Partner and Director, Corporate and Commercial
Thailand contracts: CCC, bilingual drafts, priced modules.
Thailand is a live corridor. Local licensed professionals review every engagement. Cross-border paper into Thailand sits on the Civil and Commercial Code, not a pasted Singapore common-law form.
Licensed local professionals in Thailand review every engagement. No legal work and no fees begin until you approve the Matter Pack.
What makes Thailand contract review different?
- 01Private-law drafting sits on the Civil and Commercial Code. A holding-company common-law template is a starting file, not the governing grammar.
- 02Bilingual Thai/English drafts are the working habit. When a filing, a bank, or a labour counterparty is in the room, the Thai text often controls. Record which language is the working draft and which is the filing draft.
- 03The Foreign Business Act can sit behind a simple-looking distribution appointment. Whether the counterparty is a majority-Thai company is a fact question, not an FBA opinion.
- 04Arbitration splits locally and regionally: THAC is the local institution many Thai counterparties know; SIAC is the regional seat many origin group forms already named. Seat and governing law stay two fields.
- 05PDPA B.E. 2562 overlays DPA and employment paper. It is a different statute from Singapore’s PDPA. Typical path: NDA, then distribution or supply, then employment, then shareholders.
Startup pack: NDA, non-exclusive distribution or services, first employment contract, optional EOR. Default is a single matter.
Mid-market pack: exclusive distribution or MSA plus SOW, DPA, SHA or JV, employment templates. Default is an annual module.
Contracts most often scoped into Thailand
Each file links to the cluster page that carries its drafting notes. The usual order is NDA, then distribution or supply, then employment, then shareholders.
One-way NDAConfidentiality & pre-dealMutual NDAConfidentiality & pre-dealDistribution AgreementChannel & distributionExclusive Distribution AgreementChannel & distributionSupply AgreementProcurement & supply chainEmployment AgreementEmployment & peopleShareholders’ AgreementCorporate, investment & JVData Processing AgreementData, privacy & security
Contract clusters
Counsel resident in Thailand
Orbid scopes the Matter Pack. Licensed professionals resident in Thailand read the pack, confirm the gaps, and carry the legal judgment. No legal work and no fees begin until you approve the pack.
Partner, Employment and Compensation
Partner and Head of Technology, Data and Innovation
Partner, Litigation and Arbitration
Four firms, four benches: Foreign Business Act, employment, PDPA, and arbitration. Each card links to the published profile it is drawn from.
Matters delivered into Thailand
Three engagements, written down the way the pack recorded them. Demo data for internal review.
Germany to Thailand
FestoIndustrial automation
Appointing an exclusive distributor for a pneumatics line in Thailand while the group template still assumed Singapore common law.
In the Matter Pack
- Mutual NDA
- Exclusive distribution
- Trademark licence side letter
What the Matter Pack settled
Governing law and arbitral seat were separated into two fields instead of one. Whether the counterparty was majority-Thai was recorded as a fact in the pack before drafting started, so the Foreign Business Act question never became an opinion.
Turnaround9 business days
Singapore to Thailand
Zuellig PharmaHealthcare distribution
Thai hires for a Bangkok service team, plus a data processing addendum covering patient-adjacent records.
In the Matter Pack
- Employment agreement
- DPA
- One-way NDA
What the Matter Pack settled
Thai text was set as the filing draft and English as the working draft, recorded per document. PDPA B.E. 2562 was mapped on its own rather than inherited from the group's Singapore PDPA clauses.
Turnaround7 business days
Germany to Thailand
B. BraunMedical devices
Supply and audit terms with a Thai contract manufacturer, after two rounds of pasted templates stalled with the counterparty.
In the Matter Pack
- Shareholders agreement
- Supply
- Audit rights addendum
What the Matter Pack settled
Shareholding and board mechanics were rebuilt on the Civil and Commercial Code. Supply and audit terms were priced as separate modules so the timetable did not wait on them.
Turnaround18 business days
Turnaround runs from pack approval to delivered draft, not from first contact.
Questions
Why not paste a Singapore common-law form?
The private-law backbone here is the Civil and Commercial Code.
Can a distribution appointment hide the Foreign Business Act?
It can. Whether the counterparty is majority-Thai is a fact in the pack, not an FBA opinion.
Which privacy statute overlays Thai paper?
PDPA B.E. 2562 — not Singapore’s PDPA.