Successfully advising the prince

A German firm, DLA Piper, has a press release claiming to have ” has successfully advised Maha Vajiralongkorn, the Crown Prince of Thailand, in a dispute on the seizure of his aircraft before the Regional Court of Landshut (Germany). By decision of 20 July 2011, the court revoked the seizure of the Crown Prince’s Boeing 737-400, which had been carried out on the Airport of Munich on 11 July 2011, against a security of € 20 mio until the final decision.”

There seems to be an interesting definition of “successfully advised.” PPT understood from Thai media reports that the prince had advised against paying any amount as “security.” Does this mean the Thai government has indeed forked out the loot? Or is it just law firm hubris?

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