Thai law firm Chandler MHM has hired corporate lawyer Arkrapol Pichedvanichok as a senior partner and co-head of its mergers and acquisitions practice. Akrapol was a partner at Allen & Overy's Bangkok office until 2015.

Allen & Overy has advised Laos’ Phonesack Group and Thailand’s Electricity Generating Public Company Limited (EGCO) in the $1 billion Nam Theun 1 hydroelectric power project.

Chandler MHM has hired four lawyers from Clifford Chance’s Bangkok office including partner Joseph Tisuthiwongse, months after the UK firm announced it would be ceasing its Thai operations.