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

P&A Asia

House No. 176 Z, Street 370
Phnom Penh
Cambodia

+855 23 223391

www.paasia.net/en

Contact Alessio Polastri

Law Firm Overview

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

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

Our aim is to provide our clients with cost efficient and effective 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; Mandarin; English.

Areas of Law

Areas of Law Description

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

- Finance

Our banking practice and banking consultants are among the best banking practices in Cambodia and overseas. We have handled several transactions involving leading corporations and primary financial institutions as well as matters for our exceptional base of financial sponsor and other corporate relationship.

*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
Our broad experience advising the full range of market participants means that we are able to anticipate, and importantly to understand, issues and problems that may arise during the course of a project and find constructive solutions to them. The project finance group advises on PPP/PFI, project financings and developments in all sectors.

*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.

- Tax

At P&A Asia, we have experience of advising on the broad spectrum of financing, investment, corporate, and real estate transactions, as well as tax litigation, disputes and transfer pricing. We merge innovative tax structuring expertise with the greatest quality advisory skill to give our clients a comprehensive tax service.

- Real Estate

Our real estate group is closely linked to the specialist expertise provided by our finance, tax, and corporate advisors, areas that are often integral to the structuring of major real estate projects. We also assist local and international clients in obtaining concession and construction permits from the Governments and any other relevant authority in Cambodia, Myanmar and Seychelles.

- Corporate

Our lawyers are leaders in acquisitions, mergers, spin-offs, divestitures, proxy contests and joint ventures. We regularly advise local and foreign clients on a broad range of corporate and private equity transactions. Our private equity practice includes all aspects of transactional work, including representing private equity funds in the purchase and sale of their portfolio assets.

* 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, intellectual property, restrictive practices, liberalization, licensing and distribution, state aid, compliance programs, public procurement and trade, including World Trade Organization matters.

*Corporate, Joint Venture & M&A
We represent many of the world's leading international and local 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.

* Private Equity
Our private equity lawyers 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.

* 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.