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LLM in Land Law & Patrimony Law from JEAN MOULIN LYON 3, France

Areas of Practice: Real Estate, Construction, Corporate, Family, Succession

Tel: (+855) 12 92 70 72 / 96 666 1110        E-mail: kimsour@sky-law.asia

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LLM in Business Law and Insurance Law from JEAN MOULIN LYON 3, France

Areas of Practice: Real Estate, Corporate & Banking, Family, Succession

Tel: (+855) 12 30 91 15 / 16 975 222        E-mail: sengthai@sky-law.asia

Sengthai is a founder and senior legal advisor to SKY & ASSOCIATES. He has extensive experience in advising local and international clients in various sectors such as real estate development and management, construction, sale-purchase, hypothec, lease, land due diligence, family, succession, business and taxation.

Sengthai’s experiences as legal practitioner started from 2011 with well-known local firms. He has efficiently assisted local and international businesses to successfully cope with legal milestones via continuous comprehensive legal advisory for their general corporate affairs and specific business objectives, especially real estate project and legal due diligence processes for ad hoc projects including but not limited to M&A, finance and banking licensing, etc. His remarkable international exposures include his intensive work with SCP DELESALLE, DEPONDT, ARSEGUEL-MEUNIER, GALLIEZ, DELESALLE, Notaires Associés, a reputational notary firm in Paris whereby he has acquired tremendous experience and knowledge from well-known French notaries. Additionally, he lectures private law at Cambodian universities including the Royal University of Law and Economics.

Sengthai graduated from the Royal University of Law and Economics in 2009, majoring private law and LLM in Business Law and Insurance Law from prestigious University namely JEAN MOULIN LYON 3, France with remarkably excellent result – being the top score student. He has also been amongst the most pioneer notary public in Cambodia who have been exposed with remarkable successes to strict examination before and after the training of excellence, under the Royal Academies of Judicial Professions.

He proficiently speaks Khmer, English and French.

LLM in Property Law from JEAN MOULIN LYON 3, France

Areas of Practice: Real Estate, Labor, Project Finance & Tax

Tel: (+855) 61 886 886 / 15 886 886         Email: manou@sky-law.asia

Manou is a founder and senior legal advisor to SKY & ASSOCIATES. He has more than 10 years’ work experiences in corporates, securities, taxation and real estate. His experiences include advising clients on a broad spectrum of family, corporate, labor, real estate, land transaction, construction, co-owned buildings, anti-money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism, finance and banking and securities.

Prior to joining SKY & ASSOCIATES, Manou has worked not only with several well-known local law firms and international securities firms, but also with state agencies of the Royal Government of Cambodia, including the Ministry of Economy and Finance and the Securities and Exchange Commission of Cambodia (SECC). With this crossed-sectors experiences as above mentioned, Manou is a well-rounded and acknowledgeable legal professional on legal compliance matters, both from public authorities and corporate perspectives, of companies, detailed prudent rules applicable to bank, financial institutions and non-bank financial institutions such as institutional fund and other players in securities market.

Manou graduated from the Royal University of Law and Economics in 2008, majoring private law and LLM in Land Law and Patrimony law from JEAN MOULIN LYON 3, France. He has also been accredited by the Securities and Exchanges Commission of Cambodia (SECC) to advise on securities laws and regulations.

He proficiently speaks Khmer, English and French.

LLM in Public Law from Lumière LYON 2 University, France

Areas of Practice: Corporate, Securities, Contract, SME Compliance, Real Estate, Taxation

Tel: (+855) 12 611 474 / 16 745 786 E-mail: prapey@sky-law.asia

Sokprapey’s career as legal practitioner has started from 2011. He has been well immersed in the drafting of commercial contract and other types of contract in general, including without limitation to business cooperation agreement, shareholder agreement, share transfer agreement, construction agreement, etc. He also has extensive experience in compliance checking and advisory for business and taxation matters. Furthermore, he has experiences in legal due diligence for more specific process of M&A and IPO. He has also been actively involved with crowdfunding sector, where he has been engaging in the licensing process therefor, so well as developing corporate and governance structure for such type of business.

Additionally, he has since 2017 been actively contributing to the business communities via various forums and trainings with the aims to support the strengthening and growth acceleration of SMEs in Cambodia which are but the backbone for Cambodian economy. Plus, Sokprapey has experience in litigations in commercial, civil and criminal cases. In addition, he has broad experiences in lecturing of public and commercial law at several universities in Cambodia since early 2012.

On the academic side, Sokprapey graduated from the Royal University of Law and Economics in 2008, majoring private law, and double LLMs of public law, being “public contract law” on the one hand, and “general public law” on the other hand, both in 2011. On the professional side, he has been admitted to the Bar Association of the Kingdom of Cambodia and successfully attended, and passed exam of, lawyer training program under the authority of the Lawyer Training Center of the Kingdom of Cambodia. He has also been accredited by the Securities and Exchanges Commission of Cambodia (SECC) to advise on securities laws and regulations. In addition, he has successfully passed tax agent exam of the General Department of Taxation of the Ministry of Economy and Finance.

Sokprapey speaks Khmer, English and French proficiently.

