About

Formerly a partner with White & Case and head of capital markets and M&A with Weerawong, Chinnavat & Partners (the former Bangkok office of White & Case), Peangpanor Boonklum moved on from her extremely successful private practice career in July 2017 when she first took on a role with PTT Public Company. Now group general counsel, when reflecting on the personal qualities that have allowed her such a high degree of success throughout her career, Boonklum lists a number of possible contributing factors: ‘I have a strong commitment and dedication to all I do, and my motto is “put your heart into it!“; I have always looked to developing myself, which I believe is now called growth mindset; and I constantly remind myself there is much that I don’t know, and thus I try to be humble and not arrogant, which has helped me to keep learning’. She has been extremely busy in terms of the individual projects she has been a part of as well, and goes through just a few of these: ‘As well as defending a lawsuit initiated by the Ministry of Environment and Forestry of the Republic of Indonesia (the Ministry) against the company which was withdrawn in March 2018 and the acquisition of a 9.5 % shares in IRPC, a refining company within PTT Group, from the Government Savings Bank, in February 2018, I have lately been involved in the proposed acquisition by Global Power Synergy (GPSC), a power flagship company of PTT, of 69% shares in a listed power company Glow, from Engie, and will follow by a tender offer of all shares. The transaction is over US$3bn’.