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October 23, 2025

Tilleke & Gibbins Maintains Leading Regional Position in 2025 Asialaw Profiles Rankings

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Tilleke & Gibbins has once again earned top recognitions in Asialaw Profiles, which highlights the leading domestic and regional firms operating across Asia. In the newly released 2025 edition, the firm secured rankings in 39 total categories spanning practice areas and industry sectors, with 19 of these in the highest available tiers.

The firm’s Thailand practice continued to perform strongly, leading all Thailand-ranked firms with 19 total rankings. A particular highlight of this year’s results was the rise of the firm’s Thailand rankings in Banking & Financial Services and Capital Markets, both of which advanced from Recommended to Highly Recommended—reflecting the growing strength of the firm’s financial sector capabilities.

Across other Southeast Asian jurisdictions, Tilleke & Gibbins maintained consistently strong rankings:

  • In Cambodia, the firm was recognized for its strengths in corporate, financial, and IP work, with Highly Recommended rankings for Consumer Goods and Services and General Business Law (now reclassified as Finance and Corporate in collaboration with IFLR).
  • In Laos, the firm continued to be recognized for its energy, regulatory, and IP capabilities, maintaining Highly Recommended status in key areas.
  • In Vietnam, Tilleke & Gibbins retained Outstanding recognition for Intellectual Property and Highly Recommended rankings across several corporate and employment-related categories.
  • In Indonesia, the firm continued to be Highly Recommended for IP, where it remains one of the most prominent practices in the market.

Individual Recognitions

In addition to the firmwide rankings, Asialaw Profiles 2025 recognized 27 individual lawyers from Tilleke & Gibbins—up from 22 in 2024. These include six new or promoted recognitions in Thailand:

These additions further expand the firm’s representation across key practice areas, reflecting the depth of talent across Tilleke & Gibbins’ regional offices.

Asialaw Profiles is a guide to the leading Asia-based law firms across practice areas and industry sectors, ranking domestic and regional firms headquartered in Asia. The full 2025 rankings are available on the Asialaw website.

Industries

Automotive

Aviation

Consumer Products

Energy

Fintech

Insurance

Life Sciences

Technology

Practices

Antitrust and Competition

Banking and Finance

Capital Markets

Compliance and Investigations

Corporate/M&A

Customs and International Trade

Dispute Resolution and Litigation

Employment

Intellectual Property

Real Estate

Regulatory Affairs

Tax

Locations

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December 16, 2021
In the recently released 2022 edition of Chambers Asia-Pacific, Tilleke & Gibbins has earned high rankings across all of the firm’s jurisdictions in Southeast Asia. Moreover, a total of 21 practitioners from all of the firm’s offices received individual rankings. A full summary is below. Thailand Tilleke & Gibbins’ practice in Bangkok—the firm’s largest office—led the way with rankings in 12 different practices areas, including three Band 1 recognitions: Aviation – Band 1 Competition/Antitrust – Band 2 Corporate/M&A – Band 3 Dispute Resolution – Band 3 Employment – Band 1 Insurance – Band 3 Intellectual Property – Band 1 Projects & Energy – Band 3 Real Estate – Band 3 Restructuring/Insolvency – Band 2 Tax – Band 3 Technology, Media, Telecoms (TMT) – Band 2 Vietnam Tilleke & Gibbins’ offices in Vietnam (Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City) garnered a total of five rankings, two of which are Band 1: Corporate/M&A – Band 4 Dispute Resolution – Band 4 Employment – Band 3 Intellectual Property – Band 1 Technology, Media, Telecoms (TMT) – Band 1 Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, and Myanmar The firm’s offices in Jakarta, Phnom Penh, Vientiane, and Yangon earned one ranking each: Cambodia – General Business Law – Band 2 Indonesia – Intellectual Property – Band 4 Laos – General Business Law – Band 2 Myanmar – General Business Law – Band 4 Individual Rankings In the 2022 rankings, Tilleke & Gibbins lawyers received a total of 21 individual rankings—two more than last year’s 19. The ranked practitioners are recognized in eight practice areas: Aviation: John Frangos (Thailand) Corporate/M&A: Chuyen Hong Huu Le (Vietnam), Cynthia M. Pornavalai (Thailand), Kien Trung Trinh (Vietnam) Dispute Resolution: Thawat Damsa-ard (Thailand) Employment: Chusert Supasitthumrong (Thailand), Kien Trung Trinh (Vietnam), Pimvimol (June) Vipamaneerut (Thailand), General Business Law: Jay Cohen (Cambodia), Dino Santaniello
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Darani Vachanavuttivong, co-managing partner of Tilleke & Gibbins and managing director of the firm’s intellectual property practice, was named Thought Leader of the Year for Southeast Asia in the inaugural edition of the Women in Law Awards from Asian Legal Business (ALB). The awards were organized to celebrate exceptional performance from female lawyers in jurisdictions across the Asia-Pacific region. To determine the winners, ALB’s in-house editorial and research team reviewed submissions from firms in Asia to come up with a shortlist of finalists, which was then turned over to an independent panel of experts responsible for selecting the award recipient in each category. The Thought Leader of the Year award recognizes Darani’s own professional contributions through frequent publications and speaking engagements, as well as her steady direction of the publications output of the Tilleke & Gibbins intellectual property team. Owned by Thomson Reuters, ALB operates a portfolio of legal titles, law awards, legal summits, and online services. For more information on the ALB Women in Law awards, or to browse a full list of the winners, please visit the ALB website.
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