What were you doing before the MCL?
Before the programme, I practised as a legal advisor for almost four years in an independent firm named Weerawong, Chinnavat and Partners (formerly a Bangkok branch of White & Case). The area of specialisation that I had focussed mostly on was corporate transactions e.g., mergers and acquisitions, foreign direct investment, and capital markets. Further, I had opportunities to get involved in public-private partnership projects, which were about to gain popularity in the jurisdiction.
What were your impressions of the MCL?
The course does not only give a series of legal practicalities, but also theoretical perspectives on corporate transactions. The core subject “Deals Course”, as the main highlight, confers an economic conceptual framework upon students to apply for every sort of transaction in the corporate world. Also, it allows us to challenge how the roles of the transaction lawyers should be, which is not only to raise legal issues but also to bring other aspects to clients (e.g., adding value to transactions). To me, this uniqueness lifts the entire course out of the other ordinary corporate law courses available in the UK. Within the orbit of the Deals, four corporate-related modules provide students with the competence to identify and address certain issues in transactions (e.g., taxation, dispute resolution and competition law). Concomitantly, the inclusion of one LLM paper intensifies the scholarly vigour of the programme.
Moreover, what the MCL offered to me is more than what has been taught, but also precious experience and great opportunities to meet and share opinions with several practitioners and academics from various jurisdictions.
What are your post-MCL plans and have they changed due to taking the MCL?
Apart from resuming work in the same firm, my firm intention is to share all the knowledge and conceptual frameworks, which I have acquired from the programme, for the furtherance of the legal industry in my home jurisdiction.
