Uruphan Benjarurawong, manager of legal translation and interpretation at Tilleke & Gibbins, has won the prestigious Surintaracha Award as Thailand’s Best Interpreter for 2013. This award was granted by the Translator and Interpreter Association of Thailand (TIAT) at its seventh annual awards ceremony in Bangkok on April 28, 2013.

In 2013 edition of Chambers Asia-Pacific, nine attorneys at Tilleke & Gibbins have been individually recognized for their outstanding work on behalf of their clients over the past year. The following individuals were named leaders in their respective practice areas for Thailand and Vietnam:

Leading Southeast Asian regional law firm Tilleke & Gibbins has promoted four attorneys to the firm’s partnership, effective January 2013.Coming from across the major practice groups in the firm’s Bangkok office, the new partners include Charunun Sathitsuksomboon and Kobkit Thienpreecha of the firm’s corporate and commercial group, Chusert Supasitthumrong of the dispute resolution department, and Sukontip Jitmongkolthong of the intellectual property team.

Recognizing the firm’s status in the upper echelon of the Thai legal market, Chambers and Partners has nominated Tilleke & Gibbins for its Thailand Law Firm of the Year award. The firm is one of six shortlisted candidates for the award, with the winner set to be announced at the Chambers Asia Pacific Awards on March 1, 2013.