Practice Areas
Purachate Manussiripen is a partner in Transactional Practice Group at Baker McKenzie's Bangkok office with practice focus on Corporate, M&A and Private Equity. He joined Baker McKenzie in 2011 and became a partner in 2022. Purachate advises private equity firms, major multinational corporations and private capital clients on a wide range of corporate matters including complicated and strategic cross-border merger and acquisitions transactions for both public and private companies, private equity, joint ventures and strategic alliances, venture capital and significant minority investments, fund raisings, real estate private capital, and distressed M&A transactions.
Purachate covers wide range of sectors including technology, consumer goods & retails, real estate, industrial and manufacturing, healthcare and financial institutions. He also advises on corporate structures and corporate restructuring, corporate management and control, foreign direct investment, regulatory issues and commercial agreements. His expertise extends to real estate funds, real estate trusts and infrastructure funds.
Career
Purachate joined Baker McKenzie in 2011 and became a partner in 2022. With more than a decade of experience, he handles a huge range of deals and transactions and has gained a deftness in complicated and strategic cross-border transactions such as mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, private equity investments, corporate structures and restructurings, business integrations, real estate transactions and real estate private capital investment.
He was also instrumental in the establishment of Thailand's first real estate investment trust, Thailand's first offshore hospitality real estate investment trust and Thailand's first energy-related infrastructure fund, which have marked the significance in alternative fundraising in the Thai capital market.