We provide legal advice and handle legal services in business law, dispute resolution and litigation. Our services include planning entity structure, formation, drafting, commenting and negotiating of commercial contracts. Below, please find a brief of our professional legal services.
Corporate and Commercial
- Advice on the legal requirements of foreign business law and planning entity structure or restructuring for foreign investors, Thai investors and tax;
- Drafting joint venture agreement, shareholders’ agreement, share subscription agreement, share option agreement, share pledge agreement, loan agreement;
- Incorporation of new companies, limited partnership, group of people, etc.;
- Applying for foreign business license, Thai-US Treaty Protection, Representative Office, Regional Office, Branch Office, etc.;
- Applying for Board of Investment (“BOI”) promotion;
- Applying for industrial estate promotion;
- Applying for any government licenses and approvals;
- Applying in relation to taxation matters;
- Applying for setting up of new factory and relevant licenses;
- Corporate compliance such as annual general meeting, work regulations, annual taxes, etc.;
- Drafting in commercial contracts such as sale and purchase agreement, lease agreement, service agreement, hire-purchase agreement, consultancy agreement, performance bond, etc.
Immigration and Work Permit
- Legal advice and planning for expatriates’ immigration and work permit;
- Applying for permit-to-stay;
- Applying for re-entry visa;
- Applying for work permit and renewal of work permit;
- Applying for permanent residence;
- Applying for notification of 90-day stay in Thailand;
- Applying for urgent duty of work permit;
- Applying for surrender of work permit upon the completion of work assignment;
- Applying for any amendments, etc.
Customs
- Legal advice on Customs’ regulations and tariff;
- Applying for manager’s Customs Card;
- Applying for Power of Attorney’s Customs Card, etc.
Merger and Acquisition
- Legal advice on merger and acquisition, take over of the target business, purchase of shares and/or assets;
- Legal advice on requirements in relation to the target business;
- Dealing with the financial advisor, conducting legal due diligence on private limited company, listed and non-listed public limited company to examine all legal compliances such as corporate, securities, finance, taxation, commercial agreements, assets, licenses, labour and employments, intellectual property, litigation, etc.
- Restructuring companies, drafting sales and purchase shares and/or assets agreements, shareholders’ agreement, subscription agreement, confidentiality agreement, other relevant agreements, terminate or transfer of employment, applying relevant licenses and other changes in target companies to fulfill the merger and acquisition, etc.
Real Estate
- Legal advice and planning structure for foreign investors to acquire the land and/or create the real rights over the land and/or erections thereon;
- Tax planning for the real estate;
- Drafting sale and purchase, lease, service agreements in relation to land and erection thereon, hotel, condominium unit, office premise, furniture, fittings and equipment, service apartment, servitude agreement, operation and management agreement;
- Manage local registrations in relation to the ownership and real rights of and over land and erection thereon, etc.
Intellectual Properties
- Legal advice on intellectual properties such as trademarks, copyrights, patents, trade secrets, IT and telecommunication, franchises and licenses;
- Manage local and overseas registrations of intellectual property rights
and licenses; - Drafting distributorship agreement, software license & service agreement, trademark license agreement, patent license agreement, technical know-how and technical assistant agreement, franchising agreement, etc.
Employment
- Legal advice on the labour laws;
- Employment agreements;
- Work regulations;
- Executive remuneration packages;
- Employment benefits;
- Labour relation and trade union issues;
- Termination of employment;
- Legal compliances, etc.
Litigation
- Legal advice on the litigation matters;
- Litigation in relation to general commercial dispute, corporate, insurance, inheritance, construction, real estate, employment, intellectual property, international trade, etc.
Securities
- Legal advice on securities laws;
- Conduct a legal due diligence of the target company;
- Planning schedule for the period of listing;
- Preparing documents to convert limited company into a public limited company and restructuring of such target company and registration arrangement;
- Commenting documents for IPO, draft prospectus and registration arrangement with SEC, SET and Ministry of Commerce;
- Preparing and registering the paid-up shares, etc.
Taxation
- Legal advice in relation to taxes;
- Tax planning to reduce cost of business;
- Tax advice and planning of techniques for foreign and local companies under both private and government projects for investors in Thailand and overseas;
- Tax advice for joint ventures between local and foreign company.
