Capital Markets - Thailand
Foreign desks
Latham & Watkins is frequently active from its Hong Kong and Singapore offices on Thai capital markets work, including debt issuances, block trades and IPOs. The firm is noted for its representation of leading Thai corporates, as well as foreign companies. The firm acted for the underwriters on the IPO of Thai Life Insurance, worth USD1 billion.
Strengths
"Latham & Watkins have a deep understanding of legal points and are able to explain technicalities in commercial terms. The team are very strong in transaction management and able to manage complex situations."
Notable practitioners
Posit Laohaphan is based in Hong Kong and regularly acts for leading Thai and international corporates on big-ticket M&A and capital market transactions in Thailand. "We rate Posit very highly. He is very switched-on and gets what we need."