Tilleke & Gibbins

Last updated
Tilleke & Gibbins
T&G logo Blue on White BG.jpg
Headquarters Bangkok, Thailand
No. of offices7
No. of attorneys230+
Major practice areasBanking and Finance, Capital Markets, Competition and Trade, Compliance and Investigations, Corporate/M&A, Dispute Resolution and Litigation, Employment, Intellectual Property, Property, Regulatory Affairs, Tax
Date founded1890
Website www.tilleke.com

Tilleke & Gibbins is a regional law firm in Southeast Asia, with offices in Bangkok, Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Jakarta, Vientiane, Phnom Penh, and Yangon. The firm's core practices are commercial transactions, mergers and acquisitions, dispute resolution, litigation, and intellectual property law.

Contents

History

In 1890, William Alfred Tilleke, a Ceylonese solicitor, began a new practice in Siam (now Thailand). [1] In 1894, Tilleke gained recognition when he successfully defended Phra Yot Muang Kwang, a Thai provincial governor, who had been accused of murdering a French military officer. [2] [3] In the face of colonial pressure by the French and before a French Court conducted in Thailand, Tilleke exonerated Phra Yot through affirmative evidence and all seven judges presiding returned a "Not Guilty" verdict. [3]

Ralph Gibbins, an Englishman, partnered with Tilleke in 1902, and the firm adopted the name, Tilleke & Gibbins. Later, Ralph became a legal adviser in the Siamese Ministry of Justice, before serving as a judge of the International Court in 1916. [4]

Samuel Brighouse and Reginald Atkinson led the firm from 1911 until Thailand’s involvement in World War II in 1941. During the war, the firm ceased operations. [5] Some of the company documents were safeguarded by Ina Jorgensen, the former secretary of one of the firm's partners, Victor Jaques, who had fled abroad. In 1946, Mr. Jaques reestablished the firm as the sole partner remaining after the war had ended.

In 1951, Albert Lyman purchased the firm—minus its trademark and intellectual property work, which had been given to Jorgensen—from Victor Jaques for $2,500. Mr. Lyman and his wife, Freda, ran the firm with a Thai partner, Rojvit Periera. The Lymans’ son, David, joined the firm in 1967 and took over Tilleke & Gibbins’ operations after his father’s death in 1984. In addition to being Chairman of the firm, David also acts as the firm's Chief Values Officer.

Darani Vachanavuttivong and Tiziana Suchartikul are the Managing Partners of the firm.

Practice areas

Tilleke & Gibbins is a full-service law firm working with multinational companies doing business in Southeast Asia. The firm's services are categorized into 6 multidisciplinary industry groups and 11 practices: [6]

Industries

Practices

Offices

Tilleke & Gibbins’ head office is in Bangkok, Thailand, with other offices in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, Jakarta, Indonesia, Vientiane, Laos, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, and Yangon, Myanmar. [7]

Awards and rankings

Tilleke & Gibbins has been ranked as a leading legal practice in Southeast Asia in various legal directories, such as Asia-Pacific Legal 500 [8] , Asian Legal Business,Chambers Asia Pacific [9] , and IFLR 1000. [10] The firm's intellectual property practice has earned recognition from other, practice-specific directories, such as Asia IP, Intellectual Asset Management [11] , Managing Intellectual Property [12] , and World Trademark Review [13] . In 2017, Tilleke & Gibbins won the "Southeast Asia Firm of the Year" [14] [15] award from Asialaw's Asia-Pacific Legal Awards. In 2018, Managing Intellectual Property named the firm as "Asia-Pacific CSR Firm of the Year. [16] "

The firm has received 17 Asian Legal Business "Employer of Choice" awards in Indonesia, Thailand, and Vietnam [17] [18] [19] [20] [21] [22] [23] [24] [25] ".

Memberships

Tilleke & Gibbins The firm is a longstanding member of international legal networks Lex Mundi and Multilaw. Partners from the firm have served as chair of Lex Mundi [26] and Multilaw [27] in 2017 and 2018.

