Tilleke & Gibbins Promotes Four New Partners in Thailand and Vietnam

Regional Southeast Asian law firm Tilleke & Gibbins is pleased to announce the promotion of four new members of the firm’s partnership, effective January 2018:

Athistha (Nop) Chitranukroh leads the firm’s non-contentious insurance practice across Southeast Asia, while maintaining an active practice in other corporate and commercial areas, including client matters focused on technology and data privacy. Prior to joining Tilleke & Gibbins in 2016, Athistha served as Senior Vice President – General Counsel at a multinational insurance company, where she oversaw all operations within the legal department in Thailand. Based in the firm’s Bangkok office, Athistha is ranked as a leading insurance lawyer in Thailand in Chambers Asia-Pacific 2018.

Kien Trung Trinh is a corporate lawyer in Tilleke & Gibbins’ Hanoi office. He provides sound advice on corporate formation, as well as various employment law matters including company work rules, benefit plans, social and health insurance, personal income tax, employment contracts, collective bargaining agreements, confidentiality agreements, employee registration, and terminations and disciplinary actions. He also takes an active role in the firm’s regional life sciences practice, where he advises and assists clients with registration of pharmaceuticals, medical devices, foods, and animal products, as well as compliance matters.

Loc Xuan Le is an intellectual property enforcement specialist who has secured several groundbreaking wins in patent infringement cases for major international pharmaceutical, medical device, and agrochemical companies. Loc, who is on the Executive Board of the Vietnam IP Association, is recognized as a leading IP attorney by Chambers Asia-Pacific, The Legal 500 Asia Pacific, WTR 1000, and IAM Patent 1000, and is praised by clients and peers as “a powerhouse of energy and enthusiasm” and “one of the best lawyers in trademark enforcement in Vietnam” in Managing IP magazine’s IP Stars.

Vinh Quoc Nguyen focuses his practice on commercial transactions and M&A. Based in the firm’s Ho Chi Minh City office, he advises high-profile banks on secured and unsecured corporate lending and regulatory compliance. He also has considerable experience assisting clients in real estate projects, compliance investigations, and arbitration matters. Vinh holds a Doctor of Judicial Science from Meiji Gakuin University in Japan, and he served as a Legal Expert in the Ministry of Justice in Hanoi for over a decade before joining Tilleke & Gibbins.

“We’re delighted to add these four talented attorneys to our firm’s partnership across three of our regional offices this year,” says Tiziana Sucharitkul, Co-Managing Partner of Tilleke & Gibbins. “Given the wide range of work they do for our clients in key industries—including banking, insurance, life sciences, and technology—we’re confident that our new partners will contribute to our future growth and enhance the services we provide to clients.”

Tilleke & Gibbins now has 24 partners and 138 associates in its seven offices across Southeast Asia.


About Tilleke & Gibbins

Tilleke & Gibbins is a leading Southeast Asian regional law firm with over 160 lawyers and consultants practicing in Bangkok, Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Jakarta, Phnom Penh, Vientiane, and Yangon. The firm represents the top investors and the high-growth companies that drive economic expansion in Asia in the key areas of commercial transactions and M&A, dispute resolution and litigation, and intellectual property.

Established in 1890, Tilleke & Gibbins has grown into the largest independent law firm in Thailand and a leading international firm in Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Myanmar, and Vietnam based on its client focus, regional expertise, and international vision. The firm’s corporate clients include world leaders in the fields of pharmaceuticals and healthcare, energy, consumer goods and retailing, manufacturing, financial services, insurance, information technology, and telecommunications. Tilleke & Gibbins proudly helps global companies excel in Asia and domestic companies shine abroad.

For more information, please visit www.tilleke.com.