Member Profile

Weerayuth Sajjaphanroj is a well versed corporate litigator, having built up a sterling reputation for his expertise in more than 20 years of practicing law. He specialises in conducting litigation proceedings with a particular focus in the fields of IT, IP, telecommunications & media, banking and labour laws. Throughout his prolific professional career, he has advocated frequently on contentious bankruptcy and business reorganisation issues, as well as assisting on debt restructuring agreements and banking & finance casework. Furthermore, Weerayuth Sajjaphanroj advised a leading national mobile telecommunications operator in the matter of the controversial auction process to allocate 3G frequency bands. In a more recent matter, Weerayuth represented a renowned broadcasting company in Bangkok in adequately protecting their rights.

Weerayuth Sajjaphanroj joined the Intellectual Property Practice Group of SCL Law Group (formerly known as Chavalit Law Group) as a senior litigator in 2005 and became partner in 2008. Previously, from 2000 to 2005, he was a senior associate with the Litigation & Arbitration Department of International Legal Counsellors Thailand Ltd. (ILCT) (Russin & Vecchi). He attained his expert knowledge in banking & finance prior to this, during the five years he was employed with Bangkok Bank as their in-house legal counsel, and whilst he was with the Comptroller General's Department, Ministry of Finance, between the years 1988 to 1993.

• 2004: Certificate, Intellectual Property Law, New York University, New York, USA

• 2004: LLM, Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand

• 1985: LLB, Ramkamhaeng University, Bangkok, Thailand

• Speaker on the topic of “Intellectual Property Litigation” at training sessions organised by Thammasat University

• Regular contributing articles published in Ban Muang Newspaper’s column, entitled “Laws and News”

• Part-time lecturer at the Law Faculty of Bangkok University

• Thammasat Law Association

• Intellectual Property Association of Thailand (IPAT)

• The Law Association for Asia and the Western Pacific (LAWASIA)

• Speaker on “Banking Laws” at training sessions for bank officials, organised by Bangkok Bank

• Speaker at the seminar on “Court Proceedings by Digital Means”, hosted by the Central Intellectual Property and International Trade Court

• Speaker at the seminar on “How to Proceed in Copyright Infringement Cases”, organised by the Thai Arbitration Institute