Our Story

Our Story

It is my great pleasure to extend a warm welcome to all visitors to the Lockton Wattana website.

Lockton Wattana is one of the leading insurance brokers and risk consultants in Thailand. We have been providing our “service excellence” that has been a hallmark of our success for more than thirty years. This has culminated in our winning the Thai Prime Minister’s Insurance Award for Outstanding Non-Life Insurance Broker for the last 8 consecutive years.

Our success is a result of our accumulative wealth of expertise and experiences in the risk management and insurance field. With our professional resources, we are dedicated to render quality services to help our clients better manage their risks. We also have a good relationship and receive strong support from our local and overseas business partners.

Being part of Lockton, the leading global insurance brokers based in the US, Lockton Wattana benefit from the technical support from our principal. Lockton Group’s worldwide network and presence also enables us to give our insurance services to all multi-national clients wherever they are.

In recognition of the rapid changes in the business world, our website will be regularly updated to meet all evolving needs. I hope the information here will be useful to you. Thank you for your interest and look forward to having the chances to provide our service to you.

Wattana Wongvisesnopakun
Executive Chairman

Our Milestones

1984	Wattana Wongvisesnopakun established Wattana Associates Co., Ltd. in Bangkok, Thailand.
1986	Wattana Associates expanded business by entering into a joint-venture with Citicorp Insurance Group.
1989	Citicorp took over Nelson Hurst International Group, an insurance broker in U.K.
1990	Wattana Associates became part of a management buyout by Nelson Hurst International Group.
1997	Price Forbes Group from South Africa had acquired Nelson Hurst.
1999	Price Forbes Group and Nelson Hurst were globally merged, led to rename the company as Alexander Forbes Wattana Co., Ltd.
2006	Lockton, the largest independent and privately owned insurance broker in U.S.A, acquired stakes in Alexander Forbes International Risk Services – as a result, the company was rebranded to Lockton Wattana Insurance Brokers (Thailand) Ltd.
2008	Lockton Wattana won Prime Minister’s Insurance Award for Outstanding Non-Life Insurance Broker for the first year and has continuously won the award in 8 consecutive years from 2008 – 2015.
2014	In our 30th anniversary, Lockton Wattana achieved premiums over THB 10 billion.
2016	Lockton Wattana was appointed as Lockton regional office representative in Thailand to expand insurance broking business in APAC region.Lockton Wattana was appointed as Lockton regional office representative in Thailand to expand insurance broking business in APAC region.