Saravut Krailadsiri

Partner

Kudun & Partners

Saravut Krailadsiri is partner at Kudun & Partners Limited with a principal focus for the past two decades on tax law, corporate restructuring and cross border M&As. He has represented both Thai and multinational companies investing in petroleum exploration and production in Thailand on legal and tax matters with respect to petroleum laws, petroleum income tax and other laws pertaining to the transfer of participating interest in petroleum concessions and operation of petroleum activities in Thailand.  He has solid expertise in tax law with respect to M&As, energy (oil & gas), power plants, technology start-ups and e-commerce:

• Legal and tax counsel for the restructuring and entire business transfer of group company and risk management.
• Tax manager of PTT Exploration and Production PLC as relates to the exploration and production businesses and taxes on investment structures and tax compliance.
• Advising property developers on tax structures for real estate acquisition as relates to income tax, withholding tax, VAT, SBT, stamp duty and House and Land tax.
• Providing tax management and planning for setting up the proper entity for investment and development projects in ASEAN countries.

Recent transactional highlights:

• Legal and tax services on the acquisition of shares of a major logistics company by way of entire business transfer arrangements.
• Acting as legal and tax counsel in connection with corporate restructuring and tax management planning for an IPO with an approximate value of THB 23.7 billion.
• Legal services in relation to the operation of exploration and production of petroleum in Thailand of a Hong Kong based company.
• Acting as legal and tax counsel in connection with the establishment of an International Headquarter for the tax management of a company’s power businesses.

Paul Westover

Partner

Stephenson Harwood

Paul Westover is an experienced expert in all areas of corporate/commercial work with a particular focus on mergers and acquisitions, specifically cross-border, related due diligence, private equity and inward investment into Asia. He also advises clients on corporate governance at a domestic and international level.

Paul heads the corporate group in Hong Kong.

Paul has extensive experience of acquisitions and disposals across the Asia region and his broad expertise and sensible approach is appreciated by clients, particularly in structuring transactions and on matters of corporate policy.

Paul also specialises in advising on complex commercial agreements in a range of industries, including manufacturing, supply chain, technology, sports and entertainment. Other areas where Paul has solid experience is in fund formation, principally advising managers or general partners and in joint ventures, restructuring and general insolvency advice to corporates and directors.

As part of Paul's corporate practice, he is frequently called upon to advise on related employment matters, including preparing employment agreements, advising on share options and other employee incentive schemes.

Alongkorn Tongmee

Attorney-at-Law

Tilleke & Gibbins

Alongkorn Tongmee is an Attorney-at-Law in the Tilleke & Gibbins dispute resolution department. He provides pre-litigation advice concerning various legal issues and represents plaintiffs and defendants in civil and criminal cases related to contracts, wrongful acts, family disputes, business reorganization and bankruptcy, and immigration and work permit matters.

He is a well-rounded attorney, having previously practiced with the firm’s corporate and commercial team. In this capacity, he handled corporate matters and advised on business establishment, commercial agreements, family matters, and applications for visas, permanent residence permits, and work permits.

He has completed the Barrister-at-Law requirements of the Institute of Legal Education, Thai Bar Association.

Athistha (Nop) Chitranukroh

Partner

Tilleke & Gibbins

Athistha (Nop) Chitranukroh is a Partner and Deputy Director of Tilleke & Gibbins’ corporate and commercial group, head of the firm’s insurance practice, and joint head of the firm's technology industry group. She represents multinational and local insurers and reinsurers on a range of key matters, including market entry, M&As, insurtech, and regulatory compliance across Southeast Asia. She also regularly advises technology clients on privacy and data protection, fintech, regtech, digital currencies, and more.

Prior to joining Tilleke & Gibbins, she served as General Counsel of an American multinational corporation, listed on the New York Stock Exchange, where she oversaw all operations within the legal department in Thailand. She was responsible for a wide range of legal and regulatory issues in Thailand and other Southeast Asian countries, and led significant restructuring, business expansion, and regional shared service projects. She was previously an Asia-Pacific Regional Legal Counsel for the same multinational corporation in Singapore. She also worked in private practice for almost a decade at the Bangkok office of a leading international law firm.

She serves as an advisor to the Thai General Insurance Association, an advisory board member of Insurtech Asia, and the firm’s representative to the Thai Fintech Association. She is ranked as a Band 2 practitioner in Chambers Asia-Pacific 2018,  and recognized as an “authority on non-contentious insurance” by Asialaw Profiles.  In 2018 she was named one of Asia's top 40 lawyers under 40 by Thomson Reuters' Asian Legal Business. 

Nuanchun Somboonvinij

Attorney-at-Law

Tilleke & Gibbins

Nuanchun Somboonvinij is a litigator in the firm’s dispute resolution group. She has handled a wide range of complex litigation matters, drawing upon her previous experience managing assets and employees for multinational corporations. Her business background, including earning a Business Administration degree in Thailand and an MBA in the United States, benefits her corporate clients who count on her for pragmatic advice, sound solutions, innovative dispute resolution strategies, and, if necessary, aggressive litigation.

