Thanathip & Partners Legal Counsellors Limited > Bangkok, Thailand > Firm Profile
Thanathip & Partners Legal Counsellors Limited Offices
17TH FLOOR, TONSON TOWER
900 PLOENCHIT ROAD, LUMPINI, PATHUMWAN
BANGKOK 10330
Thailand
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Thanathip & Partners Legal Counsellors Limited > The Legal 500 Rankings
Thailand > Corporate and M&A Tier 2
With a client roster that includes publicly listed companies, private equity firms, start-ups and fintech companies, Thanathip & Partners Legal Counsellors Limited is regularly engaged by clients for advice regarding a broad array of M&A, joint ventures and public takeovers. The practice is jointly led by Thanathip Pichedvanichok and Chawaluck Sivayathorn Araneta, who both possess a wealth of experience in handling high-profile transactions, private and public M&A and various joint ventures.Practice head(s):
Thanathip Pichedvanichok; Chawaluck Sivayathorn Araneta
Other key lawyers:
Nat Boonjunwetvat; Kornjan Tangkrisanakajorn; Nitchaya Vaneesorn
Key clients
Linden Capital Partners
Streetcorner Ecommerce
Bain Capital Credit
Eatlab
Kasikorn Vision (Kasikornbank)
Ngernturbo
Polar Bear Mission
Unison Group
Tradewater International
BSCM Foods
Tencent
Navis Capital Partners
Mr. Surachai Chetchotisak
KASIKORN INVESTURE (Kasikornbank)
Work highlights
- Advised Unison Group, a leading pharmaceutical and healthcare products manufacturer and distributor across Thailand and overseas, on the disposal of equity interest in companies within the group to B.Grimm Healthcare.
- Advised Tencent, a world-leading internet and technology company and also China’s biggest social network and gaming company, and its group companies on their further investment in Series C fundraising by Ookbee.
- Advised Kasikorn Vision, a wholly owned subsidiary of Kasikornbank, in its joint venture with J Asset Management, a wholly owned subsidiary of JMT Network Services, under the name “JK Asset Management” engaging in managing non-performing loans and non-performing assets.
Thanathip & Partners Legal Counsellors Limited > Firm Profile
Thanathip & Partners is a boutique law firm, specialising in corporate finance, M&A, banking, and general commercial transactions. We are driven to excel in everything we do, and have a proven track record in managing high-profile transactions for a number of leading corporate and financial institutions in Thailand and in several other jurisdictions. Whilst we encourage a culture of creative thinking, enabling us to find innovative legal solutions, Thanathip & Partners will never compromise on integrity, either in our advice, or in our actions.
Our highly-specialised team has in-depth understanding of legal issues in Thailand and are widely-recognised for their high standards of service, and their attention-to-detail. We have a unique combination of experiences, which enables us to provide integrated and practical advice. These attributes, along with the exemplary relationships we maintain with our clients, help explain the respect and notoriety that we, Thanathip & Partners, command within our chosen fields.
Founded in 2005, Thanathip and Partners 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, not only has the firm been consistently recognised by various reputable publications including Chambers & Partners, The Legal 500 Asia Pacific, IFLR1000 and Asialaw Profiles, as one of the leading domestic law firms in Thailand in all core practice areas, but our partners have also been featured as highly regarded and leading lawyers in their practice areas.
- Specifically, our founding partner, Mr Thanathip Pichedvanichok, has been recognised as:
“Distinguished Practitioner” for Corporate and M&A by Asialaw Leading Lawyers since 2019 to date;
“Highly regarded” lawyer for Capital Markets and M&A by IFLR1000;
“Band 2” individual lawyer for Corporate and M&A and “Band 3” individual lawyer for Capital Markets by Chambers Asia-Pacific 2022 Guide; and
“Top 100 “A List” Lawyers” by Asia Business Law Journal since 2017 to date.
- Our co-founding partner, Ms Arunee Mahathorn, has been regarded as:
“Top 100 “A List” Lawyers” by Asia Business Law Journal since 2017 to date; and
“Highly regarded” lawyer for Banking and Project Finance by IFLR1000.
At Thanathip & Partners, we take pride in advising a number of award-winning deals, including:
Advising Banpu Power Public Company Limited in its US$389m domestic and international initial public offering. The transaction was regarded as the largest Thai IPO of 2016, according to Finance Asia, and was awarded “2016 Best Country Deals” for Thailand and “Asia’s Standout Deal” for Thailand by Global Capital Asia. In addition, the deal was awarded “the Outstanding Deal of the Year 2016” by the Stock Exchange of Thailand.
Advising Bangkok Commercial Asset Management Public Company Limited (BAM), a large state-owned enterprise in a financial sector, and its shareholder, the Financial Institutions Development Fund, in connection with the privatization and domestic and international initial public offering of BAM. This IPO was considered the biggest privatization in Thailand and the largest initial public offering of the financial institution in Southeast Asia and was awarded the “Deal of the Year 2020” by the Stock Exchange of Thailand.
Whilst M&A, capital markets, and banking and finance have long been and remain our core areas of expertise and our work is predominantly transactional, we do provide a wide range of regulatory advice on general commercial contract as well as a number of certain specific industries. In particular, we have recently grown and extended our capability to the areas of merger control, FinTech and payment, financing M&A and banking regulations, technologies and start ups, as well as data protection.
We serve and advise clients which are private and publicly listed companies and state-own enterprises in various industries including:
- Bank and non-bank
- Consumer, food, and retails
- Healthcare
- Industrials and manufacturing
- Insurance
- Media, telecommunications and entertainment
- Power, energy, and natural resources
- Real estate and hospitality
- Securities and asset management
With extensive experience in assisting leading companies, investment banks and international clients, including world and regional private equity funds and global law firms, our team understand and appreciate their commercial objectives and requirements for quick response and practical solutions.
Main Contacts
Department | Name | Telephone | |
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M&A, Capital Markets, Corporate Finance | Thanathip Pichedvanichok | thanathip@thanathippartners.com | +6620898989 |
Banking & Finance, Restructuring & Insolvency, Corporate, General Commercial Transaction | Arunee Mahathorn | arunee@thanathippartners.com | +6620898999 |
M&A, Capital Markets, Corporate, General Commercial Transactions | Chawaluck Sivayathorn Araneta | chawaluck@thanathippartners.com | +6620899878 |
M&A, Fintech, Data Protection, Corporate, General Commercial Transactions | Nat Boonjunwetvat | nat@thanathippartners.com | +6620898988 |
M&A, Capital Markets, Corporate Finance | Kornjan Tangkrisanakajorn | kornjan@thanathippartners.com | +6620898998 |
M&A, Capital Markets and Corporate | Nitchaya Vaneesorn | nitchaya@thanathippartners.com | +6620898959 |
Lawyer Profiles
Photo | Name | Position | Profile |
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Mr Nat Boonjunwetvat | Partner specialising in mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, fintech, electronic payments and… | View Profile | |
Ms Arunee Mahathorn | Senior Partner | View Profile | |
Mr Thanathip Pichedvanichok | Senior Partner | View Profile | |
Ms Chawaluck Sivayathorn Araneta | Managing Partner | View Profile | |
Ms Kornjan Tangkrisanakajorn | Partner, specialising in corporate, private and public M&A, capital markets, start-ups, and privacy… | View Profile | |
Ms Nitchaya Vaneesorn | Partner, specialisng in M&A, Capital Markets and Corporate | View Profile |
Staff Figures
Partners : 6 Associates : 23 Supporting staff : 12Languages
English Thai- Corporate and M&A