Veritas Law is a full-service independent law firm in Thailand found by Mr. Ruengrit Pooprasert, a well-known Thai lawyer who had worked in both international and regional law firms for two decades. This unique experience places us in the best position to provide practical and holistic services for all clients. Veritas Law is a modern, innovative and commercially focused law firm. Our lawyers combine knowledge of local markets with an understanding of its clients’ business and legal needs to provide practical and commercial solutions.
Our corporate and commercial practice offers comprehensive legal services to domestic and international clients. Over the years, our lawyers have provided advice and assistance to a wide range of clients including individuals, private and public companies, national and multinational corporations as well as state owned enterprises.
Veritas Law is committed to provide high quality and commercially sensible legal advice to clients and strives to deliver our legal services in a timely and cost-effective manner. We honour the trust of our client and would provide utmost level of expertise to maintain the trust of clients. We work hard to listen to our clients, know the business and the people and understand the expectation of our clients. At Veritas Law, we help clients to achieve their objectives and maximizing their business interests.
Founded in 2018
10 people in their team
5 / 5
15/11/2021
Martina:
Khun Ruengrit provided me with very helpful information regarding my employment rights here in Thail ...
Our corporate and commercial practice offers comprehensive legal services to domestic and international clients which we provide full service beginning from the provision of legal advice to the setting up of the business, including apply for requires licenses and permits until the clients could be able to run business smoothly in Thailand.
We also participate in cross-border M&A projects where commencing with the due diligence is required prior to the acquisition of the business and completing with the preparation of definitive agreements, including but is not limited to joint venture agreement, shareholders’ agreement and sale and purchase agreement under which the structure has been designed to suit each transaction.
In addition, we also provide a company secretarial service to MNC clients worldwide.
We have assisted many MNC clients pertaining to the employment and labor matters in relation to local legal and practical labor issues. We help clients comply with the local labor laws from the very beginning of employment process up until the termination, including mitigation the issues thereof. We help creating employment documentation which are legally required or may not be legally required but good for the best practice in Thailand. We ensure that the employment process and documentation will be fully compliant with the Thai labor laws.
We specialize in personal data protection and privacy laws in which we have served many companies, both private limited company and public limited company in Thailand for their compliance and also provided our legal advice to the overseas entities for the local compliance. Our unique service in personal data protection and privacy laws are full-service starting from identifying gaps, bridging the gaps, helping implement compliance procedures and documents, crating awareness for the organization, including being outsource personal data protection officer (DPO).
We have assisted both Thai and foreign clients in relation to real estate matters in Thailand, including conduction of land due diligence in all parts of Thailand, provision of legal advice on how to legally hold land ownership of lands in Thailand including on how to have the rights or other encumbrances over the lands for instance lease or mortgage, and assistance with the relevant registration thereof.
Experience
Ruengrit is a Founder and Managing Partner of Veritas Law Limited. He is an experienced corporate lawyer, specialising in international business transactions, data protection & privacy, employment, cross-border M&A and foreign direct investment laws. He began his career in 1999 as an international associate with a US firm in Cleveland, Ohio, advising on Thai law in commercial contracts and foreign investment in Thailand.
Ruengrit has been involved in a number of acquisitions and disposals of equity in Thailand, in sectors such as food, property, telecommunications and manufacturing.
He is also experienced in the resources and energy sector and advised the Petroleum Authority of Thailand (PTT) on its privatisation and initial public offering.
Education and Qualifications
Ruengrit holds a Master of Laws from Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA and Bachelor of Laws from the Assumption University, Bangkok, Thailand.
Non-Practice Engagements
He wrote the Thailand section in “A Global Competition Review Special Report on Telecoms and Media 2005 – Getting the Deal Through”, and the Thailand section in “Hiring the Best Qualified and Most Talented Employees Handbook on Global Recruiting, Screening, Testing and Interviewing Criteria” published by Kluwer Law International and International Bar Association in 2008. He also wrote the Thailand section in the “GTDT’s Corporate Immigration guide for 2018-2019” published on Lexology.
In 2007 to 2008, he was an Expert to the Committee on Consumer Protection, National Legislative Assembly. In 2008 to March 2009, he was on the Sub-Committee to the Investigation and Adjudication Bureau, Office of the Election Commission of Thailand.
In March 2009 to October 2011, he was a member of the Board and an Audit Committee of the Metropolitan Electricity Authority of Thailand. In September 2013, he was appointed by the Senate to be the advisor to the Sub-Committee on Air Transport under the Senate Standing Committee on Transportation; and to the Sub-Committee on Studying and Examining the Transportation Contract under the Senate Standing Committee on Transportation. In 2018 till date, he was appointed by the Law Reform Committee of Thailand to serve as a sub-committee to the Law Reform Commission. Recently in 2019, he was named as the A-list - Thailand’s Top 100 Lawyers from Asian Business Law Journal.
He receives certificates in Director Certification Program (DCP120) and Audit Committee Program (ACP28) from the Thai Institute of Directors in 2009 and a certificate in Public Director Certification Program from the Public Director Institute in 2010. He also receives certificates in Data Protection Officer (DPO) from ACIS Professional Center in 2019.
Languages
Thai - Native
English - Fluent
Experience
Chotika is an experienced corporate and labour & employment lawyer, and has extensive experience of advising local and international clients on business incorporation, foreign direct investment, regulatory compliance and restrictions and privileges applying to foreigners and foreign investments, including foreign business license and privileges under Thailand’s Board of Investment and Industrial Estate Authority in Thailand. She has also advised on a number of recent major mergers and acquisitions transactions.
Education and Qualifications
Chotika received her LL.M. and LL.B. (1st Class Honours) degrees from Thammasat University, Thailand. She holds Thai Lawyer License and Notarial Services Attorney Certificate, Lawyers Council of Thailand. She is also member of Barrister at Law, Institute of Legal Education Thai Bar Association.
Recently, she has successfully completed Data Protection Officer Certification Training Course. Therefore, she receives the certificates in Certified Data Protection Officer (CDPO) from ACIS Professional Center in 2020
Non-Practice Engagements
Chotika contributed as the author the Thailand section in “Corporate Immigration 2018 and 2019 - Getting the Deal Through” and Thailand section in “Vertical Agreement 2019” – Getting the Deal Through. She also wrote section Country Feature on Thailand: Why Thailand still has not Issued Sukuk - IFN Volume 16 Issue 25 dated the 26th June 2019.
Languages
Thai - Native
English - Fluent
Review summary
5.0
1 Reviews
5 / 5
15/11/2021
Martina:
Khun Ruengrit provided me with very helpful information regarding my employment rights here in Thailand, as those differe fundamentally from the rights in my own home country.
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