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.

On November 27-28, 2012, OMEGAWORLDCLASS will host a two-day informative summit on “Product Liability Law and Proactive Strategies” at the Swissotel, Nai Lert Park in Bangkok. The summit is intended to assist corporate executives and professionals to manage human resources, exchange knowledge on prevention strategies related to product liability, and to ultimately foster corporate performance in the field.

In the 2013 edition of The Legal 500 Asia Pacific, nine practitioners from Tilleke & Gibbins have been honored for their work on behalf of clients in Thailand and Vietnam. The following lawyers were recognized as leading individuals in their practice areas in Thailand: