Athistha Chitranukroh

• Corporate/M&A

Nop Chitranukroh is a partner and director of Tilleke & Gibbins’ corporate and commercial group. She is one of the leaders of the firm’s technology and insurance teams and regularly advises clients across industries on a wide range of regulatory compliance matters relating to cybersecurity and data privacy, fintech, insurance, insurtech, and payments. She also represents multinational and local financial services, payments, and technology industry clients on a range of strategic matters, including market entry, M&As, and ongoing compliance across Southeast Asia.

Prior to joining Tilleke & Gibbins, Nop served as Thailand general counsel of an American multinational corporation, listed on the New York Stock Exchange, where she oversaw all operations within the legal department in Thailand. Nop was previously Asia-Pacific regional counsel for the same multinational finance and insurance corporation, based in Singapore. She has also served as a legal counsel at an industry-leading Irish-American financial services and software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider of payment processing software and related application programming interfaces (APIs) for e-commerce websites and mobile applications.

Widely recognized as a top practitioner in insurance and TMT legal practice in Southeast Asia, Nop is ranked as a leading lawyer in technology by Chambers Asia-Pacific, a Next Generation Partner in TMT by The Legal 500, a leader for data in Who’s Who Legal Southeast Asia 2022-2024. Most recently, Nop has been named to the Asia Super 50 TMT Lawyers 2023 and 2024 list by Asian Legal Business from Thomson Reuters. Nop has been appointed as the Knowledge Network Chair from IAPP for Thailand for 2024-2026. In 2023, Nop was named one of Asia Super 50 TMT Lawyers by Thomson Reuters’ Asian Legal Business.

Nop is a Certified Information Privacy Professional/Asia (CIPP/A) with the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) and serves as an advisory board member of Insurtech Asia. She has acted as a legal advisor for the Thailand Insurance Association for more than a decade.