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Primyadar Duangrat, (Ph.D.)

August 30, 2018

Dr. Primyadar Duangrat is a highly regarded corporate and securities lawyer in Thailand, who is constantly ranked as top lawyer within her field of practice by leading international legal publications and organizations. Dr. Primyadar focuses her legal practice at Baker & McKenzie on areas of capital markets and mergers and acquisitions. She has been appointed as legal counsel for many Initial Public Offerings (IPO), involving both domestic and international offerings. She has also represented various Thai private companies and listed companies in its domestic and overseas (M&A), including prominent deals which usually involves an acquisition of foreign large companies. Aside from her corporate and capital market law practice, Dr. Primyadar regularly lectures at the Chulalongkorn University’s Faculty of Law and delivers seminars on various topics of law. She continues to be recognized in the corporate sector for her work on corporate good governance, a particular area of interest to her since her time at Oxford University where she completed her Doctorate degree (with distinction) with her thesis on the topic of Family-Based Governance in Thailand. Also at Oxford, she was awarded a Master of Studies (with distinction). Prior to that, Dr. Primyadar graduated from Harvard University with a Master of Laws, and a Bachelor of Laws, with honors, from Chulalongkorn University.