Tilleke & Gibbins

Corporate and Commercial Department

Partner and Head of Tilleke & Gibbins' Energy Practice Practice Areas: Energy, Banking and Finance, Corporate/M&A

Supasit Boonsanong is a partner in Tilleke & Gibbins’ corporate and commercial department and head of the firm’s regional energy industry team. He specializes in complex cross-border energy industry transactions, including project finance and mergers and acquisitions, and oil, gas, and petrochemical industry operations. He regularly advises leading energy and natural resource companies on projects, joint ventures, licensing, supply, construction, and financing agreements. He also specializes in negotiating engineering, procurement and construction contracts (EPCs) for process plants, conventional power plants, tank farms, and renewable energy installations (solar, wind, biomass, and waste conversion).

Supasit is chief of the legal team advising Thai government authorities on legislative amendments to the country’s petroleum laws, including drafting regulations, models of petroleum production sharing contracts, and risk service contracts under the Petroleum Act. He is widely recognized for his expertise in energy law and has been ranked by Chambers Asia-Pacific for Projects & Energy. He also teaches petroleum law and investment law at the Faculty of Law, Chulalongkorn University.

Supasit has over 18 years of experience at respected international law firms in Bangkok, and over 15 years as general counsel to Thailand’s National Petrochemical Company.

Thai, English

LLM, Center for Petroleum Law and Mineral Studies, University of Dundee, U.K.

LLB, Chulalongkorn University