Corporate, Banking & Finance and Real Estate Law Firm in Phnom Penh, Cambodia

P&A Asia

No. 7, Street 222
Phnom Penh
Cambodia

+855 23 223391

www.paasia.net/en

Contact Alessio Polastri

Law Firm Overview

P&A Asia is an independent law firm with international contacts. Our lawyers have international experience gained from leading international law firms. We are dedicated to providing our clients with value-added legal services across all our practice areas, with a special focus on corporate, banking & finance and real estate.

We understand the needs of investors, financiers and other key stakeholders in large scale projects. With our local know-how and relationships, transactional capability and broad-ranging skills in finance, corporate, tax, real estate and TMT, we can deliver integrated cross-border legal services.

Our goal is to provide our clients with commercially effective and cost-efficient solutions at every stage of a commercial transaction. In this regard, we place great importance in ensuring that our clients are aware of the legal variables affecting their commercial decisions.

Year this Office was Established: 2011

Languages: Bahasa; French; Italian; Khmer; Malay; Mandarin; Spanish; Thai; Vietnamese; English.

Practice Areas

Additional Practice Areas: Mining; Property Finance.

Practice Areas Description

P&A Asia provides legal services on the following areas of practice:

- Finance

Our banking practice is among the best banking practices in the Kingdom of Cambodia. Our banking practice and our banking consultants have handled, in Cambodia and overseas, several transactions involving primary financial institutions and leading corporations as well as matters for our exceptional base of financial sponsor and other corporate relationship. Particular areas of emphasis include leveraged finance, acquisition finance, project finance, financial institution lending, media and telecommunications financing.

* Banking & Finance

Arranging banks, lenders, micro-finance institutions, sponsors and borrowers rely on our outstanding track record in cross-border financing across every industry, including commercial, financial and governmental sectors. Bank lending, from straightforward bilateral facilities agreements to complex syndicated structured financings, and regulatory advices are other key elements of the firm’s banking & finance department.

* Project Finance & Infrastructure

The infrastructure group is committed to helping you keep pace with market and regulatory developments as well as enabling you to enter new markets, protect your interests, manage risk and strengthen your business. With our detailed understanding of the commercial environment in which our clients operate we are ideally placed to help our clients achieve their aims. We are a multi-disciplinary group of highly-experienced lawyers who provide innovative legal advice, including expertise in construction, environment, PFI/PPP, project finance and tax.

* Mining / Oil & Gas

The natural resources group comprises consultants with outstanding experience accrued in international law firms. They advise a broad range of companies in the mining, energy and oil & gas sector including major mining and metals companies, junior mining companies, development banks, oil companies, multinationals, international financial institutions, commercial banks, contractors and governments across the full range of issues that apply to the sector.

- Corporate

We are a leader in mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, spin-offs, proxy contests and joint ventures. We regularly advise foreign and local clients on a wide range of corporate and private equity transactions. Our work involves the representation of M&A participants in virtually all capacities — purchasers, sellers, lenders and financial advisors, and our clients include foreign and local business enterprises, merchant banking and investment banking firms, boards of directors and special board committees. We bring our broad range of experience in mergers and acquisitions and banking & finance transactions to bear in our work for private equity clients.

* Capital Markets

When it comes to an equity offering or an equity-linked offering, a legal advisory team needs to be able to combine securities law expertise with industry sector and practice-specific advice. Whether it's a domestic or international offering, we have the necessary knowledge and experience of working in multi-disciplinary teams and can draw on tax, corporate, finance, calling on the experience of our sector teams.

* Commercial, IP & Trade

Our clients are companies across the full spectrum of industrial, commercial and service sectors, financial institutions, governments and governmental organizations. We advise them on a complete range of competition, regulatory and trade issues, including merger control, licensing and distribution, intellectual property, restrictive practices, compliance programs, state aid, liberalization, public procurement and trade, including World Trade Organization matters.

* Corporate, Joint Venture & M&A

We represent many of the world's leading international and Cambodia corporations, financial institutions and sponsors on the largest and most innovative transactions across the globe, with a strong focus in South East Asia – from takeovers, mergers and cross border acquisitions to strategic alliances, joint ventures, outsourcings and restructurings. Our ability to operate locally for our Cambodian clients or to assist overseas clients in Cambodia is greatly assisted by the depth of our sector expertise and knowledge, which enables us deliver relevant expertise across Asia and across all industries, with a deep understanding of the issues and challenges facing our clients.

* Private Equity

Our private equity consultants advise clients at all stages, from establishing the commercial vehicles and making investments, to ongoing portfolio assistance including restructuring advice, to exiting from those investments. Clients benefit from market-leading funds, corporate M&A, restructuring and finance experts and their understanding of fund-raising, fund structuring, buyout and restructuring market. We help clients structure the best investment methods for them, from helping sponsors position themselves to ensure they are the lead equity sponsor when looking at investing to clubbing together to compete for distressed assets.

- Technology, Media and Telecoms

In the rapidly changing telecommunications industry, our consultants employ a multidisciplinary approach to tackling the broad range of issues that face our clients. In addition, leading global customers and suppliers depend on the commercial and innovative advice of our team of specialist Technology, Media and Telecommunications (TMT) advisors. Our TMT team has an in-depth understanding of the sector and brings the right mix of industry knowledge and experience of TMT transactions. We invest time to understand our clients’ strategic objectives, offering relevant and practical advice. Our TMT practice deals with all aspects of major commercial contracts in the TMT industry. The team helps clients to achieve their commercial aims and also to develop strategies and programs for managing any kind of risk.

- Tax

At P&A Asia, we have experience of advising on the full spectrum of corporate, financing, investment and real estate transactions, as well as tax litigation, disputes and transfer pricing.

- Real Estate

Buying and selling real estate for investment purposes has become more complex and is often structured in a complex fashion, featuring cross-border elements. Leading global investors, developers, occupiers and financial institutions with major space requirements choose us to advise on their largest and most complex real estate transactions and disputes. As well as mainstream real estate work, we advise on opportunities for tax efficiency, complex investment structures, property finance, innovative financing methods, the impact of environmental issues, construction and planning aspects, and corporate structures.