Edward is a corporate and commercial lawyer with expertise in issues affecting a broad range of industries. He combines over twenty years of experience in Thailand working at Deacons (now known as PriceSanond), DLA Piper and in private practice together with US qualifications to provide workable, legal solutions that create long-term value for businesses and investors.
Edward has performed substantial legal work for mostly large businesses including Enron, Shell, Dana, Toyota, AstraZeneca, Lilly, Microban, P.T. Teknix Capital, FedEx, Itochu, Sumitomo, Tokio Marine & Fire Insurance, J.W. Marriott, Club Med, Tony Roma’s, Standard Chartered Bank, SGS, Telecomm Asia and subsequently True. He also completed major projects for various governments, and the international banks such as ADB and the World Bank.
He obtained his Bachelor of Science degree – completing an honors biology/premed curriculum – from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He went on to complete his Master of Regional Planning degree from Cornell University, his Juris Doctorate from Washington University in St. Louis, a top-tier US law school, and his Executive Master of Business Administration with Beta Gamma Sigma honors from the Sasin Graduate Institute of Business Administration of Chulalongkorn University. Edward also attended law school at Temple University (US), University College London (UK), and business school at the Kellogg School of Management of Northwestern University. At Cornell, he served as an Articles Editor for Colloqui: Cornell Journal of Planning and Urban Issues, and as an Associate of the Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy. At Temple Law, a school renowned for its trial advocacy and legal writing programs, he competed in the I. Herman Stern Moot Court Competition, and won a coveted spot on the Temple Political and Civil Rights Law Review.
Edward is licensed to practice law in New York and before the US Court of International Trade, US Court of Federal Claims, US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, the US Tax Court and the US Supreme Court.
He is also a Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (UK & Thailand Association) and Mensa International. Formerly, he served as a consultant and contributor to the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Lawyers Council of Thailand. There, he co-published over 120 short articles namely describing Anglo-American common law, and even Sharia law, and sometimes offering comparisons with Thai civil law.
