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Corporate & Business Advisory

Licensing & Permits

Identifying the licences a business actually needs, obtaining them, and keeping them current — before an inspection or a bank asks to see them.

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Who this is for

  • New businesses that cannot lawfully open without a permit
  • Foreign-owned companies needing a Foreign Business Licence
  • Restaurants, hotels, clinics and other regulated operations
  • Companies whose permits are expiring or no longer match the business

What we handle

Scope of work

Identifying every licence, permit and registration the activity requires

Foreign Business Licence applications, and BOI or treaty alternatives

Sector permits — food, alcohol, hotel, health, education, transport

Local authority permits — signage, building use, operating hours

Renewals, amendments and changes of licensed premises or scope

Responding when an application is refused or a permit is suspended

How it works

How we run the matter

  1. Map the actual operation and the authorities it engages
  2. List the licences required, held, and missing
  3. Prepare each application to be complete on first submission
  4. File and follow up with the authority
  5. Respond to queries, inspections or conditions imposed
  6. Hand over the renewal calendar with lead times

Documents to prepare

  • Company affidavit, articles and shareholder list
  • A description of what the business actually does
  • Premises documents — lease, title, building permit
  • Licences currently held and their expiry dates
  • Qualifications of any licensed professional the permit requires

Common questions

From what the business does day to day, not from its registered objectives — those are usually drafted broadly and prove nothing. We work through the actual operation: what is sold, where, to whom, with what equipment and premises, and which authorities that engages.
Usually not, and the penalties for operating without one range from fines to closure and, in some sectors, personal liability for the responsible director. Where an interim arrangement is genuinely available we will say so; where it is not, opening early is a risk priced in someone else’s favour.
Many Thai licences are personal to the holder or tied to specific premises and do not transfer with a sale — a fact that surfaces painfully after completion. This is one of the first things we check in any acquisition, because a business whose licence cannot move is a different purchase from the one being advertised.
It varies by authority far more than by complexity, and an incomplete first filing usually costs more time than the entire review would have. We prepare the file to be complete on submission, and tell you the realistic range for that specific licence before you commit to an opening date. FEE_STRUCTURE
The business is operating without it from that day, whatever the reason — and renewal after expiry is often treated as a fresh application rather than a renewal, which is slower and sometimes stricter. We put every expiry date into a renewal calendar with lead time built in, because this failure is entirely preventable.

Lawyers for this matter

Generation 1 Chanin Taongern

Founding Partner

Chanin Taongern

40+ years of courtroom and advisory experience

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Generation 2 Pongsanan Taongern

Partner

Pongsanan Taongern

Modern legal practice, business advisory and international client support

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Foreign Business Licence, BOI promotion or treaty right — which route fits?

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