Participants Profile

Founded in 2005, Thanathip & Partners in a short time has built a track record that proves its excellent reputation among marquee clients. It has risen to the top echelons of legal practice in Thailand, shortlisted as one of the five candidates for The CHAMBERS Asia Awards-Thailand 2010". Since then, the firm has consistently been recognised by various reputable legal publications including Chambers & Partners, Legal 500, IFLR1000 and Asialaw Profiles, as one of the leading domestic law firms in Thailand in all of its core practice areas. Besides, our partners have long been and continue to be featured annually in Chambers and Partners' lawyers ranking, and as "Leading Individuals" by Legal 500, "Top 100 A- List Lawyers" by Asia Business Law Journal, and "Highly Regarded" lawyers by IFLR1000 We provide comprehensive advice and services on private and public takeovers and complex M&A transactions. Also, we are very well placed to advise a broad range of Thai securities laws, including not only regulatory and compliance, but also a variety of equity and debt capital markets transactions and REITs. Our team has extensive experience as Thai counsels in a number of high profile concurrent equity domestic and international offerings under Rule 144A and Regulation S of U.S. Securities Act, including a number of ground breaking transactions in Thailand history. Apart from Thai, foreign and multinational corporations, our clients include both Thai and foreign investment banks and world leading PEs and offshore funds. We have in-depth knowledge and extensive experiences in Thai banking regulations and, together with our M&A and capital markets specialists, are very well placed to advise our clients in complexed banking and financing transactions, restructuring and insolvency (R&I), M&A, and banking regulations and compliance including those concerning fintech, electronic payment and personal data protection. Financing, M&A and Banking Regulations We offer both transactional and regulatory advice and services to not only international and domestic lenders, non-bank financial institutions, and fintech companies but also investment banks, corporate and PE clients in connection with their investment in commercial banks, non-bank and fintech companies. As part of our main practice areas, we have assisted clients in various cross border transactions including Chinese and Japanese deals, and in various aspects of transactions ranging from bidding and auction sale, IPO and international offerings and listings, private equity and asset and investment management, privatisation and government relations and restructuring and insolvency (R&I). We also actively advise clients on a variety of regulatory frameworks including data protection, merger control and fintech and electronic payment as well as those relating to tech and startup companies.