Stephen Bennett

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Resident in Thailand since 1994, Stephen is head of the Asia Corporate Team at Hunton Andrews Kurth. He has more than 25 years of practice experience in Thailand in mergers and acquisitions, finance, fintech, foreign investment, and telecommunications, and has completed some of the largest M&A transactions in Thailand. Before joining Hunton Andrews Kurth, Stephen was a partner of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer.

In the last 12 months, he has represented International Finance Corporation (“IFC”) as sole subscriber to US$150 million of green and blue bonds (Thailand’s first blue bond issue) by TMBThanachart Bank; advised IFC with its investment in US$400 million of green and blue bonds by Bank of Ayudhya; advised IFC and DEG as subscribers for $150 million of green bonds to be issued by BGrimm Power; advised IFC on its US$105 million loan to Thai Credit Retail Bank for lending to MSMEs; represented China Mobile International as a major shareholder of True Corporation on its merger with Total Access Communication, which is the largest telco merger in Southeast Asia by combined enterprise value; represented JPMorgan Securities on its derivative warrant program; advised TikTok on its monetization features and advised UBS and Credit Suisse on their Thai integration.