Jessada Sawatdipong

Senior Partner | Chairman

Bangkok Office

English / Thai

+66-2-009-5100

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Practices Related Topics Profile

Practices

Banking and Project Financing

Energy, Natural Resources and Infrastructure

Government Contracts

Profile

Special Recognitions

Chambers and Partners Global 2026 - Band 1 Lawyer - Banking & Finance and Projects & Energy
Chambers and Partners Asia Pacific 2026 - Band 1 Lawyer - Banking & Finance and Projects & Energy
The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2026 - Hall of Fame: Banking and finance | Projects and energy, Recommended lawyers: Transport
Asia Business Law Journal: 2025 Thailand’s 28 Legal Icons
asialaw Regional Legal Expertise Awards 2025 - Asia Banking and Finance Lawyer of the Year⁠
asialaw Leading Lawyers 2025/26 - Elite Practitioner - Banking and Finance, Energy
IFLR1000 2025 - Market leader - Energy and infrastructure, Banking, Project finance
In-House Community (IHC) - Counsels of the Year 2025
asialaw Awards 2024 - Thailand Lawyer of the Year
Who’s Who Legal 2024 - Leading Professional - Project Finance
ALB Southeast Asia Law Awards 2022 - Winner - Managing Partner of the Year (Emerging Markets)
Outstanding Alumnus, Faculty of Law, Chulalongkorn University

Key Qualifications

Jessada is Chairman and Senior Partner at Chandler Mori Hamada. He specializes in Banking and Project Financing with a focus on major Thai and cross-border energy, infrastructure and real estate project financings. He also provides advice on financial services and regulatory matters. He has extensive experience with all major commercial banks in Thailand, with leading international commercial banks, and with multinational financial institutions.

Relevant Client Experience

Some Representative Transactions:

Thai Banks on financing an offshore wind power project in Vietnam. Shortlisted for project finance deal of the year by IFLR - Asia Pacific.
Syndicated lenders in the financing of a major hydro power project, one of the largest hydroelectric power plants which the Thai sponsors have ever invested in Lao PDR.
Thai and international banks on financing of eight IPP power projects in Thailand.
Thai and international banks on project financing of six hydroelectric power projects in Laos PDR.
Thai banks on the ongoing financing of numerous high-end real estate projects.
Lenders on financing for construction of expressway and rail projects in Thailand.
Lenders and sponsors on financing of infrastructure projects, including petrochemical and pipeline projects in Thailand.
Lenders and borrowers on project financing of a number of renewable power projects (solar, wind, biomass, waste to energy, etc.) in Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, and Myanmar.
Syndicated international banks in financing the acquisition of the controlling stake of a brewery in Vietnam.

Background

Harvard University (Program of Instruction for Lawyers, 1992)
University of Miami (LL.M., 1988)
Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago-Kent College of Law (Master of American Legal Studies, 1987)
Chulalongkorn University (LL.B., 1983)