Thailand: M&A/Private Equity

Thailand's Trade Competition Commission has proposed significant amendments to its competition regulations, including lowering market dominance thresholds from 50% to 33% market share and reducing turnover requirements from THB 1 billion to THB 500 million. These changes would substantially expand merger filing obligations and introduce dynamic assessment criteria for rapidly evolving digital markets, potentially affecting a broader range of businesses under the country's competition framework.

After several years of policy discussion and continued efforts led by the Ministry of Commerce (MOC) to relax the list of reserved businesses under the Foreign Business Act B.E. 2542 (1999) (FBA)...

Spurred by global geopolitics and Canada's Indo-Pacific Strategy, which aims to forge deeper ties with ASEAN, Canadian companies have been showing growing interest...

Thailand's Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has announced a public hearing on proposed amendments to takeover regulations under Thailand's Security and Exchange Act B.E. 2535 (1992)...

Expectations for impact investment have been increasing in Japan. The promotion of impact investment was established as a clear policy goal in the "Grand Design and Action Plan for a New Form of

Live Exchange, also called LiVEx, is a newly established secondary market under the cooperation of the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") and the Stock Exchange of Thailand.

On May 23, 2022, the Public Limited Companies Act (No. 4) B.E. 2565 (2022) was approved and published in the Government Gazette.

Thailand's long-awaited new Trade Competition Act B.E. 2560 (2017) (TCA) came into effect on October 5, 2017, and the legislation's extensive reforms of both substantive and procedural rules

On 9 March 2020, Tesco Plc ("Tesco") announced the sale of its operations in Thailand and Malaysia to four entities under Charoen Pokphand Group, for US$10.6 billion.