Piyaporn Thongsombat is a senior attorney in the Bangkok office focusing on business litigation and arbitration.

Piyaporn has extensive experience in various civil litigation matters including construction, employment, shareholder dispute, tort and general breach of contract claims. She also has experience in contentious insolvency, business reorganization as well as claims in relation to the Bankruptcy Court. She has also represented her clients in the proceedings of the Central Administrative Court and the National Anti-Corruption Commission of Thailand (NACC). With respect to the criminal cases, Piyaporn advised various offshore companies on certain criminal offenses.

Relevant Experience

• Representing a leading Thai telecom company in an environmental case in which certain individuals claimed compensation for damage to their health resulting from the electromagnetic radiation emitted from the operator’s base stations. This is the first case of this nature in Thailand.
• Representing a medical supply distributor with respect to wrongful act (a consumer case under the Consumer Case Procedure Act) claimed by a female foreign patient against a well-known private hospital, the obstetrician and the medical supply distributor.
• Representing a Thai construction company, a subsidiary of a leading infrastructure company in Malaysia in various disputes with local contractors, and the enforcement of an arbitral award rendered by the Asian International Arbitration Centre relating to disputes under a construction contract in a Thai court against the Thai construction company.
• Representing a leading UK-based water management business in arbitration proceedings against a Thai government entity concerning a waste water treatment project governed by the arbitration rules of the Thai Arbitration Institute.
• Representing a manufacturer in a claim against insurers under the Office of Insurance Commission proceedings as a result of the major flooding in Thailand in 2011.
• Representing various owners, developers, contractors and subcontractors in construction disputes.
• Representing an international bank in an investigation relating to alleged corruption conducted by the National Anti-Corruption Commision of Thailand (NACC).
• Representing leading telecom companies in the Central Administrative Court and arbitration proceedings.
• Representing an international TV Chanel on its claim involving unpaid licensing fees from a Thai pay-tv operator.
• Advising and representing various companies in relation to labour law issues and labour disputes.
• Advising clients in lease agreement matters.

Education
LLM, International Economic Law, University of Warwick, 1998Graduate Diploma in Business Law, Thammasat University, 1994LLB, Faculty of Law, Thammasat University, 1990