Special Recognition

• IFLR1000 2024 – Notable practitioner - Restructuring and Insolvency

Key Qualifications

Supalerk is a Counsel at Chandler Mori Hamada  in the Dispute and Resolution Department. Before joining Chandler Mori Hamada, he was an associate with another international law firm in Bangkok.
He has handled a broad range of litigation matters and represented individual and corporate clients before court and arbitration hearings in relation to a variety of business and contract disputes. In addition, he represents clients in criminal cases. Cases advised on have included cases related to software implementation, construction, maritime insurance, intellectual property disputes, labour, shareholder disputes, malpractice cases and white-collar crime matters.

Relevant Client Experience

Some Representative Transactions:

• A major Thai bank in a dispute over a software implementation project.

   

• A leading food manufacturing company in an arbitration regarding the construction of a factory.

   

• Individual and corporate clients in white collar criminal matters, including advising on a case involving the cancellation of an asset transfer worth THB 1.8 billion which had been intended to be made to wrongfully avoid unsecured debt claims and defraud creditors.

   

• A leading multinational electronics company in shareholder disputes.

   

• A major natural gas company in Thailand in opposition against a court order compelling the company to continually distribute natural gas to a debtor under rehabilitation.

   

• A trademark proprietor in a series of legal disputes under the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction.

   

• An individual client in a family dispute under the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction.

   

• Thai and multinational companies in various copyright and trademark matters, including matters involving copyright infringement, trademark infringement, trademark registration, opposition, appeal, cancellation, and other trademark planning matters.

   

• Clients in a variety of contract claims, including involving Joint Venture Agreements, Sale and Purchase Agreements, Service Agreements, Lease Agreements, Construction Agreements etc.

   

• Employers and employees in various labour disputes for unfair dismissal, breach of employment agreement and claim for severance pay.

   

Background

• Chulalongkorn University (LL.M. in International Business Law, 2008)
• Barrister at Law, Institute of Legal Education of Thai Bar Association (2005)
• Ramkhamhaeng University (LL.B. with 2nd Class Honors, 2004)

Qualification

• Thai Barrister at Law, 2005
• Thai lawyer license

Membership

• Member of permanent license to practice law, the Lawyers Council of Thailand
• Ordinary Member of the Thai Bar Association, 2005

Other Experience / Professional Affiliations

• Institute of Legal Education Thai Bar Association, Advance Intellectual Property Law: International Practice and Intellectual Property Litigation
• Institute of Advance Legal Profession at Lawyer Councils of Thailand, Certificate Course: Intellectual Property Law and Tax Planning