Band 1 – Capital Markets: Derivatives & Structured Products (China: International Firms)
Chambers Greater China Region 2024
Star Individual – Corporate & Finance (Thailand: Expertise Based Abroad)
Chambers Asia-Pacific 2024
“Posit is very personable, extreme legally and commercially competent and one of the best lawyers I have come across.”
Chambers Greater China Region 2024
“He’s extremely practical and commercial, with experience in both the US and in Hong Kong covering multiple practice areas. Posit has a great view of the market and is a pleasure to work with. He’s very familiar with many complicated transaction structures.”
Chambers Greater China Region 2024
“We rate Posit very highly. He is very switched-on and gets what we need.”
Chambers Greater China Region 2024
Leading Individual – Structured Finance and Securitization (Hong Kong)
The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2024
"His relationship with Thai corporates is second to none."
Chambers Asia-Pacific 2023
"Our first port of call for US-related transactions. We've worked with him on large and complex transactions for a long time and the responsiveness and quality of advice is unparalleled."
Chambers Greater China Region 2023
Profile
Posit Laohaphan is the Managing Partner of Latham's Asia offices and the head of the firm’s Structured Equity and Finance Practice in Asia.
Posit advises clients across Asia on a range of investment and financing matters in the public and private markets covering equity-linked capital markets products, private credit, structured equity and finance, and OTC derivatives.
He helps clients on:
Structured capital markets products, such as equity-linked securities
OTC equity derivatives
Structured lending products, such as margin loans
Direct lending and private capital transactions
Structured finance
Workouts and restructuring of financing transactions
General corporate and capital markets transactions
Posit draws on over two decades of experience advising on complex structured cross-border transactions. He began his career in New York in 2004 before moving to Hong Kong in 2010 to build Latham’s structured equity and financing business in APAC. Posit advises clients across different product areas, geographical markets, and client types (both buy-side and sell-side). Given his broad and sophisticated practice he serves as a strategic advisor to clients.
Experience
Posit regularly provides advice on a full range of matters to clients, including:
Apollo
Bank of America
Barclays
BNP Paribas
Carlyle
CICC
Citigroup
DBS Bank
Deutsche Bank
EE Capital
FountainVest
Goldman Sachs
Haitong
Hillhouse Capital
Hong Kong Stock Exchange
HSBC
ICBC
Jane Street
JP Morgan
L Catterton
Macquarie
Melco
Mizuho
Morgan Stanley
MUFG
Natixis
Nomura
Oasis Management
Sun Hung Kai
Santander
Standard Chartered
Tencent
UBS
Qualifications
Bar Qualification
Hong Kong (Solicitor)
New York
Education
Master of Laws (LL.M.), Columbia University School of Law, 2005 Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar
Graduate Diploma in Corporate, Securities and Finance Law, The University of Sydney (Sydney Law School), 2004
Bachelor of Law (Hons), Australian National University, 2001
Bachelor of Commerce in Accounting & Finance, Australian National University, 2000
Latham honored as Global Law Firm of the Year in GlobalCapital’s Global and Americas Derivatives Awards for innovation and significant contributions to the advancement of the derivatives industry.
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