Sithisak Law Office advises on some of Cambodia’s most complex and high-value M&A transactions, guiding clients through every stage from due diligence to regulatory approval and post-transaction compliance. Known for our strategic structuring and regulatory insight, we help investors and corporates achieve seamless and successful acquisitions.

Key Services

• Structuring share and asset acquisitions.
• Conducting legal due diligence across corporate, regulatory compliance, material commercial and financial contract risk, litgation risk, labour, IP, and tax matters.
• Drafting and negotiating share sale and purchase agreements, shareholders’ agreements, joint ventures, and convertible note.
• Advising on merger control.
• Regulatory filings at Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC), Ministry of Commercial (MOC), tax authority, and other relevant regulatory bodies.
• Representing buyers and sellers in cross-border transactions.
• Post-acquisition compliance and integration.

Track Records

• Advised a leading Thai retail conglomerate on its acquisition of a French-based mini-mart chain in Cambodia, including preparing transaction documentations, regulatory filings and branch registration with relevant authorities.
• Represented a prominent Cambodian cinema operator in its merger and acquisition transaction with a Malaysian entertainment group, from deal structuring to post-merger compliance.
• Acted as counsel for a private equity M&A transaction of a factory valued at more than USD 30  million.
• Advised an local investment firm on the acquisition of a 51% equity stake in a leading Internet service provider, including legal due diligence and transaction documentation.
• Guided one of the largest Korean commercial banks in obtaining NBC approval for share acquisition in a major Cambodian microfinance institution, ensuring full regulatory compliance.
• Advised a Thai-based conglomerate on the merger of its Cambodian subsidiaries and its qualified investment project in the agricultural sector.
• Provided cross-border restructuring advice to life and general insurance companies, securing regulatory clearance from the Insurance Regulator of Cambodia (IRC).
• Delivered strategic M&A counsel to operators in the casino, hospitality, and technology sectors on merger transactions and investment entry structures.
• Assisted a softwear and an MFI in structuring and executing equity acquisitions, including the drafting of share purchase and shareholders’ agreements.
• Advised multiple local and foreign investors on deal structuring, shareholding arrangements, and investment vehicles for projects across real estate, finance, and service sectors, and assisted with regulatory liaison before the MOC, CDC, NBC, IRC and relevant regulator.