Worawut Temphuwapat

Specialty or industry

Cross-border M&A, International joint venture, Capital project & infrastructure. 

Summary of expertise

Worawut is an experienced professional with a background in chemical engineering, offering over 16 years of technical and commercial expertise to the energy and infrastructure sectors. His core skills include cross-border deal origination, successfully guiding multinational companies to establish international joint-venture investments with local conglomerates.

With a deep understanding of cross-cultural dynamics, he excels in leadership roles that bridge the gap between international markets and clients. Proficient in English, Japanese and his native Thai, he possesses a strong ability to build trust with clients and navigate them into unfamiliar markets, fostering strong and successful client relationships.

Selected Experience. 

• Deal origination, structuring, partnership selection, bid strategy, negotiation on concession agreement, shareholder agreement, JV establishment among a Japanese trading firm, a Japanese gas utility company, a local power developer and a local real estate developer for district cooling and power distribution for one of the smart cities in the centre of Bangkok
• Divestment of a mega solar business in Thailand for a leading Japanese energy company
• Buy-side financial advisory for a Japanese trading firm for its investment in a submarine and terrestrial optical fibre network in Southeast Asia
• Buy-side financial advisory for a Japanese trading firm for its investment in a run-off-water hydropower business in Laos
• Buy-side financial advisory for a Japanese trading firm for its investment in a hydrogen and industrial gas business in Southeast Asia
• EPC bid evaluation and negotiation for a joint venture among a Japanese gas utility company, a Japanese trading firm and a local conglomerate for Japanese ECA project finance-based onshore LNG regasification service in west Java
• Bidding and negotiation support for a Japanese engineering firm for its services for site selection, FEED, EPC bid evaluation and project management for LNG terminal development in eastern Thailand
• Engineering design and technical evaluation for a Japanese EPC contractor, including preparing specification, requisition, vendor bid evaluation, selection for desalination, water and wastewater treatment, nitrogen, cooling tower and other utilities for an LNG liquefaction facility in Papua New Guinea
• Preliminary basic engineering design (Pre-FEED) and cost estimation for a Japanese EPC contractor for a floating LNG plant and its inland logistic supply base in Indonesia.
• Front-end Engineering Desing (FEED) and cost estimation for a Japanese EPC contractor for an LPG extraction plant in Algeria
• EPC cost estimation for a Japanese contractor for oil and gas plants in Middle East