Museum of Counterfeit Goods

The firm's Bangkok office is the site of the Tilleke & Gibbins Museum of Counterfeit Goods, established in 1989. The museum's collection includes more than 3,500 counterfeit copies of trademarked and copyrighted goods. [28] The museum has been featured on CNN and BBC in documentaries on counterfeiting in Thailand. [29] Additionally, The Condé Nast Traveler, The Christian Science Monitor, and Time magazine have also profiled the museum. [30] [31] [32]

Related Research Articles

Intellectual property rights (IPRs) have been acknowledged and protected in China since the 1980s. China has acceded to the major international conventions on protection of rights to intellectual property. Domestically, protection of intellectual property law has also been established by government legislation, administrative regulations, and decrees in the areas of trademark, copyright, and patent. Although this IP framework is developing quickly, as of 2023 it remains less developed than most industrialized countries.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Borden Ladner Gervais</span> Full-service law firm

Borden Ladner Gervais LLP is a leading, full-service law firm in Canada. With two hundred years of history going back to the 1823 founding of McMaster Gervais, it now has offices in Toronto, Montréal, Vancouver, Ottawa, and Calgary. With almost 900 lawyers, intellectual property agents and other professionals are associated with the firm. BLG is governed by a national council composed of partners from across Canada. Sean Weir served as the firm's first National Managing Partner until 2018, and was succeeded in the position by John Murphy of the Montreal office.

Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP, commonly known as Finnegan, is an international intellectual property law firm based in Washington, DC, United States. Finnegan was founded on March 1, 1965, by Marc Finnegan and Douglas Henderson in Washington, DC. It is one of the largest law firms focusing exclusively on the practice of intellectual property (IP) law, practicing all aspects of patent, trademark, copyright, and trade secret law, including counseling, prosecution, licensing, and litigation. Finnegan, also represents clients on IP issues related to U.S. and European patents and trademarks, international trade, portfolio management, the Internet, e-commerce, government contracts, antitrust, and unfair competition.

Graham & James LLP is a now-defunct law firm. It was founded as Graham & Morse by Chalmers Graham and Clarence Morse in San Francisco in 1934. Morse left the firm to become chair of the Federal Maritime Commission, and Leonard James, a maritime lawyer who had become friends with Graham and Morse while working for the War Shipping Administration during World War II, became a name partner. The firm was originally a small firm focused on the maritime industry.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Deacons (law firm)</span>

Deacons is an international law firm with over 300 attorneys and 700 employees worldwide.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Museum of Counterfeit Goods</span>

The Tilleke & Gibbins Museum of Counterfeit Goods is a museum focused on intellectual property infringement in Yan Nawa District, Bangkok, Thailand. It is operated by Tilleke & Gibbins, a law firm with offices in Thailand and Vietnam. In the firm's Bangkok office on the 26th floor of Supalai Grand Tower, the museum is home to a variety of counterfeit and infringed goods that the firm has accumulated in its work.

Counterfeit consumer goods are goods, often of inferior quality, made or sold under another's brand name without the brand owner's authorization. Sellers of such goods may infringe on either the trademark, patent or copyright of the brand owner by passing off its goods as made by the brand owner. Counterfeit products made up 5 to 7% of world trade in 2013, and in 2014 cost an estimated 2.5 million jobs worldwide, with up to 750,000 jobs lost in the U.S. About 5% of goods imported into the European Union in 2013 were fakes, according to the OECD.

Kim & Chang is an international law firm headquartered in Seoul. Founded in 1973, it is the largest law firm in South Korea by headcount, with over 1,200 professionals and offices in Seoul, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Ho Chi Minh City. In 2016, it became the first Korean law firm to be included in the world's top 100 law firms by the American Lawyer, ranking 59th with a revenue of $686 million. In 2017, the firm posted a revenue of ₩1.01 trillion, becoming Korea's first law firm to reach a revenue milestone of 1 trillion won.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Rajah & Tann</span>

Rajah & Tann Singapore LLP is a law firm headquartered in Singapore, with affiliate offices in Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam, DUTAMAS Founded in 1976, it is a member firm of Rajah & Tann Asia, a network of law firms in Southeast Asia with over 800 fee earners.

