On November 13, 2014, the Euromoney Legal Media Group will host its annual Asia Women in Business Law Awards at the JW Marriott in Hong Kong. The firm awards will be judged on the best initiatives for gender diversity, innovation, work-life balance, pro-bono work, and talent management.Tilleke & Gibbins has been nominated in seven categories this year. This includes the following firmwide awards:

Companies—large and small—and individuals will soon need to integrate a regional, ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) strategy into their plans for IP protection and commercialization. Soon, the AEC will be more than a mere prospect and its implementation will usher in the free movement of goods, services, capital and investment, and certain skilled labor. Incumbent with these changes are both challenges and advantages.

On February 18, 2014, Chambers Asia-Pacific released its annual rankings for law firms and individual lawyers. The rankings were determined through investigations carried out by over 140 researchers, who took into account several factors, including feedback obtained from client interviews, to identify the key legal practitioners in jurisdictions across the region. Individual lawyers were ranked in their practice areas, and they were assessed based on their legal knowledge and experience, their ability, their effectiveness, and their client service.

Auaychai Sukawong, an attorney-at-law in the Tilleke & Gibbins corporate and commercial group with over 12 years of experience in taxation, will be a keynote speaker at a Dataconsult Thailand corporate finance forum called “Corporate and Personal Taxation Outlook for 2014: All You Need to Know (Or Would Rather Forget?).” Auaychai will review the taxation outlook for the coming year, and, in particular, he will discuss the following topics: