Legal Guides
Step-by-step guides to Thai legal procedures
Longer walk-throughs of the procedures our clients most often go through, grouped by practice area.
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Corporate & Business Advisory
Business Structuring
Choosing the entity, the shareholding and the licensing route that fit your plan — decided before anything is filed, because the structure is expensive to change afterwards.
Read moreCorporate Governance
Directors, shareholders, and the meetings, resolutions and records the law requires — kept in order so a filing, an audit or a sale never stalls on missing paperwork.
Read moreJoint Ventures
Partner arrangements, contribution and control, deadlock and exit — agreed while everyone is still optimistic, because that is the only time these terms can be negotiated calmly.
Read moreMergers & Acquisitions
Share and asset transactions, due diligence and completion documents — structured so what you pay for is what you actually receive.
Read moreRegulatory Compliance
A periodic review of where the business is exposed — licences, employment, data, tax filings and sector rules — with a fix list ordered by risk, not by alphabet.
Read moreLicensing & 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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Employment Law & HR Compliance
Employment Law
End-to-end employment advice for Thai employers, from the first hire through to the difficult exit.
Read moreEmployment Contracts
Contracts that survive a Labour Court reading — clear on role, pay, confidentiality and how the relationship ends.
Read moreHR Policies & Work Rules
The document most employers only read once they need it — drafted so that discipline and dismissal decisions are actually supportable.
Read moreEmployee Discipline & Termination
Ending employment in a way that is lawful, documented, and defensible if it is later challenged.
Read moreSeverance & Final Payments
Calculating what is owed on exit — severance, notice, accrued leave and any special-case entitlements.
Read moreLabour Disputes
Representation before labour inspectors and the Labour Court, and negotiated settlements where those serve the client better.
Read moreEmployment & HR Compliance
An audit of what HR is actually doing, measured against what the law requires — with a fix list, not a lecture.
Read moreHR Legal Training
In-house sessions for the managers who write warning letters and run termination meetings — the people whose decisions end up in court.
Read moreWorkplace Investigations
Running a disciplinary or grievance investigation so its findings hold up later — before HR, at the Labour Court, or in front of the person you dismissed.
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Family & Succession
Child Custody
Parental power decided on the child’s welfare — with realistic advice about what a Thai court is likely to order.
Read moreChild Support
Claiming, defending or varying maintenance — including where the paying parent lives outside Thailand.
Read moreChild Legitimation
For unmarried fathers: the step that turns a biological relationship into a legal one. Without it, most parental rights do not exist.
Read moreLegal Paternity
Establishing — or disputing — paternity where it is contested, and dealing with what follows either way.
Read moreVisitation Rights
Contact arrangements that survive contact with reality — schedules, travel, and what to do when they are ignored.
Read moreJurisdiction & Recognition of Foreign Orders
Where one parent is foreign, one is Thai, and the family exists across two legal systems at once.
Read moreMarriage & Divorce
Prenuptial agreements, divorce by consent or by court, and the division of property — handled so the settlement still holds years after the emotion has passed.
Read moreWills & Estate Planning
Thai-law wills, including for foreign nationals holding assets here — written so the people you intend to provide for can actually receive what you leave.
Read moreProbate & Estate Administration
Court appointment of an estate administrator, and the collection, settlement and distribution that follow — the step families discover is unavoidable when a bank or the Land Office says no.
Read moreCross-Border Family & Succession
Estates and families that exist in two legal systems at once — foreign wills, assets in more than one country, and heirs who have never set foot in Thailand.
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Litigation & Dispute Resolution
Civil Litigation
Contract, property, tort and damages claims from first demand letter through to enforcement.
Read moreCriminal Defence
Defence representation from police station to court — including for foreign nationals unfamiliar with Thai procedure.
Read moreCommercial Disputes
Business-to-business disputes handled with the commercial outcome in mind, not just the legal one.
Read moreDebt Recovery & Enforcement
Recovering what is owed — with an early, honest assessment of whether the debtor can actually pay.
Read moreMediation & Negotiation
Resolving matters without a judgment where that gets the client a better result, faster and for less.
