Hector M. de Leon, Jr. is the managing partner of SyCip Salazar Hernandez & Gatmaitan. His practice focuses on corporate and commercial matters, with emphasis on equity investments, mergers and acquisitions, project development and finance, and similar commercial transactions.

Mr. de Leon is a professorial lecturer at the University of the Philippines College of Law. He is also a fellow of the Institute of Corporate Directors and a member of the Inter-Pacific Bar Association and Tax Management Association of the Philippines.