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Private Equity from the Perspective of
Thai Laws and Market Practice
Jirapong Sriwat*
Dr.Apinya Sarntikasem**
1 Introduction
To the practitioners and investors in the US and Europeûs finance and
merger and acquisition industry, the term çprivate equityé may be
somewhat familiar, as it signifies the lucrative investment
opportunities. Private equity firms have been behind the success of
numerous companies, either a start-up or a well-established entity.
The examples of this success is countless - from FaceBookûs US$ 16
billion initial public offering (an çIPOé), SoftBankûs seed funding for
Alibaba and Googleûs Series B funding round from Kleiner Perkins and
Sequoia Capital to Bain Capitalûs acquisition of Toshibaûs memory chip
** Partner at Nishimura & Asahi (Thailand) Co., Ltd.; LL.B. (Thammasat University with second-
class honors); LL.M. (London School of Economics with high merits).
** Attorney-at-law at Nishimura & Asahi (Thailand) Co., Ltd.; LL.B. (Chulalongkorn University
with first-class honors); LL.M. (New York University School of Law); LL.D. (Kyushu University
with full Japanese government scholarship); Thai barrister-at-law.
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