On April 5, 2018, Wongrat Ratanaprayul, the director of Tilleke & Gibbins’ Indonesia office, will be joining Valentina Salmoiraghi, an IP business advisor at the EU South-East Asia IPR SME Helpdesk, in presenting a seminar entitled “IPR Infringement and Protection in Indonesia” at the Istituto Italiano di Cultura in Jakarta.

Attorney-at-law Waewpen Piemwichai will speak about Vietnam’s franchising law and key negotiation points in franchise agreements at Shop & Store Vietnam 2018, a three-day retail and franchise conference in Ho Chi Minh City co-organized by VF Franchise Consulting and Reed Tradex.

Thomas J. Treutler, partner and managing director of Tilleke & Gibbins’ Vietnam offices, will moderate a panel and provide closing remarks at a workshop on “Intellectual Property Enforcement in a Digital World” on March 12 in Hanoi. The event is a collaborative effort between the American Chamber of Commerce, the U.S. Embassy, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the U.S. Department of Justice, and Vietnam’s Ministry of Science and Technology.

On March 15, Jay Cohen, partner and director of Tilleke & Gibbins’ Cambodia office, and Dino Santaniello, head of the firm’s Laos office, will be speaking at a special event under the theme of “Business Opportunities for American Products and Services in Cambodia and Laos,” organized by the American Chamber of Commerce (AMCHAM) in Thailand and the U.S. Commercial Service Bangkok.