What Clients Have Observed During Their Engagements

We came to Bodhi Counsel after a Thai law firm had given us conflicting advice on whether our distribution activity required a foreign business licence. The eligibility mapping note we received was clear and referenced the relevant annexes directly. It gave us what we needed to proceed with confidence. The fee was modest for the certainty it provided.

The application drafting engagement was thorough. The business plan Bodhi Counsel prepared was tailored to what the Ministry actually looks for — not a generic document. There were two rounds of committee queries, both handled promptly and without additional cost. The process took longer than we had hoped, but that was a regulatory matter, not a problem with the practice.

We engaged Bodhi Counsel for the combined FBL and BOI package for our technology services subsidiary. The coordination between the two applications was handled well — the same activity description was used consistently across both, which avoided the inconsistencies we had seen cause problems in previous attempts with a different firm. The closing memorandum was particularly useful for our Tokyo board.

What distinguished the practice from others we spoke to was the willingness to say when something was uncertain. The eligibility note acknowledged areas where administrative interpretation had been inconsistent and described those areas plainly. That honesty made the advice more useful, not less.

Our company had been operating in Thailand under a structure that was later identified as requiring a licence we did not hold. Bodhi Counsel advised on the regularisation pathway and prepared the application for the existing entity. The fixed fee approach worked well for us — we knew the cost before we started and there were no surprises.

Reliable and straightforward to work with. The documentation package was well prepared. My one observation is that communication between the submission and the committee decision was slightly less frequent than I would have liked — though every query I raised was answered substantively and promptly.