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.

• Hunton’s Bangkok, Tokyo and London offices represented Monsoon Wind Power, the project company of the joint venture between the major sponsors Impact Electrons Siam, ACEN Renewables, BCPG Public Company Limited and Mitsubishi Corporation, in securing a$692 million nonrecourse project financing package from Asian Development Bank, Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, Japan International Cooperation Agency, Export-Import Bank of Thailand, the Hong Kong Mortgage Corporation Limited, Kasikornbank, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation and Siam Commercial Bank to develop, construct, and operate a 600MW wind power project and its dedicated 500kV transmission line in the Sekong and Attapeu provinces in southern Lao P.D.R. with interconnection into Vietnam for power offtake by Vietnam Electricity, Vietnam’s national utility.
• Representing an export credit agency in connection with a financing of an LNG project in Papua New Guinea.
• Represented Kyuden International Corporation in connection with its acquisition of a 40 percent interest in a portfolio of 400MW solar power projects, encompassing a total of 28 solar generation facilities located across California, Idaho, and North Carolina in the United States, including performing legal due diligence, negotiation, and finalization of the Membership Interests Purchase Agreement, Limited Liability Company Agreement, Asset Management Agreement, and other related contracts, and provided assistance through the closing of the transaction.
• Represented BJC International Company Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Berli Jucker, on its acquisition of 75 percent of the total shareholding in I Chi Ban Company Limited, a company engaged in the trading, distribution and manufacture of consumer products in Vietnam.
• Represented export credit agencies and a syndicate of commercial banks in connection with the $14 billion financing of the PNG LNG project in Papua New Guinea.
• Represented a major European lending institution on the construction financing of the 60 MW Battambang solar project in Cambodia using lawyers resident in our London and Bangkok offices.
• Represented Electricity Generating Public Company Limited in an $800 million cross-border acquisition of a 49 percent equity interest in the 1.8 GW Paju LNG-Fired Power Facility in Paju City, South Korea.
• Represented JERA, one of the world's largest energy companies dealing in fuels, and Chubu Electric Power International, third among Japan's largest electric utilities, on the disposition of its 49 percent equity interest in Gunkul Chubu Powergen, a Thai company that owns and operates a portfolio of six solar power projects.
• Representing Electricity Generating Public Company Limited on its re-entry into the Indonesian infrastructure and utility market by way of a strategic investment in newly issued shares worth $194 million and representing a 30 percent ownership interest in PT Chandra Daya Investasi, which is a subsidiary of PT Chandra Asri Petrochemical Tbk (JK: TPIA), Indonesia’s leading chemical company engaging in infrastructure solutions and operating an integrated petrochemical plant.
• Represented 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, a subsidiary of Italian-Thai Development Public Company Limited.
• Represented seven mandated lead arrangers on the $6 billion acquisition financing provided to CP All Public Company Limited for the acquisition of all shareholdings in Siam Makro Public Company Limited, one of Thailand’s largest acquisitions to date.
• Represented Thai Union on one of Thailand’s largest outbound acquisitions of $883 million of MW Brands Holdings.
• Represented Temasek on the $3.6 billion acquisition and subsequent public tender offer of 96 percent of the shares, through its Thai affiliates, in Shin Corporation, which controls Thailand’s largest mobile phone operator Advanced Info Service Public Company Limited, Asia’s third-biggest commercial satellites operator Shin Satellite Public Company Limited, television station operator ITV Public Company Limited, internet service provider CS LoxInfo Public Company Limited, budget airline Thai AirAsia Company Limited, and consumer credit provider Capital OK Company Limited.
• Represented Electricity Generating Public Company Limited, on all aspects of its multimillion dollar, cross-border acquisition of a 25 percent ownership interest in the 640 MW Yunlin Offshore Wind Power Farm, Yunlin County, Taiwan ROC.
• Represented Banpu Infinergy Co., Ltd., a one-stop provider of total solar energy solutions using advanced technology and a subsidiary of Banpu pcl., on its approximately $55.7 million investment in convertible preference shares in the Sunseap Group, the largest clean-energy solutions provider of roof-top solar projects in Singapore with a pipeline of solar ground-mount and roof-top projects and energy storage initiatives underway in Australia, Cambodia, India, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam to reach 300 MW of overall operating capacity.