Legal services
Overview
Our legal business solutions team brings legal expertise, advanced tech and capability—at scale—to help you manage challenging business issues with agility. From predicting the impact of regulatory change to future-proofing your strategy.
Key Legal services
- 1. BOI services
- 2. Corporate and commercial
- 3. Capital market and corporate secretarial services
- 4. Mergers and acquisitions
- 5. Employment
- 6. Data privacy
- 7. Property and intellectual property
1. BOI services
BOI service is designed to assist companies with the formalities and practical considerations of maximising the benefits available.
We understand that strategic planning for start-up, expansion or relocation can be time consuming and complex. Maximising BOI benefits requires much more than submitting raw data through the application form. It’s important that the practical aspects and long-term implications are addressed in addition to the initial considerations.
To help with this, we have a network of specialists from all lines of service who can advise on a wide range of factors which can impact your initial structuring decisions and implementation.
Our BOI-related services include:
- Structures for obtaining BOI benefits
- Preparing/reviewing BOI applications
- Preparing/reviewing feasibility studies
- Discussing with BOI officers
- Amending BOI projects
- Applying for project relocation/revision
To make the process easier, we divide services into initial and longer-term considerations. For each stage we provide you with the relevant service you need. Our one-stop service includes:
Tax compliance and planning to maximise incentives include:
- Cost of capital, capacity and scrap planning
- Segregation of future projects
- Segregation of BOI and Non-BOI activities
- Transfer pricing during and after BOI promotion
Accounting analysis and financial modelling
- Choice of depreciation methods
- Leasing alternatives
- Inventory valuation methods
- Debt vs. equity evaluation from a tax and financing perspective
- Types of forward contracts used to cover FX risks
Legal compliance and planning to
- Determine the best strategy for seeking investment promotion
- Negotiate with officials to find the optimum solution
- Ensure that various aspects of environmental, labour, and technology requirements of the BOI are satisfied
- Provide post-implementation support to ensure conditions imposed by the BOI are fulfilled for every type of incentives received, and
- Provide BOI compliance audit support to identify potential tax risk and safeguard against withdrawal or cancellation of all BOI privileges.
2. Corporate and commercial
We provide a wide range of corporate services to fit with your legal concerns, for example:
- Advice on legal issues, interpretation and application of laws and regulations with practical and constructive solutions
- Corporate and foreign business registration
- Commercial contract drafting/reviewing
- Reorganisation, corporate restructuring and business transfer
- Applying for licences and permits as required under applicable Thai laws
3. Capital market and corporate secretarial services
We provide a comprehensive range of securities and corporate secretarial services to private companies and both listed and non-listed public companies. Our services include legal advice and assistance in:
- Conducting legal due diligence to identify any potential legal risk
- Helping a private company go public by preparing a prospectus and requesting the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to approve an initial public offering (IPO)
- Listing shares on the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET), including spinning-off a listed company’s subsidiary for listing on the SET
- Corporate laws, SEC and SET regulations and corporate legal compliance.
4. Mergers and acquisitions
We have acted in high-profile acquisition, disposal and restructuring transactions, representing purchasers, vendors, and shareholders. Our services include:
- Preparation of the required legal transaction documentation
- Conducting legal due diligence on the target
- Drafting share and/or asset sale and purchase contracts to support the transaction
- Negotiating with counterparties to serve the business needs
- Helping to ensuring legal compliance to smooth business integration and operation after the M&A process.
5. Employment
We assist you in the preparation, review, and negotiation of employment agreements, service agreements, and work rules, to help ensure compliance with the labour law. We also provide advice and assist you with the legal steps required before terminating an employee, to minimise the risk of legal action instigated by the Labour Inspection Officer or before the Court.
Acting as a lawyer, we also represent you if you’re involved in labour disputes in the Labour Court, and we assist you by acting as a labour relations advisor during negotiations about working conditions.
Do you need someone to provide whistleblowing services? We can represent you and act as one of the channels for receiving and filtering complaints. We then report them to the top management level for further action.
6. Data privacy
We provide many kinds of legal services under the Personal Data Protection Act BE 2562 (2019) (PDPA), such as conducting potential legal risk assessments using the concept of gap analysis. This involves a legal review of your provided information and documents along with interviews with selected stakeholders of each related division. Once completed, we give recommendations or advice.
To fill gaps and prevent penalties, we prepare a legally required data inventory and help you understand data workflow mapping. After the implementation, we then conduct a PDPA compliance review to revisit and check whether your current practices are still in line with the PDPA and subordinate legislation.
We draft and develop legally required document templates, such as a privacy policy and notices, consent letters, and breach notification forms. This also includes reviewing the data processing agreement, drafting agreements related to acts or implementation with respect to personal data, and making appropriate revisions. We localise the organisation’s global privacy policy and documentation and ensure that all local requirements are reflected in them.
In addition, we use the results of gap analysis assessments to create a framework to help your employees comply with the PDPA. This includes designing PDPA courses to build your employees’ understanding of the legal requirements and potential risks of personal data leakage and incidents.
7. Property and intellectual property
We represent vendors and purchasers in relation to the sale and purchase of land, commercial buildings, and condominiums. We can assist you in the preparation of leasing arrangements, management agreements, and service agreements. In the commercial sector, we can help you apply for approval to conduct business and to use land from the Industrial Estate Authority of Thailand. We also consider any privileges available under the law, so you can optimise each transaction.
We provide advice and assistance to intellectual property owners in all legal aspects. This includes registration of trademarks or service marks, as well as how to use and safeguard intellectual property when it is licensed, franchised, or under a distributorship arrangement.
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