Announcements

DUENSING KIPPEN in the April-June 2015 Bikinis&Martinis: Thai courts have recently found the “secured”/”collective” leasehold, commonly marketed to foreigners, VOID. We explain these holdings.

Olaf Duensing’s article in Real Life in Phuket (an English/Russian monthly) explains the investment visa options available to foreign condominium owners in Thailand.

“The ASIAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY is IMMINENT – New International Marketing Strategies for Real Estate & Investment Businesses, Ensure You’re Prepared“

The first Introductory International Commercial Arbitration Course and Certification in Thailand in nine years will be conducted on Friday, 31 October 2104 in Bangkok. The course flyer with the relevant details can be viewed and/or downloaded here:

Founded in 1990, the International Alliance of Law Firms is an affiliation of prominent law firms represented across the globe that provides clients a rapid and effective response to their international business challenges. The Alliance has 63 member firms with over 100 offices in 45 countries and is expanding.

Olaf Duensing and Jerrold Kippen recently contributed their considerable collective arbitration expertise to the American Chamber of Commerce of Thailand’s bi-annual business magazine publication: Thai-American Business or “T-AB” with an article entitled: “Arbitration: enforcing contracts out side of Thai courts”. The article provides Amcham’s business community with a general and accessible overview of the availability and high advisability of including arbitration as the designated dispute resolution mechanism in their business contracts. To view the article click on the following link and see pages 24 and 26.

In a recently concluded international arbitration proceeding under the auspicious of the Thai Arbitration Institute, the Tribunal’s sole arbitrator, a Thai national, awarded DUENSING KIPPEN’s non-Thai investor client the client’s full claim amount plus interest from the time the claim was ripe at 7.5%/annum.

DUENSING KIPPEN has been engaged to represent a global ultra-luxury villa resort brand to represent it in constructing and structuring and operating its approximate THB 450 M/USD 15 M single resort villa site on the island of Yao Noi in Phang Nga, province near Phuket, Thailand.