Key Qualifications

Thitiyapa is an Associate in the REITs / Capital Markets practice at Chandler Mori Hamada Limited. She has been a tax and legal advisor for over four years. Her experience includes conducting due diligence exercises, advising on mergers and acquisitions, disposals and liquidations. She has extensive experience drafting and reviewing commercial agreements and a broad range of legal documents, providing tax and related advice for foreign investors, advising on employment and data protection issues.

Relevant Client Experience

Some Representative Transactions:

• Nomura Real Estate Co., Ltd., a major Japanese developer investing in townhouse project in Bangkok. The project is being developed by a joint venture involving of Origin Property PLC. and Nomura Real Estate. The project finance is being provided by TISCO Bank.

   

• INETREIT has made an initial investment in the ownership of the buildings and equipment related to the operation of a data center, namely INET-IDC3 Phase 1, located in Saraburi. The investment includes a leasehold right over the substation land.

   

• A Real Estate Investment Trust in acquiring freehold rights of additional assets, namely land and buildings consisting of factories and warehouses located in industrial estates and logistic parks. 

   

• Internet Thailand PCL on the setting up of INETREIT, which is the first real estate investment trust (“REIT”) to invest in a data center in Thailand and advised on the establishment of the REIT Manager to manage the REIT in addition to advising Internet Thailand PCL and KASIKORNBANK PCL on the financing for the investment. INETREIT has made an initial investment in the ownership of the buildings and equipment related to the operation of a data center, namely INET-IDC3 Phase 1, located in Saraburi. The investment includes a leasehold right over the substation land.

   

• WHA Industrial REIT Management Co., Ltd, as the REIT Manager of Hemaraj Leasehold Real Estate Investment Trust (HREIT), in respect to its second capital increase. Our team also represented Kasikorn Bank Public Company Limited (KBank) as the lender to HREIT. The purpose of the capital increase and fund raising is to invest in new assets.

   

• a Thailand-based company engaged in the business of fund management on the establishment of the first Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) to invest in healthcare assets.

   

Background

• University of California, Berkeley, School of Law (LL.M., 2023)
• Chulalongkorn University (LL.B. with 2^nd Class Honors, 2015)

Qualification

• Thai lawyer license, 2017

Membership

• Member of the Lawyers Council of Thailand
• Extraordinary Member of Thai Bar Association