KEY QUALIFICATIONS

Namita is a Senior Associate at Chandler MHM Limited. She specialises in Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT), Real Estate and Mergers and Acquisitions.  

Namita has been involved in in establishment, including capital increase, of several of major Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) and property funds for public offering (PFPOs) a structure similar to Real Estate Investment Trusts and the conversion of PFPO to REIT in Thailand, which include shopping malls, factories, office buildings, residential buildings and hotels. Her experience also includes advising client on a number of mergers and acquisitions both domestic and cross-border transactions. Recently, she has been actively engaged in real estate investment transaction in Thailand.

RELEVANT CLIENT EXPERIENCE

Some Representative Transactions:

• Bangkok Airways Public Company Limited in setting up a Real Estate Investment Trust, namely “BAREIT” and a REIT Manager to manage the REIT in Thailand. BAREIT was the first REIT which invested in airport properties in Thailand and in 2022 was one of the five largest REIT IPOs in Thailand.
• Internet Thailand PCL on the setting up of INETREIT, which is the first real estate investment trust to invest in a data center in Thailand and the first capital increase.
• Mitsubishi Estate Co., Ltd. in the acquisition of shares in Central Village Company Limited from Central Pattana Plc. (“CPN”). The target is a subsidiary of CPN which operates the first luxury outlet mall in Thailand.
• Tokyu Land Asia Pte. Ltd. in connection with various joint venture projects for investment in mixed-use project, hotels and warehouses development.
• Nomura Real Estate (Thailand) Co., Ltd. in connection with various joint venture projects for investment in housing and condominium development.
• Food Factor Company Limited on the acquisition of the majority of shares in a food chain company which through its own stores and franchise agreements operates more than 100 outlets in aggregate, primarily in Thailand.
• WHA INDUSTRIAL LEASEHOLD REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT TRUST in respect to its various capital increase by acquisition of factories and warehouses from WHA group.
• Bhiraj REIT Management Company Limited as the REIT Manager of Bhiraj Office Leasehold Real Estate Investment Trust (“BOFFICE”), in respect to its capital increase, and represented Kasikornbank Public Company Limited (KBank) as the lender to BOFFICE. The purpose of the capital increase and fund raising is to invest in new assets. This is the first capital increase of BOFFICE.
• GLAND Office Leasehold Real Estate Investment Trust (GLANDRT) on the divestment of all its assets to the CPN Retail Growth Leasehold Real Estate Investment Trust. CPN is one of Thailand's largest retail property development and investment companies. It is a business unit under its parent, the Central Group. This was the first divestment transaction between a REIT and another REIT. Post divestment, GLANDRT will be the first REIT in Thailand to be dissolved.

EDUCATION

• Peking University (LL.M. in Chinese Civil and Commercial Law, Chinese Government Scholarship, 2016)
• Chulalongkorn University (LL.B. with 1^st Class Honors, 2011)

QUALIFICATION

• Thai Barrister at Law, 2011
• Thai lawyer license, 2012

MEMBERSHIP

• Ordinary member of Thai Bar Association
• Member of the Lawyers Council of Thailand

OTHER EXPERIENCE/PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

• “Conversion of PFPOs into REITs” (The Stock Exchange of Thailand Seminar, 2023, speaker)