Chandler MHM

Pranat Laohapairoj

Partner

Pranat Laohapairoj

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SPECIAL RECOGNITION

  • Chambers and Partners Asia Pacific 2024 – Up and Coming - Competition / Antitrust
  • ALB Asia’s Top 40 Lawyers Under the Age of 40 for 2022

KEY QUALIFICATIONS

Pranat is a Partner at Chandler MHM Ltd. (CMHM) and has been with the firm since 2012. He has worked with Thai and international clients on merger and acquisition, anti-trust, corporate, anti-corruption, compliance, and data protection, providing advice and services involving due diligence (for merger and acquisition, anti-trust, and data protection), deal structuring, negotiation, contract drafting, deal execution, in-house training and public seminar (for anti-bribery, anti-trust, and data protection), internal misconduct investigation, and anti-trust defense. He regularly works on both domestic Thai deals as well as on cross-border investments, and his experience spans multiple sectors, including oil and gas, mining and metal, automotive and automotive parts and support, manufacturing, wholesale and retail, consumer products, chemical, electronics, real estate and shared space, gaming and information technology, import and export, leasing, land and marine transport, hotel management, heavy machinery and machinery rental, investment and marketing consultancy, recruitment, pharmaceutical and supplements, and food and beverage industries. He is admitted to the Bar of the State of New York.

RELEVANT CLIENT EXPERIENCE

Some Representative Transactions:

  • Provided advice to: numerous companies on anti-trust breaches and regimes, covering merger regulations, merger filing, defense against investigation on merger filing breach, abuse of position, and general commercial misconduct, cross-border anti-competitive collaboration, abuse of position and power, domestic trade collusion, and specific exemptions, with work including conducting company-wide anti-trust investigation, provision of executive and staff presentation, reporting, provision of training, completion of merger filing, negotiation with officers for exemptions, and defense of anti-trust breaches.
  • Hitachi Automotive Systems, Keihin Corporation, Showa Corporation, and Nissin Kogyo in their absorption-based pre-merger filing with the Trade Competition Commission of Thailand to form a new global part supplier, including determination of merger filing necessity for multiple transactional steps and multiple filings for pre-merger approval and post-merger notification.
  • AB Volvo in their pre-merger filing with the Trade Competition Commission of Thailand for the sale of UD Trucks to a major truck manufacturer.
  • One of the largest global manufacturers of construction chemicals and materials in their pre-merger filing with the Trade Competition Commission of Thailand for the sale to another global manufacturer.
  • Luckytex (Thai) Public Company Limited and Thai Toray Textile Mills Public Company Limited in their amalgamation-based post-merger filing with the Trade Competition Commission of Thailand to form Toray Textile (Thailand) Public Company Limited.
  • Numerous other post-merger filings such as for Hitachi Automotive Systems, Calbee, Toppan, Dialog, and MinebeaMitsumi.
  • Numerous matters of merger requirement review, such as for Akastor ASA and Baker Hughes, Petronas, Trafigura, Thanachart Bank, Okachimachi, etc.
  • A global FMCG company on their defense against investigation by the Trade Competition Commission of Thailand concerning misconduct against distributors.
  • A subsidiary of a Thai listed company on their defense against investigation by the Trade Competition Commission of Thailand concerning merger filing obligation.
  • A global car manufacturer on their defense against investigation by the Trade Competition Commission of Thailand concerning misconduct against dealers.
  • Nissan Motors, UD Trucks, a global tool manufacturer, a global FMCG company, a global aviation servicing company, among others, on their anti-trust internal review, including, as applicable, documentary studies and staff interviews for internal mechanisms and conducts, presentation, training, creation of due diligence report, and revision of commercial documents.
  • A global car manufacturing alliance on its anti-trust review, overseeing issues surrounding exchange of information and personnel, different types of bundling and joint purchase, pricing arrangement, and other cartel-related issues, including staff and executive interviews, executive presentation, staff training, and creation of reports.
  • Provided numerous other companies and public organizations with training on anti-trust law or mock dawn raid, including GlaxoSmithKline, DTAC, AGC, Vinythai, Volvo, and In-House Congress.
  • Unicharm Corporation, a listed Japanese consumer goods conglomerate, on its acquisition of DSG International, a market leader in Southeast Asia for hygiene products, including due diligence and work on merger control as both are market leaders in Thailand.
  • Mitsubishi Corporation on its multiple-stage cross-border acquisition, restructuring, and joint venture scheme involving a Thai group and a global manufacturer for a large synthetic chemical manufacturing operation, comprised of complex dealings with land restructuring, corporate and shareholding restructuring, multiple agreements, labor aspects, dispute resolution, and management of a myriad of relationships between multiple parties.
  • PCC Rokita SA, a listed Polish chemical manufacturer, on a multiple-stage cross-border acquisition and joint venture scheme with IRPC Pcl. for a large petroleum-based product manufacturing operation in Rayong Province, including commercial and labor resolutions.
  • Frutarom/IFF Group, a listed American-Israeli food additive and ingredient conglomerate, on its multiple-stage cross-border acquisition and joint venture scheme with Thai operators for food manufacturing and distribution businesses of Maharaj and Mighty Group, including everything from upstream work such as due diligence, contract drafting, and negotiation, to downstream work such as execution and contract adjustment.
  • Love Leasing Group, a consumer appliance retailer for its sale to Sabuy Group, a Thai listed company.
  • A Thai listed company on its internal misconduct audit concerning fraud, bid interference, and kickback, including review of corporate, commercial, HR, and financial documents and interviews of staffs and external parties, and executive presentation and creation of a final report.
  • A well-known international organization on internal investigation of sexual misconduct, inappropriate behaviors, and breach of Code of Conducts by certain employees, involving interviews, document review, and resolution of the issues.
  • ExxonMobil, Generali, Nissan Motors, Sanofi-Aventis, Vinythai, Nikon, Bouygues, CK Power, Ch. Karnchang, Colgate and Hill’s, Melia Hotels, NTT, BRED IT, Mizuho, Hokkoku, GlaxoSmithKline, Exterran, among others, on different parts of data protection internal review and compliance work, including, as applicable, documentary studies, staff interviews for internal mechanisms and conducts, presentation, training, creation of a due diligence report, and creation or revision of data-related documents.
  • Provided numerous other companies and public organizations with training on data protection law, including GlaxoSmithKline, Sumitomo Chemical, Win Performance, joint seminar with Slaughter & May, and joint seminar by Spanish-Thai Chamber of Commerce, Belu-Thai Chamber of Commerce, British Chamber of Commerce, and the Netherlands Chamber of Commerce.
  • Provided in-house training to numerous companies on anti-bribery and compliance regulations and practices, involving customized presentations, open-floor discussions, and quizzes.

EDUCATION

  • Syracuse University College of Law (J.D., 2012)
  • Macalester College (United States) (B.A. with Honors, 2008)

CERTIFICATE

  • TRACE Certification

QUALIFICATION

  • Admitted in New York State, 2012

MEMBERSHIP

  • Member of New York State Bar Association
  • Member of American Bar Association

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