Rawhiphutsagorn (Mint) Chaiphairojn

Rawhiphutsagorn is an Associate at PDLegal Thailand, where she focuses on Thai and international taxation, private clients and wealth management. She assists individuals, families and businesses on tax planning, cross-border wealth structuring, succession and estate planning, and the tax aspects of corporate and commercial matters, including mergers and acquisitions, capital markets transactions and cross-border investment.

Rawhiphutsagorn holds a Master of Laws in Taxation (Honours) from Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law and a Master of Laws from the University of Bristol. She obtained her Bachelor of Laws with Second Class Honours from Chulalongkorn University.

Before joining the firm, Rawhiphutsagorn gained experience at a leading Thai law firm, where she carried out legal research on mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, public-private partnerships and litigation. She also researched Thailand’s regulatory framework for digital assets and compared it with approaches in foreign jurisdictions, an area of growing relevance to tax planning and to how private clients hold and manage their wealth.

Her broader experience includes reviewing commercial agreements, translating legal documents for international arbitration proceedings, and contributing to research on privacy and personal data protection laws in Asia for an academic publication.

During her undergraduate studies, she participated in the 29th and 30th Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot competitions, representing Chulalongkorn University, including as an oralist at the international rounds in Vienna, Austria.