Kobkit Thienpreecha, partner in Tilleke & Gibbins’ Bangkok office, and Vinh Quoc Nguyen, senior associate in the firm’s Ho Chi Minh City office, will present at a webinar on “Liberalization of ASEAN Capital Markets,” hosted by Lex Mundi.

Three Tilleke & Gibbins partners have been invited to lecture at the “ASEAN Business and Investment Law Training Course,” hosted by the Law and Development Research Center, Faculty of Law, Chulalongkorn University. The course is designed for legal practitioners and academics who hold an interest in business and investment laws in Southeast Asia.Our lawyers will present on the following topics:

Weak legal structure, expensive land, lack of liquidity, and an undercapitalized banking system have discouraged land purchase and ownership in Yangon, the capital of Myanmar. This has led to a challenging property market, particularly in the residential sector. To comment on these issues and more, Nwe Oo, attorney-at-law in Tilleke & Gibbins’ Yangon office, was interviewed by the Bangkok Post, a widely-circulated newspaper in Thailand.

Piyanuj (Lui) Ratprasatporn, partner and director of Tilleke & Gibbins’ corporate and commercial department, will participate as a panelist at “Polish Business Seminar: Discover Business in Thailand,” an event hosted by ASBIRO. The seminar will focus on investment and business opportunities in Thailand; working, doing business, and investing in Thailand; investments in apartments, condominiums, and luxury housing; and business realities. Lui’s panel discussion will focus on the topic, “Startups Incubator and Venture Capital in Thailand.”