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Tel: +66 2 636 0662
Email: kowit.somwaiya@lawplusltd.com

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Corporate & commercial; IP; litigation; M&A; technology, media & telecommunications

Introduction

Kowit Somwaiya is the founder and managing partner of LawPlus and LawPlus Myanmar, a full-service firm specialised in banking and finance; corporate and commercial; M&A; IP; securities; IT; telecommunications, media and technology; joint venture; employment; foreign direct investment; real property; debt restructuring; insolvency; litigation and alternative dispute resolution.

Kowit holds a BA (education) from Ubon Ratchathani Rajbhat University, an LLB from Thammasat University, an LLM from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a certificate of instruction for lawyers from Harvard Law School.

Kowit worked with Domnern Somgiat & Boonma for seven and a half years, with Chandler & Thong-ek Law Offices for four and a half years, and four years as a partner at George & Kowit. Before founding LawPlus in 2003, he was the managing partner of the Bangkok office of Herbert Smith Freehills. He has more than 30 years of experience in IP, banking and finance, corporate and M&A, foreign direct investment, IT, telecoms, litigation and alternative dispute resolution. He has been recommended for corporate and M&A, and IP by Legal 500 Asia-Pacific in 2020 and 2021. The Asia IP’s Thailand IP Experts 2021 named him as one of the top 50 IP experts of Thailand. Kowit has been ranked a leading patent professional in Thailand by the IAM Patent 1000 in 2020 and 2021. His expertise has been recognised by several top global and local clients, who decided to have him and the LawPlus team represent them since the firm incorporation in 2003. Several professional associations and legal publications have appointed and elected him as a leader for the past 15 years.

Kowit is a member of the Lawyers Council of Thailand, the Thai Bar Association, the Intellectual Property Association of Thailand (as director in 2009-2016 and vice president in 2017-2019), the ASEAN Intellectual Property Association, the Asian Patent Attorneys Association (co-chair of the Emerging IP Rights Committee in 2013-2015 and member of the Anti-Counterfeiting Committee in 2016-2021). He was a member of the INTA Board of Directors (2018-2020). Currently, Kowit is serving as a member of the INTA Digital Transformation Advisory Board (2020-2021).

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