Panuwat C. is a Thailand-qualified lawyer with more than 15 years of law firm and in-house experience across corporate and M&A, foreign investment, strategic projects, commercial transactions and operational legal matters in Thailand.
The work focuses on matters that require legal structuring and execution to progress together: cross-border M&A and joint ventures, BOI and foreign investment structures, industrial and infrastructure projects, EPC and project contracts, real estate and regulatory implementation.
Experience includes leading transactions and projects from feasibility and structuring through due diligence, negotiation, definitive documentation, regulatory implementation, closing and post-closing execution, and advising multinational corporations, listed companies and foreign investors entering, operating and expanding in Thailand.
Areas of focus
- Corporate & M&A
- Joint Ventures & Strategic Investments
- Foreign Investment, BOI, FBA & FBL
- Industrial & Infrastructure Projects
- EPC / FIDIC / Project Contracts
- Real Estate, Land & Industrial Estates
- Commercial Contracts
- Regulatory & Project Execution
- Data Centers & Digital Infrastructure
Selected representative experience
Selected professional experience. Matter descriptions are anonymised.
- Advised on a large-scale hyperscale data center investment in Thailand, coordinating investment and corporate structuring, BOI, industrial estate strategy, telecom licensing, utilities and related regulatory workstreams.
- Led a billion-baht cross-border M&A transaction in advanced manufacturing, from legal feasibility and structuring through due diligence, negotiation, definitive documentation, closing and implementation.
- Led negotiation and execution of FIDIC-based EPC arrangements for a multi-billion-baht industrial factory development in Thailand, addressing risk allocation, variations, delay remedies, security and implementation.
- Advised on cross-border joint ventures and strategic investments in energy, battery, advanced manufacturing and technology businesses, covering shareholder governance, partner rights, investment structuring and regulatory implementation.
- Advised multinational investors on BOI, the Foreign Business Act, industrial estates, land acquisition, leases, utilities, licences and implementation for major industrial investments in Thailand.
- Advised on corporate restructurings, shareholder arrangements, hospitality, real estate and complex commercial transactions, covering transaction execution and ongoing operational legal risk.
Credentials
- Thailand-qualified lawyer
- Legal education: Thammasat University