Kris R. Leevongcharoen

Kris is an associate in the energy and infrastructure team in the Bangkok office.

Kris focuses his practice on the development and financing of energy and infrastructure projects, international acquisitions, investments, joint ventures, and other cross-border commercial transactions in Thailand and the Asia-Pacific region.

Prior to joining Hunton Andrews Kurth, Kris was an associate in the mergers and acquisitions tax team at a “Big Four” accounting firm in New York, where he advised various private equity clients on deal tax structuring and tax due diligence.

• Acting in a continuing role as project counsel since 2013 to San Buenaventura Power Ltd. Co., a joint venture between power generator subsidiary of Meralco, the largest distribution utility in the Philippines and Thailand’s EGCO, in project works SBPL’s 500 MW first-of-its-kind-in-the-Philippines supercritical coal-fired power plant situated in Mauban, Quezon.
• Represented Electricity Generating Public Co., Ltd.  as counsel in connection with the multi-million-dollar divestment of its 49 percent stake in RISEC Holdings, LLC (RISEC), the parent company to an entity that holds a 609 MW natural gas fire combined-cycle power plant in the state of Rhode Island, to Shell Energy North America (US), LP (SENA).
• Acted as local counsel to SDIC Mining on the acquisition of a controlling interest in a large potash mine in northern Thailand in Udon Thani Province, with the mining rights granted to Asia Pacific Potash Corporation (“APPC”), a subsidiary of Italian-Thai Development Public Company Limited (“ITD”). The stake sale is being run through a competitive bidding managed by APPC.
• Acted as US and Thai acquisition counsel to Electricity Generating Public Co., Ltd.  on its acquisition of a 50 percent membership interest in US-based Compass portfolio consisting of three operating gas-fired combined-cycle gas turbine electricity generation facilities in northeastern United States with a total combined capacity of 1,325 MW.
• Project and financing counsel to sponsors and a developer for the continuing development and financing of a major logistics dry port and connecting railway between Lao and Vietnam.
• Acquisition and financing counsel to a major Philippine energy firm in connection with the acquisition of a 49% equity interest in a top five renewable energy portfolio in Vietnam.
• Acquisition counsel to one of Thailand’s largest independent energy developers in connection with the acquisition of a 50% equity interest in a US portfolio of natural gas-fired cogeneration power plants with a total combined capacity of 1,325 MW.
• Project and financing counsel to a multi-national group of sponsors in a 600 MW cross border wind facility in Lao and Vietnam.