Julien Pochet

General Counsel

Engie

Julien Pochet,a Belgian citizen, has more than 20 years of legal experience, with 10 years accumulated from the ENGIE Group, and displays unparalleled knowledge on the ENGIE Group’s history, experiences, aims, and objectives. He graduated with distinction in law in 1995 from U.C.L., Louvain-la-Neuve and secured an international law degree in 1996 from Rijksuniverstiteit Leiden, the Netherlands and a Master in International Politic at the U.L.B in Brussels.

He started his career as a corporate lawyer for top tier international law firms (Allen & Overy, CMS Mc Kenna) and renowned practitioners in Belgium (with a secondment of 6 months in London) focusing on Merger and Acquisition, litigation of minority shareholders and capital market transactions. In 2004, he made a career move joining as in-house counsel the Belgian Post (now BPost) assisting the semi-privatisation of this former administration.

After having closed that transaction, he joined in 2007 the ENGIE Group (formerly called GDF SUEZ) starting as Chief Legal Officer for the Commodity & Portfolio Management Trading business in Belgium. After 4 years, he then moved in 2011 to Chile as General Counsel Chile where he was focusing on developing energy projects.

In 2015, he left Chile for Thailand and assume since April 2015 the position of General Counsel & Ethics Officer of Business Unit Asia-Pacific, which position he continues to occupy to-date. Under his leadership his team has been selected in 2018 as a member of the Legal 500 GC Powerlist Southeast Asia and he has been recently selected as a member of the 2019 Legal 500 GC Powerlist for Southeast Asia.

Jackson Pek

Group Chief Legal Counsel

Air Asia

Jackson Pek oversees corporate and legal affairs worldwide for the AirAsia Group, Asia's leading low-cost airline serving more than 130 destinations across Asia, the Pacific, the Middle East and the U.S.

Prior to joining AirAsia in 2018, he served as Vice President and General Counsel, Asia Pacific for global travel technology company Amadeus.

Before joining Amadeus in 2006, Jackson was a senior attorney at IBM for Asean and South Asia. He also practised law in the US and Asia with global law firms White & Case and Skadden Arps and served on the faculty of the National University of Singapore (NUS) Law School.

A frequent speaker at industry events, he has presented at international conferences organized by the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO), International Air Transport Association (IATA) and Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA).

He holds business and law degrees from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and from New York University School of Law.

Maprang Sombatthai

Head of Legal

Line Corporation

Maprang Sombatthai is a qualified attorney who has experiences working as an associate in law firm and in-house legal counsel for more than 10 years.  Previously, she was specialized in litigation / insurance legal matters.  Currently, she is the Head of Legal at LINE Company (Thailand) and specialized in commercial legal matters for tech industry.

Jasreen Singh

Group Legal Counsel

dwp International Limited

Jarseen Singh is an innovative and experienced legal counsel with significant experience in ASEAN markets. With 13 years of legal advisory experience, 8 years of which have been spent in in-house role, she have advised and represented on complex legal issues relating to Telecommunication, Information Technology, Real Estate and Architecture & Designing. During my stint with Lao subsidiary of VEON Limited (previously known as VimpelCom), a NASDAQ listed company, she played an active role in setting up the compliance process and systems. In addition to her advisory experience, she also have experience in Indian court litigation and international dispute resolution. In my current role, as General Counsel to DWP (leading design and architecture firm with offices in 8 countries), she advise on wide spectrum of legal issues in Asia, Australia and Middle East. Among other responsibilities, she actively participate in International Arbitration, oversee litigation cases across 8 countries and advise on all legal and compliance matters.

She graduated from Symbiosis Law School, University of Pune, India and a member of the Bar Council of India.

Florence Lomaglio

Group Healthcare & Consumer Goods Lead Counsel

DKSH

Florence Lomaglio is a dual-qualified lawyer from Switzerland and England and Wales. She has been practicing in Asia for 10 years. She worked 4 years in Tokyo, Japan and another 4 years in HCMC, Vietnam for established law firms, advising foreign investors. She conducted lobbying activities in Vietnam as vice-chairwoman of the European Chamber of Commerce Green Sector Committee. She relocated to Bangkok end of 2016 to join DKSH as Group legal head for the healthcare division, as well as the consumer goods division since 2018. DKSH is a leading market expansion services provider for companies willing to grow their business in Asia.

Methat Anansirinong

Senior Vice President, Legal Department

Lazada Thailand Ltd.

On top of his early professional years in intellectual property law firms and hospitality businesses, Methat had extended his intensive drill and practice to anti-corruption compliance and internal control system with several multinational automotive companies (e.g. Mercedes-Benz, Nissan, BMW).  Never ceased to pursue the next challenge beyond his comfort zone, Methat has recently decided to embark on a fresh legal journey in the e-commerce world where he takes the lead in tackling the soaring legal dispute and striking the balance in the government affairs matters.  Presently, he holds the position of Senior Vice President, Legal Department, Lazada Thailand Ltd.

Sirinut Thangthumachit

Security Engineer

Electric Transactions Development Agency (ETDA)

Sirinut is currently the Security Engineer at Electronic Transactions Development Agency (ETDA) – a Public Organisation. Prior joining ETDA, he was with the Ministry of ICT, Thailand. He was in-charged of IT crime investigation, digital forensics and involved with the digital economy promotion in Thailand.

