Legal updates, practical guidance, and thought leadership from our team, covering the developments that matter to businesses operating in Thailand.
Hire-purchase looks simple until the hirer stops paying. Then the paperwork and the procedure decide everything, and an owner who moves on instinct rather than on the rules can turn a recoverable debt into a losing case.
When a sale goes wrong, the client wants to talk about who broke the deal. The first question a litigator asks is narrower and more decisive: what kind of contract was this? In Thai law, the answer sets the remedy, the evidence, and often the outcome.
When a client comes to us about a piece of land, the instinct is to start with the argument. We start with the paper. In a Thai land dispute the title document is not background, it is the case. It tells you what right the client actually holds, what they have to prove, and how long they have to act.
You have won your arbitration. The tribunal has ruled in your favour and issued the award. The instinct is to treat the dispute as over. In Thailand, it is not. An award is a right, not yet a remedy, and the steps you take in the months that follow decide whether that right turns into money in the bank.
A new blacklisting ground for state contractors, a permanent footing for the nominee crackdown, and the Sadao border crossing moves this week. Plus the July deadlines already in force.
If you are closing a Thai home or condominium purchase right now, start here: the reduced property transfer and mortgage fees lapsed on 30 June B.E. 2569 (2026). As of today, the full 2 percent transfer fee and 1 percent mortgage fee are back, and they stay back until the renewed scheme is published in the Royal Gazette.
If your business sells goods to Thai customers, makes or imports food packaging, runs an electronic-tax or withholding workflow, sits inside a large multinational group, or donates to schools and sport, the Thai Cabinet's session of 16 June B.E. 2569 (2026), chaired by Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul, is worth a scan. Five developments to review, and what is and is not yet in force.
Thailand's nominee crackdown is legitimate, but it catches both the Thai partner and the foreigner. Prof. Dej-Udom Krairit on what's lawful, what isn't, and what investors should do now.
Thailand's regulators are actively prosecuting influencers personally for promotional content that violates sectoral statutes. This client alert maps the eight product and service categories that trigger criminal liability for promotion in Thailand, sets out the disclosure rules for permitted promotion, and gives content creators, brands, and agencies a practical compliance baseline.