With a presence in the Asia-Pacific region since 1994, lawyers in Hunton’s Asia Pacific practice represent financial institutions, multinational corporations, governments, agencies, and investors in transactions and investments within and across national jurisdictions throughout the region, including developed markets such as Singapore, Taiwan, China, Japan, South Korea, and Australia, as well as emerging markets such as Thailand, Cambodia, Myanmar, Lao P.D.R., the Philippines, Vietnam, and Papua New Guinea.

From our offices in Bangkok, Beijing, and Tokyo, reflecting the cross-disciplinary emphasis of the entire firm, our lawyers have a strong corporate, commercial, and finance focus. They are regularly ranked among the world’s top practitioners by respected legal and industry journals such as Chambers Asia-Pacific Guide 2025, Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2025, and The IFLR1000 2025.

With over 40 legal professionals based in the region, we have developed a strong understanding of the local business cultures and legal frameworks in most of the area’s major countries. We have excellent relationships with business leaders, economic groups, government agencies, and other local legal professionals. We also work closely with lawyers across the firm on Asia-Pacific related projects.

We have particularly strong experience in the energy, infrastructure, manufacturing, technology, telecommunications, banking, and finance industries. For example, our work on the Monsoon Wind Power project, the largest wind power plant in Southeast Asia, and the first in the Lao P.D.R,, was recognized for Wind Deal of the Year as part of the Asia-Pacific Awards in the 2024 Project Finance International (PFI) Yearbook.

While our focus is primarily on inbound investments in the region, we also assist clients with strategic outbound investments to the United States, Europe, and the Middle East, relying on Hunton’s global office network for support. Most recently, some of our United States and Tokyo based team members represented Kyuden International Corporation in connection with its acquisition of a 40 percent interest in a portfolio of solar power projects, encompassing a total of 28 solar generation facilities located across California, Idaho, and North Carolina in the United States. This matter is significant as it marks Kyuden Group’s first investment in renewable energy within the United States.

• Represented Thailand’s largest coal miner in its $669 million divestment to China Resources Power Holdings Ltd.
• Represented Power Partners Ltd. in the $1 billion financing of the 600 MW GNPower Marivelas Coal Plant Project in the Philippines, awarded ‘Deal of the Year’ by Asian-Counsel, China Business Law Journal, China Law & Practice, International Financial Law Review, and Project Finance International.
• Represented Thai Union Frozen Products in its acquisition of France’s MWBrands for $883 million, awarded ‘Best Thailand Deal in 2010’ by FinanceAsia magazine.
• Represented Natural Energy Development Company in its development and financing of a $250 million 73 MW solar farm in Thailand, one of the largest in the world.
• Represented Reliance Power Ltd. in its development and financing of the $4.2 billion 4,000 MW Sasan power project in India, awarded ‘Project Deal of the Year’ 2009 by Euromoney’s Project Finance magazine.
• Represented the sellers in the sale of shares totaling 95 percent of Bangkok Mass Transit System PCL, the operator of Bangkok’s elevated train system, to property developer Tanayong plc in a cash and share transaction valued at Baht 40 billion.
• Represented Thai National Power, a subsidiary of UK-listed International Power pcl, in the Baht 5 billion project development and financing of a new 110 MW gas-fired cogeneration project in Thailand.
• Represented CLP Holdings, Hong Kong’s largest electric utility company, in the sale of 13.36 percent interest in Thailand-based Electricity Generating Public Company to a wholly owned subsidiary of Mitsubishi Corporation for $273 million.
• Represented PTT Asahi Chemical Co. in a $400 million debt financing for the development of a 200,000 ton-per-year acryline nitrate and 70,000 ton-per-year methyl methacrylate plant in Thailand, awarded ‘Asia-Pacific Petrochemicals Deal of the Year’ 2008 by Euromoney’s Project Finance magazine.
• Represented Berli Jucker International Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of SET-listed Berli Jucker Public Company Limited, in the acquisition of a Vietnamese logistics company.
• Represented Singapore Telecommunications in its investment in and acquisition of a stake in the Bharti group of companies, which stands as one of SingTel’s largest overseas investments and as one of the largest foreign investments in the Indian telecommunications sector.
• Represented the Industrial Development Bank of India in its offering of $500 million floating rate notes under Regulation S.