Chanchanok Poolvoralaks
Senior Associate Bangkok
Chanchanok is a Senior Associate in the Corporate and Projects group.
Her practice focusses on complex cross-border transactions in the energy and infrastructure sectors across Asia, Europe and Africa.
Prior to joining the firm, Chanchanok spent over 10 years at a Magic Circle law firm in London before moving to Bangkok. She has also undertaken secondments with Citigroup in London and SSE Renewables in Glasgow.
Chanchanok holds a BA in Jurisprudence from the University of Oxford, and an LLM from the London School of Economics and Political Science, graduating with Distinction and receiving the Dean’s Medal for the third-highest overall performance on the programme.
She has also passed Level 1 of the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) Programme and holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Professional Legal Practice (LPC) with Distinction. She is qualified to practise in England and Wales and is fluent in English and Thai.
- Advising ECAs and Lenders on the Nacala Corridor and Port project in Mozambique and Malawi, for US$2.7bn financing, sponsored by Vale and Mitsui and the then-largest project financing in sub-Saharan Africa; named by IJGlobal as one of the 10 most significant deals in the last 20 years (2018), PFI Logistics Deal of the Year (Middle East and Africa) (2018), IJGlobal Africa Transport Deal of the Year (2018) and notable mention at the UK-Africa Investment Summit 2020 (attended by 10+ heads of state).
- Advising SSE Renewables on the £3bn development and construction of Seagreen Wind Farm, a 1,500 MW project offshore of Scotland.
- Advising, and secondment as Senior Commercial Lawyer to, SSE Renewables (Glasgow) as part of the Berwick Bank Wind Project, which when built will be one of the largest offshore wind projects in the UK (over 4 GW capacity).
- Advising Lenders on the acquisition financing of Data4 group (data centres in Europe) by Brookfield.
- Advising ExxonMobil on the disposal of its North Sea upstream assets.
- Advising Sponsors on the project financing of a hydropower project in Lao PDR.
- Advising Carlyle in the purchase from Mubadala of a stake in CEPSA, an integrated oil and gas business worth over US$12bn and with assets in over 20 jurisdictions.
- Advising Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in the disposal of its oil and gas portfolio worth over US$600m to PTTEP.
- Advising on the first joint lending by K-SURE and UK Export Finance on the Export Development Guarantee product, for a financing to a Korean-UK manufacturer for monopiles.
- Advising UK Export Finance and Lenders on their first LIBOR-switch financing.
Education
- 2022 · LL.M., The London School of Economics and Political Science
- 2014 · Postgraduate Diploma in Professional Legal Practice, University of Law
- 2014 · BA in Jurisprudence, University of Oxford