Krogerus is one of the largest business law firms in Finland. It is headquartered in Helsinki and has offices in Kuopio and Turku. The firm's revenue was approximately €53 million, as of the financial period ending 31 March 2023. Krogerus employs approximately 260 professionals.

William Alfred Goone-Tilleke (1860–1918) was a Ceylonese-Siamese lawyer, entrepreneur and aristocrat. He was the founder of the law firm Tilleke & Gibbins, a privy councilor and second Attorney General of Siam (1912–1917). In Siam he was also known as Phraya Attakarnprasiddhi.

Atsumi & Sakai is a law firm in Tokyo, Japan, founded in 1994 as Atsumi & Usui by a group of lawyers led by Hiroo Atsumi, who came from Blakemore & Mitsuki law firm. From 2003, the firm was known as Atsumi & Partners. And since the joining of a practice group from TMI Associates, the firm has changed its name to Atsumi & Sakai.

Allen & Gledhill LLP is a Singapore law firm with a regional network of associate firms and offices. It is the largest law firm in Singapore, and is a regional market leader in many practices, particularly banking, finance, capital markets, corporate law, M&A law, and other transactional and advisory matters. The firm provides legal services to local companies and MNCs, financial institutions, and individual clients.

Katende Ssempebwa & Co. Advocates commonly known as KATS is a Ugandan law firm whose headquarters are in Kampala, the capital city of Uganda. It is the country's longest-standing premier league corporate commercial firm founded in 1969. It is the biggest full-service Ugandan firm in terms of numbers and a member of the LEXAfrica network.

Kateera & Kagumire Advocates simply known as Kateera & Kagumire and formerly known as Hunter & Greig is a Ugandan law firm headquartered in Kampala, the capital city of Uganda and with a history dating back to 1903. It is one of the oldest and leading law firms in the country.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co</span>

Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Company is a full-service Indian law firm. The Firm came into existence on May 11, 2015, from its predecessor Amarchand & Mangaldas & Suresh A Shroff.

Price Sanond Limited is an internationally oriented law firm based in Bangkok, serving a broad range of multinational corporations having business operations in Thailand.

Tompkins Wake is a New Zealand law firm, headquartered in Hamilton, New Zealand with offices also in Auckland, Rotorua and Tauranga. The firm was founded as Tompkins and Wake in Hamilton on 22 June 1922 by Lance Tompkins and Cecil Barry Wake.

Ligomarc Advocates, also Ligomarc, is a Ugandan law firm headquartered in Kampala, the capital city of Uganda. It is a private legal practice, founded in 2003. The firm specializes in business law.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Victor Jaques</span> British Army officer

Brigadier Victor Henry Jaques CBE DSO MC & Bar was a British Army officer. He served during the First World War before becoming a lawyer in Bangkok, Siam, with Tilleke & Gibbins. During the Second World War Jaques rejoined the army. In 1945 he was posted as the representative of Force 136, a British intelligence unit, in Bangkok. One of his key roles was to liaise with the Thai official Pridi Banomyong. The Thai government was technically at war with the Allies, but Pridi was also a leader of the anti-Japanese Free Thai Movement, and Jaques worked to co-ordinate Allied operations with the movement and to plan for future relations. Jaques was hindered by Pridi's distrust of British plans for South-east Asia in the post-war period, as well as various diplomatic incidents. Pridi instead favoured closer relations with the Americans. Jaques remained in Bangkok after the war, both as an army officer and as a civilian lawyer. He played a key role in re-founding the city's British Club in 1947.

