FRANCIS V. SOBREVIÑAS is the Managing Partner and Partner-in-Charge of the Administrative Staff. He attended Ateneo de Manila University where he received his Bachelor of Science degree (Political Science) in 1968. He obtained his Bachelor of Laws from the University of the Philippines in 1973 and was admitted to the Bar in 1974. At U.P., he was a University Councilor and member of the Student Council and Chairman of the Editorial Board of The Memorandum, the yearbook of the College of Law. He earned his Master of Laws from the Northwestern University in Chicago, Illinois and took up postgraduate studies in Labor Law at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia and University of Tasmania where he received a Post Graduate Research Award.

In 1974, he joined Angara Abello Concepcion Regala and Cruz, where he became partner in 1981 until 1986.

He is a professorial lecturer at the U.P. College of Law and U.P. School of Labor and Industrial Relations and a faculty member of the National Academy of Voluntary Arbitrators.

He is past president of the Philippine Association on Voluntary Arbitration (PAVA), the only existing organization of voluntary arbitrators in the country.  An active member of the Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP), he was past president of IBP Manila IV Chapter and Editor-in-Chief of the IBP Journal for two (2) terms.  At present, he is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the Philippine Association on Voluntary Arbitration.  He is also a member of the Philippine Bar Association, the ASEAN Law Association, the Scintilla Juris Fraternity, and the U.P. Law Alumni Association.