Waranon Vanichprapa
Bangkok Managing Partner
Waranon (Warren) is an award-winning banking and finance lawyer in Thailand. Backed by 25+ years of global experience, he solves complex cross-border finance issues.
Awards & Recognition
Biography
Languages - English and Thai
Jurisdiction - Lawyer admitted with the Lawyers Council of Thailand
Warren leads financial institutions, multi-national corporations, and foreign investors through complex financial landscapes. He helps international clients successfully navigate demanding inbound investments while steering domestic companies through their first major outbound expansions. By tailoring solutions to both local nuances and global standards, Warren ensures cross-border stakeholders achieve their commercial objectives securely.
He provides expert legal counsel across all banking and lending transactions, including acquisition finance, structured finance, project financing, and debt restructuring. Drawing on extensive international experience in London, Hong Kong, and Singapore, Warren resolves intricate financing regulatory matters and bankruptcy issues. Clients frequently praise him as an outstanding problem-solver who excels at resolving gridlocks and efficiently closing high-stakes transactions.
Optimised for legal excellence over 25 years, Warren delivers award-winning results in banking and finance, earning consistent top rankings in Chambers Global, Legal 500, and IFLR1000. His strategic guidance directly transforms complex regulatory hurdles into successful, award-winning cross-border deals.
Experience
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Pink and Yellow train lines financing
Advising Bangkok Bank Public Company Limited The Siam Commercial Bank Public Company Limited and Krungthai Bank Public Company Limited as mandated lead arrangers and lenders and then syndication process to Asian Development Bank and on their approx. THB60 billion financing for the construction of Mass Rapid Transit Pink and Yellow Line with sponsors being BTS Holding, Ratchaburi and Stecon.
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Thai Airways debt restructuring
Representing CIMB Bank (Thai) Plc and Bank of Ayudhya Plc as all bondholders’ representatives for all bond debts of THB75 billion in the Thai Airways debt restructuring process.
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PTTOR syndicated financing
Advising Bangkok Bank PCL, Mizuho Bank, SMBC, Krungthai Bank PCL and Government Savings Bank on their THB38.5 billion five syndicated facility agreements for PTTOR Public Company Limited.
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Energy Absolute refinancing and restructuring
Advising Energy Absolute Public Company Limited on the refinancing and restructuring of four renewable energy projects, involving a Partial Business Transfer (PBT) structure and the purchase of outstanding debt from a third party commercial bank.
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Bangchak Corporation acquisition financing
Advising Bangchak Corporation Public Company Limited on approximately $170 million in acquisition financing facilities provided by DBS Bank and OCBC to support its acquisition of Chevron HK Limited.
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Intouch Holdings acquisition
Advising The Siam Commercial Bank Plc on its acquisition financing loan of THB10 billion to Gulf Energy Development Plc on its tender offer finagling of Intouch Holdings Plc.
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DayOne Data Centre project financing
Acting as borrower and sponsor counsel for Digitalland Services (Thailand) Ltd. (DayOne Data Centres’ subsidiary) in the THB28 billion financing of a greenfield hyperscale data centre development in Thailand’s Industrial Zone, involving six local and offshore commercial bank lenders, the largest data centre financing in Thailand.
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Bangchak Corporation acquisition of Esso Thailand financing
Representing Bangchak Corporation Public Company Limited on its approximately THB32 billion acquisition financing to acquire ExxonMobil in Thailand.
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Gulf 1 project financing
Acting as deal counsel for Tisco Bank Plc. and LH Bank Plc. as lenders and Gulf 1 Company Limited (a wholly owned subsidiary of Gulf Energy Development Plc.) as borrower on THB1.7 billion hybrid project financing for a multi‑site rooftop solar portfolio across Thailand.
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Asia Development Bank funding SMEs in Thailand
Advising Asian Development Bank on its $150 million facility agreement to Ngern Tid Lor Plc to on lend to women owned SMEs all over Thailand.
