Client Experiences
What producers, studios, and labels say about working with us
A selection of reflections from clients who have engaged Aroon Partners for production contracts, co-production documentation, and ongoing legal counsel.
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Client Reviews
From the people we have worked with
Panya Thongsuk
Independent Producer, Bangkok
I came to Aroon Partners for the contract set on a short film with five performers and location shoots across three provinces. The documents came back clean, in both languages, and the music licensing forms were more thorough than anything I'd used before. The timeline was fourteen working days, which fit the production schedule with room to spare.
April 2025
Siriporn Wattanaporn
Label Manager, Chiang Mai
We moved a portion of our catalogue into a licensing arrangement with a Singapore distributor, and the co-production documentation engagement was where we understood what proper territorial coverage actually looks like. The closing memorandum was something I hadn't encountered before — it's become the reference document for that arrangement internally.
March 2025
Kasem Ruengwit
Studio Director, Bangkok
We've been on the Studio and Label Counsel Programme for two programme periods now. The quarterly updates are useful — they've surfaced a few agreements that needed updating before they became problems. The response time for day-to-day queries is consistently one day or less.
April 2025
Nattaya Phakdee
Digital Producer, Bangkok
I was sceptical about the fixed fee at first — I'd assumed entertainment law would involve unpredictable billing. In practice, the scope was exactly what was stated, the documents were delivered on time, and there were no additional charges. For a first production I was doing largely on my own, that predictability was what I needed.
April 2025
Thanat Charoenwong
Music Publisher, Bangkok
We had a performing rights issue with older catalogue that had been licensed without adequate documentation. Aroon Partners helped us reconstruct the licensing chain and put the necessary agreements in place before the catalogue was included in a streaming deal. I wouldn't have known where to start on my own.
March 2025
Amara Lertprasert
Film Director, Bangkok
The parallel Thai–English contract set was what made this work for our feature. Three of our lead performers were Thai-speaking only and needed to read what they were signing. The bilingual drafting wasn't an add-on — it was built into the process, and the Thai text read naturally rather than like a translation.
April 2025
Case Studies
Three engagements in detail
Contract Drafting Engagement
Production contracts for a digital series
Challenge
An independent producer had a six-episode digital series in pre-production with eight performers and three original music tracks. Existing template contracts from a previous project did not address performers' rights under the B.E. 2558 Act or the specific licensing requirements of the streaming platform they were targeting.
Approach
Aroon Partners reviewed the streaming platform's clearance requirements, drafted a full performer agreement set addressing both copyright and performers' rights, and prepared synchronisation licences for each music track. Documents were delivered in bilingual Thai–English format within eleven working days.
Result
The producer passed the platform's legal clearance process without a single request for further documentation — the first time this had happened on one of their productions. The contract set is now used as a template for subsequent series in the same production slate.
"Having documents that the platform's legal team accepted without further questions was worth more than the fee many times over."
Co-Production Documentation
Thai–South Korean documentary co-production
Challenge
A Bangkok production company had reached a commercial agreement in principle with a Seoul-based documentary studio on a 90-minute feature. The two parties had agreed on revenue split but had not addressed rights allocation, territorial coverage, or audit procedures in any binding form.
Approach
Aroon Partners attended two negotiation sessions — one in Bangkok, one by video — and prepared the co-production agreement covering rights ownership, revenue mechanics, accounting procedures, and audit rights. Coordination with the Seoul studio's Thai-registered counsel addressed the governing law and dispute resolution provisions.
Result
The co-production agreement was signed within thirty-two days of the first session, and the closing memorandum provided both parties with a clear reference to the agreed commercial terms. The documentary entered production on schedule and completed a festival circuit covering six countries.
"The closing memorandum became our internal bible for the project — the rights allocation section in particular saved us several conversations later."
Studio Counsel Programme
Ongoing counsel for an independent music label
Challenge
A Bangkok-based independent music label had grown to fourteen signed artists and a catalogue of over two hundred recordings. Legal work was being handled on an ad hoc basis through several different practitioners, producing inconsistent contract standards and an unclear licensing chain for older recordings.
Approach
The Studio and Label Counsel Programme was introduced to cover all new talent agreements, publishing arrangements, and licensing negotiations. An initial catalogue audit was conducted to identify and address gaps in the existing licensing chain. Quarterly reviews have since covered the label's expansion into Malaysia and Vietnam distribution.
Result
After eighteen months on the programme, the label's contract standards are consistent across all artists, the catalogue licensing chain is fully documented, and the label passed a due diligence review by a regional streaming platform without requiring any supplementary legal work.
"We hadn't realised how much inconsistency had accumulated in our contracts until the programme flagged it. The quarterly review process is something we now treat as a standard operating procedure."
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