PENSIT AND LAWS GROUP is a premier international law firm with a diversified practice. Our clients are offered the best of both worlds: a general practice with specialists for specific areas. The attorneys in our Group are totally committed to providing our clients with the experience and sophistication traditionally associated with much larger firms and ensuring that all our clients’ legal and business needs are met. Our aim is to fully understand our clients’ business, be considered a critical part of the same and building long-term relationships.
We have a solid base of expertise in civil and commercial practice and we have extensive experience in advising clients in and handling the full range of business and corporate matters. We also work closely with our associates who hold key government and corporate positions, heightening our familiarity with the rapid changes in and challenges of the regulatory and business environments and ensuring that we get the job done.


Corporate Support and Secretarial Services

Our corporate support and secretarial services team handles a portfolio of hundreds of local and foreign companies, including multinational corporations. We provide the full range of specialized and efficient corporate support and secretarial services to our clients including:

- Attending to the incorporation and registration of a limited company
- Attending to the application for and establishing the relevant foreign corporate
  presence
- Providing registered office facilities for the maintenance and keeping of the
  company books and common seal
- Arranging for the provision of nominee directors
- Properly maintaining and updating company statutory registers and minute books
- Advising on, organizing and attending meetings of shareholders and directors
- Preparing resolutions and minutes for directors' and shareholders' meetings
- Filing information and required returns

Besides incorporating and registering companies and providing the relevant corporate support and secretarial services, we also guide our clients through the business and legal environment in Thailand, and address potential issues that a new investor may encounter. We know the importance of understanding the nature of the client's business and activities and, where necessary, will work with our tax team to advise on an optimum structure for carrying on business in or through Thailand.


Immigration Services

Our immigration services team has the relevant experience and knowledge of the details, procedures and the various criteria required to qualify under the different immigration categories to guide our clients especially expatriate personnel through the entire Thai immigration process. Our goal is to use this experience and knowledge to simplify and clarify the Thai immigration process for our clients. Our services include:

- Advising on and making applications for various types of visas especially non-
  immigrant visas, type B
- Making applications for permanent residence permits
- Making applications for visa extensions and re-entry permits
- Making applications for work permits

We also handle immigration-related litigation.


Conveyancing & Property Law

Our conveyancing team comprises dedicated specialists who have been engaged in all aspects of conveyancing and property law since the inception of the PENSIT & LAWS GROUP. Our clients include retail consumers and corporate groups involved in real estate transactions in respect of residential, commercial and industrial properties in the following areas:

- Sale
- Purchase
- Rent/Lease
- Subdivision
- Charge

We also attend to all the relevant applications and registration of land dealings (including the ones listed above) at the relevant land authorities. Transactions involving high value real estate would usually be structured in share transfer by reason of the high fees involved in real estate transfers.

To complement our conveyancing and property law practice, we also attend to our clients' estate planning for example the preparation and execution of trusts and/or wills (including multi-jurisdictional wills). We also assist clients in probate and administration matters.


Tax

Our tax specialists provide advice on all areas including income tax (personal and corporate), value added tax, withholding tax (domestic/personal and international), specific business tax, etc.

Employment Law

We are able to provide advice on all aspects of employment law including employee-related issues in corporate matters. We also handle employment disputes such as wage claims, claims for wrongful dismissal, etc.


Family & Matrimonial Matters

Our highly experienced attorneys handle all delicate family and matrimonial matters with utmost care, sensitivity and discretion. We represent and advise clients in divorce and separation proceedings, ancillary issues relating to matrimonial property and other family matters. We advise clients of their rights and liabilities, negotiate settlements and handle court applications.


Litigation

Our litigation team handles the full range of civil, commercial and corporate litigation matters, with specialist teams dealing with specific areas.

We handle litigation matters including all aspects of real estate litigation (for example disputes in connection with the development of commercial and residential properties, vendor-purchaser and landlord-tenant claims), debt recovery work (as well as the follow-up execution process), contractual and tortious claims, quasi-contractual and restitutionary claims, agent-principal disputes, hire-purchase claims, misrepresentation, negligence, partnership, sale of goods and supply of services claims. As mentioned above, we also handle immigration-related litigation, employment disputes and family and matrimonial matters.


In the following pages, we provide a short briefing of the Thai legal system and relevant Thai laws: click to see more

Disclaimer: The information, discussions and opinions contained herein are not intended to be a comprehensive study nor to provide advice, legal or otherwise and should not under any circumstances be treated as a substitute for specific advice, legal or otherwise, in respect of individual situations and circumstances.


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