Banking & Project Finance; Corporate & Commercial Transactions; Energy Sector; Government Contracts & Construction Law; Intellectual Property & Information Technology; Litigation & Dispute Resolution by Arbitration; Mergers & Acquisitions; Securities; Taxation; Telecommunications; Translation & Interpretation Services
The Legists Ltd. was established in 2003 by Nopadol Intralib and Khaisri Utaiwan and their core team of six professionals. Both founding partners are former equity partners of White & Case LLP, name partners of Nopadol & Khaisri Law Office Ltd., one of Thailand’s best corporate and commercial law firms at the time, and equity partners of International Legal Counsellors Thailand Ltd. The Legists’ team of professionals comprises some of the foremost attorneys in Bangkok.
Professionalism, Integrity and Excellence are the abiding principles to which The Legists adhere and which The Legists’ clients can always expect of the firm.
The Legists provide a full range of quality legal services for clients in such diverse sectors as infrastructure & construction; oil & gas; power & utilities; chemicals & petrochemicals; cement & heavy manufacturing; banking, finance & securities; telecommunications; service and tourism.
PRACTICE AREAS
Banking and Project Finance: The Legists have extensive experience in secured, unsecured, syndicated, non-syndicated, single and multicurrency lending; project and utility financing; swaps and hedging; public financing; portfolio management; and workouts.
Corporate and Commercial Transactions: The Legists provide legal advice and analysis concerning the formation of all types of corporate entities; regulatory compliance; Board of Investment promotion; Free Trade Areas; the Industrial Estate Authority of Thailand; and permits and approvals.
Energy Sector: The Legists represent major oil, gas, coal, hydroelectric power and utility operators, both green field and secondary purchase, including handling negotiations with Thai and Lao government agencies; drafting of oil refinery, concession and power purchase agreements; and EPC and long-term service contracts.
Environment: The Legists provide advice on environmental issues, including environmental impact and risk assessment, waste disposal, recycling and transportation permissions, chemical and hazardous substance handling, water production and wastewater treatment facilities.
Government Contracts and Construction Law: The Legists comprise Thailand’s leading government contract and construction attorneys involved in almost every large infrastructure project in the last 21 years, including the first Thai B-T-O expressway and subway projects, and regularly drafts and negotiates concession, EPC, project finance and O&M contracts.
Human Resources: The Legists provide advice on both expatriate and domestic employees of multinational corporations, including work permits and long-term visas for expatriate personnel, employment matters and work rules.
Intellectual Property and Information Technology: In addition to trade and service mark registration, infringement claims, drafting and negotiation of licensing, distribution and confidentiality agreements, The Legists represent Thai banks and mobile phone concessionaires with IT contracts.
Litigation and Dispute Resolution by Arbitration: The Legists have successfully litigated cases on behalf of our clients against government entities, such as the over Six Billion Baht award to a turnkey contractor, one of Thailand’s highest arbitration awards; the related Thai Civil Court enforcement proceedings; the pending Eight Billion Baht arbitration in relation to the expressway projects; and debt restructuring and bankruptcy cases.
Mergers and Acquisitions: The Legists have represented clients from Europe, the Americas and Asia in large multinational, cross jurisdictional acquisitions of and mergers with Thai companies, as well as in corporatization and privatization.
Securities: The Legists provide advice on the public and private offering of shares, debentures, notes, bonds and other types of structured products; prospectus drafting and SEC filings; public company conversion, IPOs and share listing on the SET; ESOP property fund establishment; securitization and regulatory compliance.
Taxation: The Legists’ tax practice includes multi-jurisdictional tax planning; M&A; audits; transfer pricing; foreign currency borrowings; foreign tax credits; joint ventures; double taxation and other treaty-related matters; and repatriation of earnings.
Telecommunications Sector: The Legists represent leading local and international telecommunications operators, carriers and service providers of cellular, radar and radiocommunication from operation, concession, contract drafting and negotiation to dispute resolution.
Translation and Interpretation Services: The Legists are recognized as having one of the best teams in Thailand for translation of all types of legal documents.
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