References

  1. ↑ Tilleke & Gibbins Official Profile
  2. ↑ Subject Siam: Family, Law, and Colonial Modernity in Thailand by Tamara Lynn Loos, published by Cornell University Press (2006), 60.
  3. 1 2 The Peoples and Politics of the Far East, by Henry Norman (2001), 481.
  4. ↑ Streckfuss, David (2010-09-13). Truth on Trial in Thailand: Defamation, Treason, and Lèse-Majesté. Routledge. ISBN   9781136942037.
  5. ↑ "Tilleke & Gibbins Firm History" . Retrieved 12 August 2015.
  6. ↑ "Services". Tilleke & Gibbins.
  7. ↑ "List of Offices".
  8. ↑ "The Legal 500 > Tilleke & Gibbins > Bangkok, Thailand> What we say". www.legal500.com. Retrieved 2019-02-06.
  9. ↑ "Tilleke & Gibbins Profile | Chambers and Partners". Chambers and Partners. c. 2019.[ permanent dead link ]
  10. ↑ "Tilleke & Gibbins | IFLR1000". www.iflr1000.com. Retrieved 2019-02-06.
  11. ↑ "Thailand Top TM Professionals | IAM". www.iam-media.com. Retrieved 2019-02-06.
  12. ↑ "IP STARS – Thailand". IP STARS. Retrieved 2019-02-06.
  13. ↑ "Thailand Top TM Professionals | World Trademark Review". www.worldtrademarkreview.com. Retrieved 2019-02-06.
  14. ↑ "Asialaw – Asialaw ALP Awards 2017 – winners announced". Asialaw. Retrieved 2019-02-06.
  15. ↑ "Tilleke & Gibbins Wins Three Asialaw Firm of the Year Awards | Tilleke & Gibbins". www.tilleke.com. Retrieved 2019-02-06.
  16. ↑ "Tilleke & Gibbins Named Asia-Pacific CSR Firm of the Year at MIP Asia Awards | Tilleke & Gibbins". www.tilleke.com. Retrieved 2019-02-06.
  17. ↑ "Asian Legal Business: Tilleke & Gibbins Voted Employer of Choice 2013 in Thailand and Vietnam". Tilleke & Gibbins.
  18. ↑ "Asian Legal Business: Tilleke & Gibbins Voted Employer of Choice 2014 in Thailand and Vietnam". Tilleke & Gibbins.
  19. ↑ "Asian Legal Business: Tilleke & Gibbins Voted Employer of Choice 2015 in Thailand". Tilleke & Gibbins.
  20. ↑ "Tilleke & Gibbins Named ALB Employer of Choice 2016 in Thailand and Vietnam". Tilleke & Gibbins.
  21. ↑ "Tilleke & Gibbins Named ALB Employer of Choice 2017". Tilleke & Gibbins.
  22. ↑ "ALB: Tilleke & Gibbins Recognized as Employer of Choice 2018 for Thailand and Vietnam". Tilleke & Gibbins.
  23. ↑ "Tilleke & Gibbins Named ALB Employer of Choice 2019". Tilleke & Gibbins.
  24. ↑ "Tilleke & Gibbins Named ALB Employer of Choice 2020 in Thailand and Vietnam". Tilleke & Gibbins.
  25. ↑ "Tilleke & Gibbins Named ALB Employer of Choice 2021 in Thailand and Vietnam". Tilleke & Gibbins.
  26. ↑ "Tilleke & Gibbins Partner Elected as New Chair of Lex Mundi". Tilleke & Gibbins.
  27. ↑ "Tilleke & Gibbins Partner Elected as New Chair of Multilaw". Tilleke & Gibbins.
  28. ↑ "Museum of Counterfeit Goods Home Page". Archived from the original on 2010-01-27. Retrieved 2010-06-29.
  29. ↑ "Faking it at Bangkok's Museum of Counterfeit Goods". CNN Travel. Retrieved 2018-07-09.
  30. ↑ Lockhart, Katie. "Tilleke & Gibbins Museum of Counterfeit Goods, – Culture Review". Condé Nast Traveler. Retrieved 2019-02-06.
  31. ↑ "Thailand: Fakery, enshrined". Christian Science Monitor. June 11, 2009.
  32. ↑ Time Article
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.