Two high-net-worth Thai individuals acquire 61% shares of Nation Broadcasting Corporation PCL. from Nation Group (Thailand) PCL. for a total value of THB 898 million.

Kudun and Partners represented two high-net-worth Thai individuals on their acquisition of approximately 61% shares in Nation Broadcasting Corporation Public Company Limited from Nation Group (Thailand) Public Company Limited for a total value of THB 898 million.

Kudun and Partners represented Platt Finserve Co., Ltd. in the sale of 50% of the total issued shares from Cash Machine Capital Company Limited to Sabuy Technology Public Company Limited (SABUY)

Kudun and Partners represented Platt Finserve Co., Ltd. in the sale of 50% of the total issued shares from Cash Machine Capital Company Limited to Sabuy Technology Public Company Limited (SABUY) for a total value of THB 1.13 billion. The acquisition is part of SABUY’s business expansion into automated teller machines (ATMs) as Platt Finserve …

Kudun and Partners represents Ichitan Group PCL. on its acquisition of shares in Predictive Co., Ltd.

Kudun and Partners represented Ichitan Group Public Company Limited—a leading and hugely popular Thai beverage company that manufactures a wide range of beverages such as green tea, herbal, fruit, and energy drink—with respect to the acquisition of newly issued ordinary shares of Predictive Co., Ltd. for a total value of THB 122.6 million.

Kudun and Partners represents Quantifi Photonics Limited on its acquisition of shares in SmarTest Thailand

Kudun and Partners represented Quantifi Photonics Limited, a company headquartered in New Zealand and an expert in harnessing, manipulating, and measuring the physical properties of light, with respect to the indirect share acquisition of SmarTest Thailand Ltd., a designer and manufacturer of high-speed test and measurement equipment used in optical communication, semiconductor manufacturing, and defense …

Bär & Karrer Advises Archroma (SK Capital) on the Acquisition of Huntsman’s Textile Effects Division

Archroma, a portfolio company of SK Capital Partners, has entered into a definitive agreement with Huntsman Corporation to acquire Huntsman’s Textile Effects division. The transaction is subject to regulatory approvals and other customary closing conditions and is expected to close in the first half of 2023.Bär & Karrer acts as Swiss legal advisor to Archroma …

Austria/CEE: Schoenherr advises on the sale of significant parts of Kontron Group’s IT services business in eleven countries for EUR 400m

Schoenherr advised stock exchange listed technology group Kontron AG (formerly S&T AG) on the sale of significant parts of Kontron Group’s IT services business to VINCI Energies S.A. in the course of a competitive auction process for a purchase price of approx. EUR 400m.

ROMANIA – NEW LEGISLATION ON REPRESENTATIVE OFFICES

1. Overview On August 4, 2022, Ordinance no. 18/2022 on the authorization and functioning of representative offices of foreign companies and economic organizations in Romania (“GO 18/2022”) adopted by the Romanian Government has been published in the Official Gazette.

Thailand’s digital asset market further boosted by exemption from 7% VAT when trading on authorized exchanges

Following the abolition of the requirement to pay personal income tax on capital gains from cryptocurrency and digital asset trading on authorized digital asset exchanges in March 2022, the Thai Government has further eased tax rules by suspending the requirement to pay 7% value-added tax (“VAT”) on income derived from cryptocurrency and digital token trading …

REIT Buy-Back Update

Following the launch of a real estate investment trust with buy-back condition (the “REIT buy-back”), which we extensively covered in our last article, “Overview of REITs with buy-back conditions: The new mechanisms to help real estate owners survive in the midst of Covid-19”, aiming to alleviate the woes that business operators, particularly the hospitality sector, …

BOI Approves Updated Investment Measures to Boost EV Charging Stations Businesses

Following its initiative to encourage investment in the electric vehicles (EV) sector in 2017, the Office of the Board of Investment (“BOI”) anticipates the expansion of the domestic market for EV manufacturing in Thailand, as it encourages consumers to embrace utilizing EVs. Therefore, the BOI has regularly updated its policy to promote investment in the …