We are deeply saddened for the demise of former Commission on Elections (COMELEC) Chairperson Sixto Serrano Brillantes, Jr.
Atty. Brillantes is an alumnus of the San Beda College of Law and graduated cum laude and class valedictorian in 1965. He started his career as a legal researcher in the Court of Appeals and thereafter, as a legal consultant in the Ministry of Trade and Industry, as well as in the Bureau of Domestic Trade. Aside from founding his own law firm, he also became the Legal Counsel of the Eduardo Cojuangco Jr. Group of Companies and General Counsel of the Nationalist People’s Coalition. He was then appointed as Chairman of the COMELEC in 2011.
In addition to being a a sought after election lawyer with notable presidential candidates in the past as clients, he was also a professor in Arellano Law Foundation, Perpetual Help College and San Beda College of Law.
We express our sincerest condolences to the family, relatives, friends and admirers of Atty. Brillantes. As the legal profession has lost one of its luminous members today, we pray that the perpetual light will shine upon his soul and that he may rest in eternal peace.
