Special Recognition

• Chambers and Partners Asia Pacific 2025 – Band 1 Lawyer - Banking & Finance and Projects & Energy
• asialaw Awards 2024 – Thailand Lawyer of the Year
• asialaw Leading Lawyers 2024/25 – Elite practitioner - Banking and Finance
• IFLR1000 2024 – Market Leader - Energy and Infrastructure, Banking, Project Finance
• The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2025 – Hall of Fame - Banking & Finance and Projects & Energy
• Who’s Who Legal 2024 – Leading Professional - Project Finance
• Chambers and Partners Global 2023 – Band 1 Lawyer - Banking & Finance and Projects & Energy
• ALB Southeast Asia Law Awards 2022 – Winner - Managing Partner of the Year (Emerging Markets)
• Outstanding Alumnus, Faculty of Law, Chulalongkorn University
   

Key Qualifications

Jessada is a Chairman and Senior Partner at Chandler Mori Hamada Limited. He specializes in banking and finance, particularly project finance, with a focus on major, cross-border energy and natural resources, infrastructure and real estate projects. He also provides advice on financial services and regulatory matters. He has extensive experience with all major commercial banks in Thailand, with leading international commercial banks, and with multinational financial institutions.

Relevant Client Experience

Some Representative Transactions:

• Thai Banks on financing an offshore wind power project in Vietnam. Shortlisted for project finance deal of the year by IFLR - Asia Pacific.

   

• Syndicated lenders in the financing of a major hydro power project, one of the largest hydroelectric power plants which the Thai sponsors have ever invested in Lao PDR.

   

• Thai and international banks on financing of eight IPP power projects in Thailand.

   

• Thai and international banks on project financing of six hydroelectric power projects in Laos PDR.

   

• Thai banks on the ongoing financing of numerous high-end real estate projects.

   

• Lenders on financing for construction of expressway and rail projects in Thailand.

   

• Lenders and sponsors on financing of infrastructure projects, including petrochemical and pipeline projects in Thailand.

   

• Lenders and borrowers on project financing of a number of renewable power projects (solar, wind, biomass, waste to energy, etc.) in Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, and Myanmar.

   

• Syndicated international banks in financing the acquisition of the controlling stake of a brewery in Vietnam.

   

Background

• Harvard University (Program of Instruction for Lawyers, 1992)
• University of Miami (LL.M., 1988)
• Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago-Kent College of Law (Master of American Legal Studies, 1987)
• Chulalongkorn University (LL.B., 1983)
• Barrister at Law, Institute of Legal Education of Thai Bar Association

Qualifications

• Thai lawyer license, 1984

   

Membership

• Ordinary Member of the Thai Bar Association
• Member of Lawyers Council of Thailand
• International Bar Association

Other Experience / Professional Affiliations

• Director for Asia Pacific, World Law Group (2015 - 2016)