kalaw Manhit Acorda Panga & Velasco and later became a partner of De Borja Medialdea Bello Guevarra & Gerodias and Managing Head of Sugay Law. 

He recently served as an Undersecretary at the Department of Justice and was given primary charge of the National Prosecution Service and the National Bureau of Investigation, two main institutions under the Department of Justice that are at the forefront of the administration of justice and specialized law enforcement.

During his stint at the Department of Justice, he was likewise designated as the alternate of the Secretary of Justice in the Anti-Terrorism Council, the Inter-Agency Committee on Anti-Illegal Drugs, the Dangerous Drugs Board, the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict, the National Task Force on the West Philippine Sea, the Inter-Agency Committee on Extra-Legal Killings, Enforced Disappearances, Torture, and Other Grave Violations of the Right to Life, Liberty, and Security of Persons, and the National Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism Coordinating Committee, served as a member of the sub-committee for the revision of the Rules on Criminal Procedure, and chaired the technical working group which drafted the implementing rules for the Anti-Terrorism Act of 2020.

At present, he is a member of the board of directors of the PNOC Exploration Corporation and a member of the Ad Hoc Committee for the Formulation of the Special Rules of Procedure on Anti-Terrorism Cases. 

Atty. Sugay specializes in general litigation/dispute resolution work and in maritime and energy practice. He has had the privilege of representing banks, real estate companies, manufacturing companies, protection and indemnity clubs, and energy-generation companies primarily in connection with their litigation-related concerns and has successfully handled cases relating to such diverse matters as general criminal and civil litigation, intra-corporate disputes, maritime claims and disputes, and disputes involving matters regulated by quasi-judicial agencies.