He is a GIAC Certified Forensic Analyst – GCFA, GIAC Certified Incident Handler – GCIH, Certified Ethical Hacker v8, EC Council, Certified Fundamental Information Technology Engineers Examination.

Omar Mahmood

Product Specialist, Legal

Thomson Reuters

Omar Mahmood completed his LLB (2009) and LPC (2013) at the University of Manchester and the University of Law respectively.

He has worked as a paralegal in London, Dubai and Abu Dhabi; both in private practice and in-house.

Having relocated to Singapore, he was approached by Thomson Reuters to join as a Product Specialist due to his legal background and his familiarity with their legal platforms. Throughout his career and during his time as a student, he has been an active and avid user of Westlaw. He also has experience with using Practical Law during my time at Arabtec when he worked in-house.

His experience of communicating to a large group of people, who were either clients, or potential clients – at events at which he was selected to speak and market services – was invaluable to his current role. He has been providing training to customers for legal products for the past year and have received positive feedback for my sessions.

Christophe Francois

Associate General Counsel

Agoda

Christophe is an innovative and business-savvy leader with 19 years of progressive experience across business operations and legal leadership functions.  He is currently the Associate General Counsel with Agoda. He leads the legal service for special projects and incubation for Agoda, including fintech, leads the in-country and payment lawyers of the legal team, covering all legal, regulatory and compliance area’s whilst focusing primarily on corporate, tax, ecommerce, optimisation as well as commercial legal matters.

Prior joining Agoda in Thailand, he was with AVG Technologies. At AVG, he expanded his role from the General Counsel & Corporate Secretary to Chief of Staff and finally VP Operations. Guiding AVG to its IPO on the NYSE in 2012 was one of his major milestone at AVG Technologies.  

Peangpanor Boonklum

Senior Executive Vice President, Office of General Counsel

PTT Public Company Limited

Peangpanor Boonklum (PB) is a Senior Executive Vice President/ Group General Counsel, Office of General Counsel at the state-owned energy company, PTT Plc. She manages her own team of 50 lawyers at the company and oversees another 70 at whole group of companies. Her role includes advising the chief executives on strategic growth and acquisitions as well as reputation management i.e. as a gatekeeper. She is a special lecturer for MBA Program at Sasin Business School and a regular speaker on corporate governance matters. She seats in the company’s Management Committee. She also serves as a director at GPSC Plc., a power flagship, and at PTT Oil & Retail Marketing Plc., an oil and retail marketing flagship, in PTT Group.

She has been recognized by reputable legal publishers, including 2018 FT Global and the Legal 500 GC Powerlist Southeast Asia.

Prior to her current position, she was Executive Partner/ Senior Counsel at Weerawong, Chinnavat & Partners Ltd. (Formerly, White & Case (Thailand) Ltd.). Her areas of expertise were capital markets and M&A.

She obtained her Bachelor’s degree in Law and Master’s degree in Business Law from Chulalongkorn University, Thailand, and Master’s degree from Columbia University School of Law, United States.

Rijuta Misra

Head of Legal and Corporate Affairs

aCommerce

Rijuta is the Head of Legal and Corporate Affairs at aCommerce Group. She advises and represents aCommerce in the areas corporate funding and restructuring, commercial risk management, employment matters, intellectual property, consumer protection and competition issues, risk and compliance, dispute resolutions, etc. She has over a decade of experience in various legal domains advising multiple companies in varied sectors across South East Asia and Europe. She is a startup enthusiast and understands the nuances of modern disruptive businesses which helps her bring more on the table than her core legal knowledge.

In addition to her extensive experience in Corporate and Commercial laws as a General Legal Counsel, Rijuta also carries an in-depth knowledge of financial technology laws as well as legal process and procedures around regulators and banking authorities. Committing to conserving her client's resources, she focuses on preventing claims from arising, where possible and resolving the coverage disputes that do arise, effectively and efficiently. 

She is a merit holder in the Law of Jurisprudence who carries a background in litigation work and has been volunteering in pro bono work.

Jariya Jirachokpaisal

Senior Legal Counsel

Fujitsu

Jariyais Senior Legal Counsel of Fujitsu (Thailand) Co., Ltd, leading Japanese information and communication technology (ICT) company.  She joined Fujitsu in June 2004 with first assignment to set up legal unit and give advice to business divisions on commercial contracts, including visa and work permit. After business expansion, her role has further enhanced to lead and manage operation of Legal Dept. She has been working closely with regional legal team in Singapore and Japan in part of legal policies, risk management on business projects, corporate and legal matters, and also work with regional compliance team for compliance policy, antitrust and competition, IPR development and training for employees.

Prior to join Fujitsu, she had worked as law lecturer at private university. She taught Contract Law, Sales and Hire Purchase Law, English for Lawyer, including did some research on business topic. 

She graduated Bachelor of Laws from Thammasat University Bangkok, Master of Laws from Indiana University School of Law, Bloomington, USA.