Our Partners

Nugool Khongrod

Managing Partner

Experience in legal, tax and business areas. He initially worked for Bangkok Attorney (an international law office), and then joined the legal & tax firms i.e. PricewaterhouseCoopers and Deloitte respectively. At Deloitte, he was a Legal Director who led, managed and developed the legal team/services of the firm.

Nugool Khongrod received a bachelor degree of law from Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand. He also pursued his MBA from Strayer University, Washington D.C., USA

 

 

Attorney-at-Law License No. 1287/1988

 

 

Chackarin Umpote

Partner

Mr. Chackarin Umpote is the Partner of Asian Legal and Tax Strategies Limited. He handles both legal and tax related works.  He has practiced laws in the following areas 

  • intellectual property both in Thailand and abroad, 
  • commercial legal issues 
  • corporate legal works 
  • foreign investment 
  • Board of Investment (“BOI”) 
  • Foreign Business Act, foreign business licenses (“FBL”) and foreign business certificate (“FBC”)
  • merger & acquisition
  • investment laws in Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam 
  • corporate income tax 
  • VAT 
  • tax compliance
  • dealing with the Revenue Department 
  • Cross-border transaction tax.  

Chackarin has practiced laws for more than 15 years. Before joining ALT, he was Legal and Tax Director at Bolliger & Company Consulting Ltd (formally Bryan Cave Thailand).,Chief legal counselor at UBE Group Thailand, a lawyer at Deloitte Touche Thomatsu, Bangkok Office and a legal officer at Siam Cement Group. 

Education

  • Master in Intellectual Property, Franklin Pierce Law Center
  • Master of Comparative Jurisprudence, Howard University
  • Bachelor of Law, Bangkok University

Languages

  • English 
  • Thai

 

Attorney-at-Law License 2004
Patent Attorney License 1998

 

 

Takemura Fumio

Partner

Mr. Takemura is our advisor in the field of business development, particularly for Japanese business. After finishing master’s degree in industrial chemistry at Meiji University, Japan and overseas research program, in Mulhouse France and in Boston Massachusetts USA, he has been serving in various private industries in Japan, USA and Thailand. During his 40 years of services, he is familiar with Quality Control (ISO, GMP, etc), Production Control, R&D, Technology & Know-how Evaluation, M&A, Marketing, Sales and H.R management. 

Our People

Legal Services
  1. Legal commercial work

            1.1       Legal Advice
            1.2       Contract Drafting
            1.3       Review and Comment on Contracts
            1.4       Legal Due Diligence
            1.5       Merger and Acquisition (M & A)
            1.6       Employment
            1.7       Legal Commercial
            1.8       Intellectual Property

  1. Corporate services

            2.1       Corporate Restructuring
            2.2       Corporate Registration
            2.3       Corporate Secretarial Services

  1. Investment (Joint Venture, BOI, IEAT) 
  1. Work Permit and Visa
  1. Litigation, Arbitration and Debt Collection
Tax Services
  1. Tax Compliance Services
  2. Value Added Tax (VAT)
  3. Tax Dispute Resolution
  4. International Tax
  5. Mergers & Acquisitions
  6. International Assignment Services
Other Services
  1. Translation
  2. Notarial Service (Notary Public)
  3. New Law Regulation Update
  4. Coordination for Investment in AEC Countries

 

 

Our clients are in the following industries:

  • Logistic businesses including one of the largest Japanese business
  • Infrastructure businesses e.g., electrical train and deep sea electrical wide 
  • Consumer business e.g., beverages
  • Mining 
  • Freight forwarders
  • Agricultural 
  • Cold storages 
  • Electrical products
  • Trading
  • Petrochemical businesses
  • Service businesses e.g., damage surveyor and marketing consultant

Under Construction

 

About The Company

Asian Legal and Tax Strategies Limited is an international law firm established at the beginning of 2005 to provide legal and tax services to our domestic and international clients. The company is located in the business area, Silom-Surawongs, Bangkok, Thailand.

 

Our Vision

“To be recognized as a distinctive international legal service provider whose strength is superior quality for both legal and tax advice, planning and implementing full business legal works”

 

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Basically, our fees will be calculated by reference to time spent, at rates which reflect such factors as complexity, monetary value and specialist input, and will take into account urgency and inherent risks and the use of techniques, expertise, research and know-how developed within our organization.

Case-by-case assignment

For a case-by-case basis assignment, we may give our clients a number of hours of particular lawyers who will carry out the work as well as the amounts of fees chargeable to the clients in advance. The fees, scope of services as well as other material terms and conditions for the assignment from our clients will be contained in the service proposal that we prepare and propose to the clients for their approval and signatures before commencing each work.

This can apply to any work such as legal advice, legal document review or preparation, work permit and visa applications, capital increase, change of directors of a company, etc.

Retainer

We also provide our client legal services on a monthly basis for a normal period of one year. Under this arrangement, a fixed fee will be payable monthly for certain number of hours. An invoice will be issued to our clients each month in the appropriate amount.

There would be no limitation on access or hours to be worked arising from the application in accordance with this arrangement. However, every month the accumulated hours worked by our assigned lawyers would be evaluated at the appropriate rate and compared with the cumulative fees received under this arrangement. A separate fee note would then be issued to collect any additional fees due for the preceding month with 10% discount on the normal hourly rate applicable. The time underspent in any month, however, will not be carried forwarded.

Yearly fee for corporate secretarial services

During business operation, a company is required to comply with the corporate law such as holding a ordinary general meeting of the shareholders, holding a board of directors’ meeting, updating shareholders’ register, updating a list of shareholders and filling its with the Ministry of Commerce, issuing new Share Certificates, holding a meeting for dividend payment or when the company makes losses at particular level as prescribed by law, etc. (Please refer to more details of the corporate secretarial work in the Attachment.) These are a kind of routine corporate work that we provide to our clients annually. The service fees will be fixed with the amount depending on the volume of work as will be fixed with the clients in advance.

Optionally, our client may request or assign the corporate works to us on a case-by-case basis as mentioned above.

 

 

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Our Associates

Khwanchai  Singhapak
Senior Tax Associate

Mr. Khwanchai Singhapak specializes in tax laws.  He has practiced tax law for 24 years. Before joining ALT, he was tax consultant at Dharmniti Law Office and Tax & Business Consultant Ltd.  He has extensive experience in both Thai local tax laws and double taxation Agreement between Thailand and other countries.   His expertise is in the following areas:

  • Tax Advice
  • Tax Planning
  • Tax Compliance
  • Coordination with the Revenue Department
  • Tax Due Diligence

Languages

  • English
  • Thai

 

Prisana Srivichasoi
Lawyer

Ms. Prisana Srivichasoi has been practicing laws since 2007.  She is a corporate and commercial lawyer.  She also practice in the area of litigation and her expertise include the following areas:

  • Legal transactions and business contracts
  • Corporate work
  • Work permit and visa application
  • Legal research and translation
  • Litigation

Education

  • Barrister at Law
  • Bachelor in Law, Rangsit University

Languages

  • Thai
  • English

Licenses

  • Attorney-at-law License
  • Notarial service attorney license