Hunton & Williams has picked up Coudert Brothers’ Bangkok office – which was formerly the local branch of magic circle leader Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer – as the US firm doubles the size of its Thai practice.

The team, headed by partners Stephen Bennett and Surasak Vajasit, plus 12 associates, joins the Richmond-based firm’s Bangkok office, which launched in 1997 and currently has 10 lawyers.