DISTINCTIONS

• William Alfred Tilleke was bestowed a peerage and given the title of Maha Ammart Tho Phraya Attakarn Prasiddhi by H.M. the King; he was also Attorney General of Siam.
• Ralph Gibbins was a judge on the International Court (Appeals) in Bangkok.
• Victor Jaques, a highly decorated officer in World War I, was British Military Governor of Bangkok after World War II.
• Albert Lyman was a founder of the American Association of Thailand, now the American Chamber of Commerce; a founder and Chairman of the Bangkok Stock Exchange, now the Stock Exchange of Thailand; and recipient of the Spanish Civil Order of Merit.
• Freda Ring Lyman, who received the Most Noble Order of the Crown of Thailand 5th Class in 1961, was the first foreign woman to be decorated by H.M. King Bhumibol Adulyadej.
• Rojvit Periera, one of Thailand's foremost trial lawyers, was Rotary Club's first District Governor for all of Thailand in 1982.
• David Lyman: Founding Member of the Thai Prime Minister's Foreign Investment Advisory Council and the Thailand Business Council for Sustainable Development; Founder Board Member of the International Chamber of Commerce Thailand National Chapter; Director of the Thai Board of Trade; Director and Vice Chairman of the Asia Pacific Council of American Chambers of Commerce; Governor and President of the American Chamber of Commerce for many years; Founder Executive Board Member of Lex Mundi and Program Fellow of the World Economic Forum; Advisory Board Member, International Crisis Group; Commission on Environmental Law (CEL) of the IUCN The World Conservation Union; selected "Boss of the Year 1997" by the Women Secretaries' Association of Thailand; recipient of Certificate of Achievement from the Prime Minister of Thailand as chairman of the Board of Investment in 1990 and 1992; Certificate of Appreciation from the U.S. Department of Commerce in 1987; Distinguished Service Award from the American Chamber of Commerce in Thailand in 1990; Certificate of Appreciation, American Chamber of Commerce in Thailand on the occasion of "50 Years of American Business in Thailand", 2006; Author of book, "Lyman's Laws for Lawyers (and everybody else, too!)", published in Bangkok, Thailand, ISBN 974-97457-5-5, August 2006.
• Dr. Charoen Kanthawongse: Elected Member of Parliament for eight terms; Deputy Secretary General to the Prime Minister from 1980-1983; Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Cooperatives from 1988-1990; Minister of Science, Technology and Environment in 1990; Deputy Minister of Education, Feb.-June 1995; selected "Boss of the Year 1987" by the Women Secretaries' Association of Thailand; President Emeritus of Bangkok University.
• Chai Suavansri was Director of the Technical Division, Public Prosecution Department, Ministry of Interior.
• Manit Amoradhat was a Judge with the Ministry of Justice.
• Chalerm Tatpiromya was a Presiding Justice of The Supreme Court.
• Junjiro Nishino, the senior Japanese in Thailand prior to his death, was President of the Japanese Association of Thailand; Director of the Japanese Chamber of Commerce; in 1987, received the decoration of Commander-Sacred Treasure of Japan from the Emperor of Japan.
• John R. Hanlon was with Goodyear International Corporation from 1951-1987 holding numerous executive assignments throughout the Far East and in the U.S., including Managing Director for Thailand.
• Leonie Daisy Vejjajiva: UNEP Global 500 Laureate in 1994; awarded the "Kem Patchara Kittyabha" Honorary Parachute Wings by the Special Warfare Division, Royal Thai Army, in 1998; Board Member of the Thailand Business Coalition on AIDS (TBCA); Board Member of the Thai SPCA; Co-Founder of the Wild Animal Rescue Foundation of Thailand; and a Member of the Committee to Establish Ethics for the Treatment of Laboratory Animals, established in 1998 by the National Research Council of Thailand.
• Torajiro Ohashi: Received The Japanese Ministry of International Trade and Industry Award in recognition of his achievements during his 29 years of service in Thailand in October 1994.
• Anongporn Thanachaiary: Elected to Board of Governors of the Law Society of Thailand (now Lawyers Council of Thailand) from 2001-2003 and 2004-2006, and appointed Vice President, Foreign Affairs, from 2004-2007.
• Darani Vachanavuttivong (formerly Vipa Chuenjaipanich): Director of the Intellectual Property Association of Thailand; President (2005-2007), recently elected for another two-year term.
• Timothy R. Wales: Member of the Thai Commercial Arbitration Committee of the Board of Trade of Thailand.
• Wutipong Vechayanon, a former judge of the Central Intellectual Property and International Trade Court, was a member of the Drafting Committee of numerous bills, e.g., E-Commerce, E-Signature, etc.; appointed as the representative of the Ministry of Justice to the UNCITRAL Board Conference, United Nations, New York; selected as Chairman of the ASEAN Working Group which drafted the ASEAN Agreement on Multi Forms of Transportation; and appointed as the representative of Thailand to negotiate in the bilateral agreements between Thailand and Switzerland and between Thailand and Canada on the promotion of investment.

  From 1997 to the present, the firm has consistently been voted by its peers all over the world as among the top two intellectual property firms in Thailand. It won the AsiaLaw award as "Thailand IP Firm" of 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007, the Managing Intellectual Property award as "Firm of the Year - Thailand" of 2007 and 2008, and Asian Counsel's Firm of the Year 2007 for Intellectual Property in Thailand. In addition, in 2007, the firm was the winner of the International Law Office Client Choice Award for Thailand. Several of the firm's partners have been consistently nominated as leading lawyers in their fields: Darani Vachanavuttivong (formerly Vipa Chuenjaipanich), Edward J. Kelly and Edward A. Madden in Intellectual Property; Piyanuj Ratprasatporn in Corporate/M&A and Corporate Immigration; Sriwan Puapondh in Taxation; Tiziana Sucharitkul and John E. King in Dispute Resolution; Thawat Damsa-ard in Litigation and Arbitration; and Anongporn Thanachaiary in Construction & Commercial Property. Cynthia Pornavalai was invited to be a Founding Member of the International Insolvency Institute, a Council Member of Gerson Lehrman Group Councils, and a Member of the Board of TAGLaw. Thanes Periera and Santhapat Periera were appointed advisors to Thai Parliament Sub-Committees, while Woranuch Periera was appointed member of a National Council on Social Welfare of Thailand Committee. Thawat Damsa-ard was presented with an award by The Court of Appeal for his contribution to the law journal, Extradition: Theory and Procedure, and appointed to the Board of Consultants of the Economic and Cyber-Crime Division, The Royal Thai Police Department. Michael Ramirez and John Fotiadis were awarded the American Bar Association's "Rule of Law Award 2007".

The firm's Museum of Counterfeit Goods has been featured on CNN, the BBC-TV, and national television of many countries and in various print media, and is used for education of police and government officials. Because of the firm's successes in anti-counterfeiting activities, it was invited to join the Counterforce Network of the Counterfeiting Intelligence Bureau of the International Chamber of Commerce. The firm's Textile Collection of Tai and other mainland Southeast Asian native textiles is the largest private collection in Thailand open for viewing by the public and has been featured in exhibitions, books, magazines, and television in Thailand and abroad.