Thailand

The local team of Baker McKenzie has strength in handling high-value, multijurisdictional transactions, advising on business succession, litigation and dispute resolution, and documentation. Its transfer pricing team led by Geoffrey Soh offers a wide range of transfer pricing services including planning, advisory, documentation, risk assessment and audit defense.

Details of the firm’s work and clients remain confidential.

Client feedback

“They always provide detail and description with their comment which helps the client to easily understand.”

“They can provide insightful and solid tax advice with a useful recommendation.”

Blumenthal Richter & Sumet is an independent law firm that focuses on advising international and Thai companies on navigating Thailand’s increasingly complex regulatory frameworks. Senior partner Sumet Mingmongkolmitr leads the tax and customs department. He is experienced in innovative tax planning in Thailand and advising on complex tax issues relating to foreign investment, offshore tax structuring and other areas. The team is active in sectors including automotive and automobile parts, elevators and escalators, energy, mechanical components, mining and materials, pharmaceuticals and life sciences, private clients, and real estate.

Details of the firm’s work and clients remain confidential.

Client feedback

“Perfect response and good results.”

Deloitte Thailand’s practice has established a significant presence within the country as it offers a wide range of services—including compliance, advisory, planning, and controversy. The team is capable of delivering relevant analysis and practical advice to clients regarding the environment of integrated tax systems. Its practice covers such areas as tax controversy and transactional tax and its partners have many years of experience respectively and are well-known advisers of their respective fields. Partner Nu To Van oversees the global trade advisory and indirect tax group at Deloitte.

Details of the firm’s work and clients remain confidential.

DFDL is a legal and tax firm with offices across 10 jurisdictions in APAC, including Bangladesh, Malaysia, Singapore, and Vietnam. The Thailand team offers integrated legal, tax and consulting services. Jack Sheehan and Jonathan Blaine are the key practitioners in the local team. Sheehan heads the regional tax practice. Blaine oversees the Thailand tax practice and the firm’s regional private client practice.

The team recently assisted a private client in providing international planning. The team led by Sheehan and supported by Blaine advised a Brazilian national and family on the potential structuring of family holdings and the creation of a Singapore trust that took into consideration certain aspects of Singapore, US and Brazilian tax laws and estate planning issues.

Jidapa Tiamsuttikarn joined DFDL as senior manager during the research period.

HLB Thailand is a member of HLB International, a global network of independent advisory and accounting firms located in 159 countries. Its team consists of more than 15 professionals and provides tax services including corporate and business tax, indirect tax, private client tax, tax dispute resolution, tax and transfer pricing due diligence reviews and health check.

During the research period, the team led by Andrew Jackomos was active in handling transfer pricing documentation. Clients included an in-house animation studio located in Bangkok.

The transfer pricing team added Dean Christopher Rangel and Natchapat Chaipongpati as senior consultant and consultant respectively in 2023. Two transfer pricing senior consultants left the firm during the research period.

The tax team at KPMG covers practice areas including transfer pricing, domestic and international tax, customs and trade, and tax deal advisory. It made a valuable contribution to the re-shaping of the Thai tax system, such as e-services tax law developments.

Details of the firm’s work and clients remain confidential.

Founded in 2015, Kudun & Partners is a law firm that combines hands-on experience with a collaborative approach to get results for clients including corporations, family businesses and high-net-worth individuals. It has expertise in tax planning for domestic and cross-border M&A investment structuring and tax optimisation. It is also capable of handling tax controversy, transfer pricing and indirect tax matters. Partner Saravut Krailadsiri is the co-head of the corporate restructuring and tax practice.

The team recently served as a lead counsel to a textile manufacturing and distribution company in Thailand and provided tax planning assistance. It worked with the client and developed a tax-efficient plan for its restructuring, ensuring compliance with all tax laws and regulations.

Chanattorn Thunyaluck departed from Tilleke & Gibbins and joined Kudun & Partners as a senior associate during the research period.

Client feedback

“Extremely responsive. Pragmatic, commercial advice. Confident and good communication.”

LawAlliance focuses on tax laws and offers strategic tax advice on structured finance, transfer pricing, corporate reorganisations, M&A and transactional restructures. It is experienced in handling matters related to personal and corporate income tax, value added tax, specific business tax, stamp duty and customs duty.

Details of the firm’s work and clients remain confidential.

Client feedback

“Makes effort to provide an advisory service that fulfils the expectations and is therefore helpful in a practical / operational way. Provides good overview verbally in introductory discussions, which constitutes a good general view of what we are embarking on in terms of fee / delivery balance.”

“Law Alliance is well known to our business and appealed well to the court. They have clear policy and strategy for tax controversy. They gave us nice advice for our witness hearing at the court.”

Lorenz & Partners is the local partner firm of WTS Global in Thailand. The team provides tax planning and counselling for foreign corporate investors and their expatriates. Its lawyers and tax experts have many years of experience in matters of national and international taxation. Partner Naowarat Karst heads the tax and accounting practice. Managing partner Till Morstadt is another key professional in the team. He is experienced in advising international companies investing in Southeast Asia.

The team recently worked as a sole advisor to Herrenknecht (Asia) in an ongoing tax dispute. The work involved negotiating with the revenue department.

After the takeover by Nishimura & Asahi, the tax practice at SCL Nishimura & Asahi now consists of tax practitioners and provides a full range of Thai and international taxation and customs services. It supports both listed and non-listed local and multinational corporations, as well as high net-worth individuals, to plan tax structures across various tax jurisdictions. It also counsels clients on both general and stand-alone taxation matters, with respect to business transactions such as takeovers, complex corporate acquisitions and dispositions.

Details of the firm’s work and clients remain confidential.

Tilleke & Gibbins offers services for a full range of tax matters including corporate tax, transfer pricing, customs and excise tax, double taxation treaties, international tax, personal income tax, tax controversies and disputes, tax efficient structures, tax planning and wealth management.

One recent example of the firm’s work saw it assisting PTT Oil and Retail PCL with tax advisory services for their strategic investment projects and initiatives.

Senior associates Peerapong Pornpipatkul and Chanattorn Thunyaluck left the firm during the research period.