The Netherlands-Thai Chamber of Commerce, in collaboration with the Scandinavian, Swiss, and Benelux Chambers in Thailand, is organizing a lunch talk about the Thai court system, with an emphasis on civil dispute resolution. Michael Ramirez, senior consultant at Tilleke & Gibbins, will examine the practical realities of litigation in Thailand, sharing insightful case studies that will illustrate the challenges and opportunities. Anyone doing business in Thailand needs to know how to defend their rights through the Thai courts.

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.