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Legal Contract Translation — ISO 17100 + Term Lock

Thai-English legal-contract translation by specialist legal translators running an ISO 17100 workflow with terminology lock, 4-eyes review, and legal-reviewer pass before release.

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TH→EN rate: THB 1.80/wd
EN→TH rate: THB 1.50/wd
Throughput: 3,000 wd/day
QA: 4-eyes + legal

Quick answer

Legal-contract translation from THB 1.80/source word (TH→EN) and THB 1.50/word (EN→TH), covering Master Services, Share Purchase, Joint Venture, Employment, NDA, and Licence Agreements. Every file runs through terminology lock against Black's Law Dictionary + the Thai Civil and Commercial Code, plus 4-eyes review by translator + legal reviewer.

ISO 17100:2015 workflow

The standard requires translation → bilingual revision → monolingual review → proofreading by different personnel. NYC has held ISO 17100 certification since 2021 with annual surveillance audits.

Terminology consistency

Legal contracts do not tolerate synonym drift — 'ผู้ให้บริการ' must always render as 'Service Provider' throughout, not oscillating with 'Provider' or 'Supplier'. NYC uses Trados MultiTerm hard-lock to block accidental drift by editors.

Bilingual table format

Delivered as a two-column table (Thai-English) clause-by-clause with cross-references, so counsel for both sides can align text word-for-word and track changes cleanly.

Choice-of-law clauses

Beware of 'governed by the laws of Thailand' vs 'without regard to conflicts of law principles' — NYC keeps eight master templates for choice-of-law and jurisdiction used in TH-SG-HK-UK-US cross-border deals.

Arbitration clauses

Institution names must render exactly — TAI (Thai Arbitration Institute), THAC (Thai Arbitration Center), SIAC, ICC, HKIAC. 'Binding' translates to 'ให้มีผลผูกพัน', not 'มีผลบังคับ' (which means enforceable, a different concept).

How it works

1. Scope + term sheet
Word count, contract type, destination legal system (common vs civil law) confirmed on a term sheet with price and deadline.
2. Terminology lock
Project glossary built against Black's Law, the Thai CCC, and NYC's 15-year legal term bank.
3. Translate + revise
Legal translators work in Trados/Phrase; editors verify term consistency, party names, numbers, and cross-references.
4. Legal review
Thai counsel or foreign counsel reviews for alignment with destination law (CCC / UCC / SGA / Companies Act).
5. Certification + delivery
Translator's affidavit, firm seal, MFA-registered signature — delivered as scanned PDF plus bilingual Word table.

FAQ

Do Thai courts accept the translation?

CCPC §46 requires Thai translation of foreign-language documents; certified translations by MFA-registered translators are accepted by courts and arbitral tribunals.

How is per-word pricing counted?

We count source words with a CAT tool so the quotation is fixed before work starts rather than after delivery. Segments that match the existing translation memory are billed at fifty percent, which meaningfully lowers the effective rate on large document sets with repeated boilerplate.

Rush pricing?

Volumes above 3,000 words per day carry a 30% rush surcharge, and overnight turnaround carries 50%, because two or more linguists and a reviewer must work in parallel. The deadline and any surcharge are confirmed in writing before we begin, so there are no surprises on delivery.

Confidentiality?

Every translator and reviewer signs a non-disclosure agreement before receiving files, storage follows ISO 27001 access-control practice, and source files are purged ninety days after delivery. If your matter requires it, we can delete the working files immediately on hand-over instead.

Do you use AI translation?

Neural MT (DeepL Pro / GPT) is used as a first draft for the legal reviewer, but the final version always goes through a legal translator + editor. Raw MT is never delivered.

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