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Athistha (Nop) Chitranukroh

Partner and Director, Corporate and Commercial

Biography

Nop Chitranukroh is a partner and director of Tilleke & Gibbins’ corporate and commercial group. She is one of the leaders of the firm’s technology and insurance teams and regularly advises clients across industries on a wide range of regulatory compliance matters relating to cybersecurity and data privacy, fintech, insurance, insurtech, and payments. She also represents multinational and local financial services, payments, and technology industry clients on a range of strategic matters, including market entry, M&As, and ongoing compliance across Southeast Asia.

Prior to joining Tilleke & Gibbins, Nop served as Thailand general counsel of an American multinational corporation, listed on the New York Stock Exchange, where she oversaw all operations within the legal department in Thailand. Nop was previously Asia-Pacific regional counsel for the same multinational finance and insurance corporation, based in Singapore. She has also served as a legal counsel at an industry-leading Irish-American financial services and software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider of payment processing software and related application programming interfaces (APIs) for e-commerce websites and mobile applications.

Widely recognized as a top practitioner in insurance and TMT legal practice in Southeast Asia, Nop is ranked as a leading lawyer in technology by Chambers Asia-Pacific, a Next Generation Partner in TMT by The Legal 500, a leader for data in Who’s Who Legal Southeast Asia 2022-2024. Most recently, Nop has been named to the Asia Super 50 TMT Lawyers 2023 and 2024 list by Asian Legal Business from Thomson Reuters. Nop has been appointed as the Knowledge Network Chair from IAPP for Thailand for 2024-2026. In 2023, Nop was named one of Asia Super 50 TMT Lawyers by Thomson Reuters’ Asian Legal Business.

Nop is a Certified Information Privacy Professional/Asia (CIPP/A) with the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) and serves as an advisory board member of Insurtech Asia. She has acted as a legal advisor for the Thailand Insurance Association for more than a decade.

Experience

  • Advising a multinational American corporation listed on the S&P 500 on a number of M&A transactions, including its corporate restructuring in Thailand, conversion into a public company, transfer of an entire business to one of its Thai entity and a joint venture arrangement.
  • Advising one of the world’s largest international insurance broker groups on its M&A and corporate restructuring in Thailand, including a joint venture arrangement with Thai investors and investment structuring in the Indochina region.
  • Advising one of the world’s largest search engine companies on setting up operations in Thailand, including drafting, negotiating, and reviewing an extensive range of business and technology transactional arrangements. This includes setting up the client’s insurtech and fintech business partnership with a local business operator.
  • Assisted a British insurance broker in an insurtech matter, involving setting up its online insurance products marketplace in Thailand and advising on business arrangement structures with all of the top ten leading motor insurers in the Thai market.
  • Advising a global technology company, based in Asia, on regulatory matters related to beacon devices, over-the-top (OTT) businesses, and data privacy regulatory requirements.
  • Advising a global social media/technology company, based in Korea and Japan, on one of its largest joint venture arrangements with one of the largest local mobile carriers and transportation operators for its e-payment system and fintech-related business in Thailand.
  • Advised one of the largest property and casualty insurers on a facultative reinsurance placement for a USD 870 million hydroelectric energy project involving parties from Thailand and Laos.
  • Providing advice to a leading American broadband and telecommunications company on the launch of its fintech business in Thailand, and on data privacy regulatory matters.
ABOUT Athistha (Nop)

Practices

Corporate/M&A

Location

Languages

    Thai

    English

Education

    LLM, University of Wisconsin

    LLM, Georgetown University

    LLB, Chulalongkorn University

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