Supasit Boonsanong

Supasit Boonsanong is a partner in Tilleke & Gibbins’ corporate and commercial department and head of the firm’s regional energy industry team. He specialises 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 recognised for his expertise in energy law and has been ranked by Chambers Asia-Pacific for Projects & Energy and IFLR1000 for Project Development and Corporate/M&A. He also teaches petroleum law and investment law at the Faculty of Law, Chulalongkorn University.

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