Tilleke & Gibbins International Ltd.

About Tilleke & Gibbins International Ltd.

The year 2020 marks the 130th anniversary of Tilleke & Gibbins, which today is the oldest and largest independent law firm in Thailand. The firm traces its roots to 1890, when Singhalese lawyer William Alfred Goone Tilleke chose Siam, then Southeast Asia’s only surviving independent state, as the place where he could best utilize his considerable talents and secure a distinguished career. His success and achievements were to have a lasting legacy, not least in the founding of a sole practitioner’s law office in 1890 which, when joined by Englishman Ralph Gibbins in 1902, became Tilleke & Gibbins. Successive partners over the decades have been figures as remarkable as the firm’s founder, each contributing to the practice’s development and enviable reputation. The firm’s original name has always been retained, however, and Tilleke & Gibbins has achieved that rare feat of staying true to its core values and traditions while driving forward its practice in a way scarcely matched by any other law firm.