Partner
Pongsanan Taongern
Modern legal practice, business advisory and international client support
Pongsanan Taongern leads the firm's corporate, employment and cross-border family practice, working principally with foreign-owned businesses and international families in Thailand.
His work is preventive as much as contentious: employment documents that hold up, contracts written to be enforced, and legitimation and custody matters handled with an understanding of how they look from both sides of a border.
He runs the firm's employment law workshops for business owners and HR teams. As a Notarial Services Attorney, he also certifies signatures and documents for use abroad.
- More than 10 years of experience in law-related work
- Attorney-at-Law Licence No. 811/2569 (lifetime), Lawyers Council of Thailand, issued 27 February 2026
- Notarial Services Attorney, registered with the Lawyers Council of Thailand
- LL.B., Bangkok University
- LL.M. (International Programme), Thammasat University — Business Law (in progress)
- Corporate advisory
- Employment law
- Cross-border family law
- International client services
- Legal workshops
- Employment document and workplace rules programmes for SMEs
- Child legitimation and custody for foreign fathers
- Company incorporation and foreign ownership structuring
- Commercial contract drafting and negotiation, Thai and English
- HR compliance audits and in-house training
- Thai (native)
- English (professional working proficiency)
- Speaker — Employment Law & HR Management Workshop for business owners and HR teams, Pearl Hotel Phuket, 28 July 2026
- Runs the firm’s in-house employment law workshops for companies and HR teams
Credentials
Licence on record with the Lawyers Council of Thailand
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Published articles
Can a foreign father obtain custody in Thailand?
Being named on the birth certificate is not the same as being the legal father. What an unmarried foreign father has to establish first, and what follows.
How to legally terminate an employee in Thailand
Most dismissal cases are decided by documents created months before the dismissal. What has to exist on file, and in what order.
What rights does an unmarried father have?
A short answer to a question we are asked more than any other — and the three routes to changing the answer.
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