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Asia Newsletter (March 2020)

This newsletter is the first one in a series of newsletters written jointly by lawyers in SCL Nishimura (Bangkok) and Nishimura & Asahi (Tokyo) that will cover various topics in finance related matters in Thailand. This newsletter describes the overview of the legal system and financial laws and regulations in Thailand.

Contents

I. Legal system of Thailand (Yasunari SugiyamaNobuhiko HaradaTakuya Wada、Nuttaros Tangprasitti、Radklao Namkunya)
II. Overview of financial laws in Thailand (Nobuhiko HaradaNobuhiko HaradaTakuya Wada、Nuttaros Tangprasitti、Radklao Namkunya)

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Authors

杉山 泰成

Yasunari Sugiyama is a partner in the firm's Asset Finance Group and Agri-Food Practice Group. In the finance area, his major and unique areas include financing of movables (lease, installment purchase and secured loan), supports for overseas expansion by financial institutions, acquisition finance and domestic and cross-border real estate transactions. In particular, he has extensive experience in proposing and implementing business plans and schemes available for each target jurisdiction taking into consideration the specific civil and commercial laws and financial regulations regarding the movables and real estates in Asian, European and North and South American countries and their entity-based and geographical applicability and coverage in terms of the overseas expansion of Japanese financial institutions. Further, in the agri-food area, he aims to provide legal services for the purposes of the introduction of smart agriculture, business expansion and diversification of financing sources, development and scaling of new business such as solar-sharing and onland aquaculture business, in each case while organizing the various laws and regulations applicable to each process of value chains of the agricultural, forestry and fishery business.

原田 伸彦

Nobuhiko Harada specializes in Japanese and cross-border asset finance transactions for aircraft, vessels, marine cargo containers, factory facilities, as well as other finance transactions for real estate, M&A finance, and DIP finance. He has vast experience of JOL/JOLCO transactions for aircraft, vessels, marine cargo containers, and other assets. He also has broad experience in insolvency and business restructuring (both in-court and out-of-court procedures) of various businesses including airlines, ship owners, hotel operators, golf course operators, real-estate business operators, trading companies and their subsidiaries in Asian countries. In addition to the abovementioned fields, he has expertize in airport business and the regulatory compliance of new businesses.