Practice areas

M&A; corporate & commercial transactions; foreign direct investment; tax labour & employment

Introduction

Warot Wanakankowit is a founding partner at Warot Advisory Services and Wingman Business Consultants. He has substantial experience with taxation, corporate and commercial transactions, foreign direct investment and foreign business law, labour and employment and merger and acquisition transactions. Warot has also taken director roles in various companies in order to help set up operations and manage those companies.

Warot Advisory Services has worked with several corporations for commercial transactions and joint venture matters and assisted multinational companies in setting up business in Thailand either by establishing wholly owned subsidiaries or partnering with Thai companies.

On the other hand, Wingman Business Consultants is one of the best-known law firms in the startup scene in Thailand. It has actively helped and represented both venture capitals and startups in Thailand for a few years.

Warot’s recent cases include representation of the most well-known company in providing safety and security-related equipment and service in Thailand in negotiating the share purchase agreement with a Japanese company and representation of an investment arm of a listed company in conducting legal due diligence and negotiating the shareholders agreement with portfolio companies.

Warot has been invited to be a speaker in many startup events such as Techsauce Global Summit and Thailand Startup Week.

Prior to founding his own firm, Warot worked at Weerawong, Chinnavat & Peangpanor, one of leading law firms in Thailand. Before that, he worked at KPMG Phoomchai Tax, as well as with PricewaterhouseCoopers Legal and Tax Consultants in Thailand. Warot obtained an LLB degree from Thammasat University, and an LLM degree from King’s College University, in the UK.

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