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Contracts & Commercial Agreements
Contract Drafting
Agreements written for your transaction, in Thai, English or bilingual form — drafted around what happens when things go wrong, not only when they go right.
Read moreContract Review & Negotiation
Reading the draft in front of you, saying plainly what to change and why — then negotiating it with the other side, in your language and theirs.
Read moreCommercial & Corporate Agreements
Supply, distribution, agency, service and licensing arrangements on the commercial side — shareholder, founder, director and investment documents on the corporate side.
Read moreTerms & Conditions
Customer-facing terms, service conditions and website policies that hold up under Thai consumer law — not borrowed from another country’s internet.
Read moreBreach of Contract
Assessing a breach and the options — cure, renegotiate, terminate or claim — before positions harden and the file turns into litigation.
Read moreDemand Letters
Formal notices drafted to preserve your position, start the legal clock and open the door to settlement — the cheapest serious step in any dispute.
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Company Registration
Company Incorporation
The registration itself, done correctly — name reservation, memorandum, statutory filings and the tax registrations that follow, run as one managed process.
Read moreCompany Amendments
Registered changes to name, objectives, capital, address or articles — with the resolutions passed, minuted and filed so the record matches reality.
Read moreDirector & Shareholder Changes
Share transfers, appointments and resignations — documented, resolved and filed so that control of the company actually changes hands.
Read moreBranch & Representative Offices
The registration requirements and procedure for a foreign company operating in Thailand through a branch or a representative office, rather than a separate Thai subsidiary.
Read moreCompany Dissolution & Liquidation
Closing a company properly — the resolution, the liquidation, the tax clearance and the final registration that actually end its obligations.
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Immigration, Visa & Work Permit
Work Permit
Applications, renewals and changes of employer or position — with the sponsoring company’s conditions checked before the application is filed, not at the counter.
Read moreBusiness Visa (Non-B)
Non-immigrant B visas tied to a Thai company or investment — the initial visa, the one-year extension, and the company compliance that keeps it renewable.
Read moreRetirement Visa
Long-stay retirement status in Thailand — the first application, the annual extension, and the reporting routine in between, planned so the evidence is right before each filing.
Read moreMarriage & Family Visa
Applications based on a Thai spouse, a Thai child or a dependent family member — with the relationship and financial evidence prepared to the standard immigration actually applies.
Read moreVisa Extensions & Reporting
Extensions of stay, re-entry permits and 90-day reporting — the recurring immigration housekeeping that keeps a long stay lawful, run on a calendar instead of memory.
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Real Estate & Construction
Property Transactions
Sale and purchase from reservation to transfer at the Land Office — with the checks done before money moves, not after.
Read moreLease Agreements
Residential and commercial leases — drafted to be enforceable, registered where the term requires it, and exited without forfeiting more than the contract truly demands.
Read moreProperty Due Diligence
Title, encumbrances, permitted use and the seller — checked before the deposit is paid, because afterwards is too late.
Read moreConstruction Contracts
Scope, payment milestones, variations, delay and defect liability — agreed in writing before the first invoice, instead of argued about after the last one.
Read moreReal Estate Disputes
Deposits, failed transfers, boundary and possession claims — assessed on the documents first, settled where that serves you, litigated where it does not.
Read moreConstruction Disputes
Delay, defective work, unpaid milestones and terminated contracts — assessed on the documents and the site, then pursued through the route that actually pays.
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Notarial Services
Signature Certification
Witnessing and certifying a signature on a document you must sign in person — with the notarial certificate that accompanies it, in the form the receiving country expects.
Read moreCertified True Copies
Certified copies of identity, corporate and academic documents — so you can submit copies abroad and keep your originals where they belong.
Read moreAffidavits & Statutory Declarations
Sworn statements prepared for use by a court, authority or overseas body — drafted so they say precisely what you can stand behind, then sworn and certified.
Read moreDocument Authentication
Preparing documents for the further legalisation an embassy or ministry requires — the whole chain mapped before you start, so nothing is rejected at step three.
Read morePowers of Attorney
Authority to act on your behalf in Thailand while you are elsewhere — drafted narrowly enough to be safe and specifically enough to be accepted.
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