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 Vicente
V. Asuncion, Jr. (“Vic” to his many friends) had many fruitful years
of legal practice in Canada
and in the Philippines. He has been a member of the Law Society of British Columbia since 1992
and was a senior associate of Beck, Robinson & Company in Vancouver. In August 2005, he will move to
his own office, Asuncion & Company, Barrister and Solicitor at 1200-805
West Broadway in Vancouver. His practice includes: general
practice of law, business law, real estate, wills & estate,
immigration, and private international law.
During the last six years, he has presided on hundreds of appeal cases as
part-time chair of the Review Tribunal of Canada Pension Plan in
Vancouver. He heads a panel of three members appointed by the Government of Canada
to review decisions of the Minister of Human Resources (now Social
Development Canada), on Disability and Old Age Security.
He writes the decisions on the claims appealed to the tribunal. Of
his skill and ability in conducting quasi-judicial hearings and writing
tribunal decisions, a senior official of the tribunal has observed that
Vic Asuncion “is well-versed in the various subject-matters that Review
Tribunals are called upon to address under the Canada Pension Plan and Old
Age Security Act.” His mandate
ends in July 2005.
Vic
Asuncion is a law graduate of both the University
of British Columbia
(1991) and the Ateneo de Manila (1955). He was the 7th topnotcher in the
Philippine Bar Exams the same year he graduated, the only law graduate
from Ateneo who topped the bar that year. He is also the first Filipino to
pass the BC Law Society Common Law Exams in 1974.
Born
in Cebu
City, Vic Asuncion had a very fruitful and extensive law career in the Philippines
before immigrating to Canada. He was admitted to practice as attorney and counselor-at-law by the
Supreme Court of the Philippines
in 1956. From 1956 to 1958 he worked as associate attorney for the Law
Office of Juan T. Chuidian (formerly Gibbs, Gibbs, Chuidian & Quasha)
and then set up his law practice in Manila. For some time, he was also associate professor of business law at De La
Salle University. Since then, he had
a thriving practice distinguishing himself as corporate counsel and a tax
expert, in the process becoming executive and
part-owner of large corporations. He was director of Atlas Consolidated
Mining & Development Corporation; corporate secretary, general counsel
and director of Hydro Resources Construction Corporation; executive
vice-president and general manager of Sta. Ines Melale Forest Products
Company; and executive vice-president and corporate counsel of Galleon
Shipping Corporation.
Aside
from his active law practice in Vancouver, Vic Asuncion has been involved in various community organizations. He is
a member and past President of the Rotary Club of Vancouver Quadra, member
of the Vancouver Board of Trade, member and President Emeritus of the
Philippine Canada Trade Council, and Chair of the Trustees of the
Philippine Community Centre Society.
He
has participated in three overseas trade missions: the Trade Mission to
Asia headed by Premier Mike Harcourt and then Finance Minister Glen
Clarke; the Team Canada Trade Mission to Asia led by Prime Minister Jean
Chrétien and ten provincial premiers; and the APEC Conference in Vancouver
where he served as a delegate of the Philippine Government. He was
honorary trade commissioner of the Philippine Government in Vancouver
from 1999 to December 2001.
Vic
Asuncion is married to Maryanne Axisa. He has three grown-up children, all
in Vancouver. - LBC
Asuncion
& Company
Barristers and Solicitors
1200-805 West Broadway
Vancouver, BC
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