Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu has employed companions Supasit Boonsanong and Charuwan Charoonchitsathian as a part of a six-lawyer staff for its Bangkok workplace to bolster its capabilities in vitality and know-how, media and telecommunications (TMT) for each Japanese and worldwide company shoppers.
“Their [Boonsanong and Charoonchitsathian] mixed expertise will allow us to supply complete authorized help in renewable vitality undertaking growth, regulatory compliance and coverage advocacy, and mergers and acquisitions (M&A) within the vitality sector,” Shohei Sasaki, companion and head of Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu’s Bangkok workplace, instructed Asia Enterprise Legislation Journal.
Boonsanong and Charoonchitsathian have joined the agency from Tilleke & Gibbins the place they each served as companions, with the opposite 4 attorneys from the identical Thai agency having joined as associates.
Boonsanong brings greater than 15 years of expertise as in-house counsel for Thailand’s Nationwide Petrochemical Firm, adopted by over twenty years practising vitality regulation. He advises vitality corporations on undertaking growth, joint ventures, licensing, provide, building and financing agreements. He additionally leads the authorized staff advising Thai authorities on petroleum regulation amendments
Charoonchitsathian is a company, business and joint ventures lawyer, famend for advising and representing shoppers in a wide selection of transactions in Thailand. She offers authorized counsel on enterprise operations, M&A and a spectrum of high-value non-public M&A issues, together with share buybacks, takeovers and different strategic transactions. Her experience extends to providing regulatory recommendation in sectors akin to renewable vitality, fintech, fee programs, OTT (over-the-top), IoT (web of issues) and TMT.
Whereas the agency didn’t formally place Boonsanong and Charoonchitsathian as heads of a apply group, it anticipated them to tackle management roles within the vitality and TMT apply, mentioned Sasaki. They might contribute their experience throughout associated areas akin to building, undertaking finance, company and M&A, he added.
Sasaki additionally highlighted the shift in direction of clear vitality sources in Thailand, akin to photo voltaic farms, floating photo voltaic, rooftop photo voltaic and waste-to-energy initiatives. He mentioned these developments required deep experience in undertaking growth, financing and regulatory compliance.
He added that governments have been introducing new legal guidelines to deal with local weather change and promote inexperienced vitality. A major instance was Thailand’s upcoming Local weather Change Act, which might introduce mechanisms akin to carbon pricing and emissions buying and selling, mentioned Sasaki.
The draft modification to the Petroleum Act was additionally being developed to help carbon seize, utilisation and storage, added Sasaki.
By leveraging Boonsanong and Charoonchitsathian’s data and expertise, the agency goals to supply its shoppers with the authorized recommendation essential to navigate this altering vitality panorama and capitalise on new alternatives, mentioned Sasaki.
