Practices
Banking and Finance
Capital Markets
Corporate/M&A

Location
Thailand

Languages
Thai
English

Education
LLB, Thammasat University
Sippakorn Bunraksa
+66 2056 5590

Biography

Sippakorn is an associate in Tilleke & Gibbins’ corporate and commercial department in Bangkok, where he primarily focuses on mergers and acquisitions, securities offerings, financial technology, and regulatory compliance. His deep commercial and legal insights enable him to accurately address the business needs of his clients.

Sippakorn’s practice ranges from advising clients on capital markets transactions to providing specific legal advice in relation to securities, derivatives, and banking laws. Clients benefit from his invaluable legal knowledge on cross-border investments and securities offerings, offshore investments, and collaboration schemes or arrangements between offshore and onshore entities. He also possesses prior experience in the energy and infrastructure sectors, particularly in respect of cross-border trade of carbon credits and restructuring of oil and gas companies.

Prior to joining Tilleke & Gibbins, Sippakorn worked at international law firms and was an in-house counsel at a leading entertainment and metaverse company in Thailand. He holds an LLB from Thammasat University.


Experience
  • Advised two leading logistics companies in Thailand on a THB 19 billion merger transaction, with the transaction involving an offering of shares through a private placement scheme in a material and connected transaction that enabled the merged company to become the largest integrated logistics company and provider of supply chain solutions in ASEAN.
  • Advised a leading entertainment and metaverse company on the establishment of a joint venture to provide cybersecurity and related services, including advising on business arrangement structures and operations and preparing written documentation and internal processes and guidelines after completion.
  • Represented and advised local and foreign financial institutions and securities companies on the banking regulatory environment and other legal frameworks in Thailand related to the offering and marketing of financial and capital markets products.
  • Advised on the relevant laws in Thailand for cross-border transactions, offshore investments, and collaboration schemes between offshore entities and local intermediaries, as well as preparing comprehensive cross-border manuals for foreign financial institutions.
  • Analyzed local and international laws on cross-border trade of carbon credits and assisted in the drafting of a master trading agreement to enable domestic and cross-border transfers of emissions allowances.