LLM in Land and Property Law, Royal University of Law and Economics, Phnom Penh, in cooperation with Jean Moulin Lyon 3 University of France

Areas of Practice: Real Estate, Corporate and Taxation, Agreement

Tel: (+855) 61 959 992 Email: vathna@sky-law.asia

Sovathna has joined legal team of S.K.Y Notary Public since 2017. Her areas of practices focus on Real estates, corporate, taxation and drafting of agreement. With consolidated legal research ability and capability from the earlier years of work, Sovathna has effectively assisted, coordinated and recently started leading the legal team to achieve their goals for drafting of agreements, notarial certificates, affidavits, company registration as well as for completing legal due diligence process on immovable properties for various transactions including without limitation to land sale-purchase agreement, perpetual lease agreement, real estate development project. In addition, she also has experiences in preparing monthly and yearly tax return filings for dormant companies as well as annual property tax on immovable property. With the above attributes, she has been orienting herself toward legal consultancy services in general business and corporate taxation.

Prior to joining SKY & ASSOCIATES Law Group, Sovathna did internship with the Centre for Applied Law (CREAD), a Phnom Penh based legal research project of Lumière Lyon 2 University of France with its main local office at the Royal University of Law and Economics, wherefrom she has learnt applied legal research methodologies with professional orientation of Cambodian laws and regulations. In addition, she has successfully completed the training course at Youth Resource Development Program and other projects from several NGOs in Cambodia.

Sovathna graduated LLB majoring in French Private Law from the Université Lumière Lyon 2 and the Royal University of Law and Economics in 2016. In 2018 she graduated LLM majoring in “Land and Property Law” from Jean Moulin Lyon 3 University of France in cooperation with the Royal University of Law and Economics of Cambodia. In addition, she has successfully completed special professional training courses on company registration organized by Ministry of Commerce.

Sovathna speaks Khmer and English with professional working proficiency, and French with limited working proficiency.

LLB from Royal University of Law and Economics, Phnom Penh

Areas of Practice: Real Estate, Corporate, Contract, Legal Research

Tel: (+855) 12 31 63 81 E-mail: soknaven@sky-law.asia

Soknaven’s career as legal assistant has started from 2018. Her areas of practice focus on Real estates, corporate, and drafting of agreements, including without limitation to land sale-purchase agreement, sale-purchase agreement on private unit, shareholder agreement, perpetual lease agreement and other corporate documents such as preparing articles of incorporation, shareholder resolution, resolution of the board of directors. She also handles administrative formality tasks such as company registration before the ministry of commerce, the tax administration and other relevant state agencies. With her consolidated legal research ability, she has effectively been assisting the team in the draft of legal opinion, memorandum and other technical articles relating to specific legal topics. Additionally, she also handles coordination and liaison with clients and state agencies.

Prior to joining SKY & ASSOCIATES Law Group, Soknaven did a six-month internship with the Phnom Penh court of first instance right after her graduation, wherefrom she has gained much awareness of the general functioning of public service of justice and their general administrative works such as case management, document filing, archives management. She also during her freshman year worked as operational intern at Paññāsāstra University of Cambodia where she gained experiences in preparing and executing projects for seminar, marketing and other associated tasks.

Soknaven graduated LLB from the Royal University of Law and Economic in 2017.

Soknaven speaks Khmer and English with professional working proficiency.

LLB, Royal University of Law and Economics, Phnom Penh

Areas of practice: Document Management, Client liaison, General Administrative Tasks, Legal researches, Drafting of Agreement, Translation of Legal Documents

Tel: (+855) 96 534 147 8   Email: rachana@sky-law.asia

Rachana’s career as legal practitioner has started since earlier 2019. She has from the onset got involved with document and case management, general administrative tasks of the law group as swell as legal researches. She has effectively assisted lawyer and notary public in liaison with clients and ensuring smooth and productive communication and meeting environment. She has also been significantly contributed to ensuring exactitude of information and form of notarial certificate, agreement and other documents as well as translation from Khmer into English, and vice versa, thereof. Last, but not least, she has been assisting lawyer and notary public in reviewing draft of agreements and other documents as prepared by other junior staff in the law group.

Rachana graduated LLB from Royal University of Law and Economics in 2018, within special and prestigious program namely English Language Based Bachelor of Law (ELBBL), which she joined in 2015.

Rachana speaks Khmer and English.

LLB, Royal University of Law and Economics, Phnom Penh, in cooperation with Lumière Lyon 2 University of France

Areas of Practice: Drafting of contract, translation of legal documents, legal researches

Tel : (+855) 12 294 404

E-mail : vithet@sky-law.asia

Vithet’s career as legal practitioner has started since 2017 during his late university years. He has been actively supporting the legal team for the drafting and translation of agreements, affidavit, notarial certificates and other legal documents including without limitation to sale-purchase agreement, lease agreement, business cooperation agreement and other types of contract in general. He has also been fully engaged in legal research activities of the law group.

Before joining SKY & ASSOCIATES Law Group, Vithet worked in 2017 as a legal intern at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) where he had effectively assisted the trial chamber in gathering information from witnesses as well as filtering the relevant information and conducting synthetic notes and résumés thereof in three languages, being Khmer, English and French. Furthermore, Vithet had also worked as legal intern at the Securities Exchange Commission of Cambodia (SECC) where he was in charge of conducting comparative researches from historical-legal perspectives between Cambodian and Indonesian securities exchange, on the one hand, and on the other hand, participated in investigation of illegal/non-compliant activities within securities sector.

Vithet holds LLB from Royal University of Law and Economics in 2019, within prestigious, well-disciplined French cooperation program under direct management and supervision of Lumière Lyon 2 University of France.

Vithet speaks Khmer, English and French.

LLB, Royal University of Law and Economics, Phnom Penh, in cooperation with Lumière Lyon 2 University of France

Areas of Practice: Drafting and translation of notarial certificate, affidavit, agreement, legal researches

Tel: (+855) 92 23 10 44 Email: vanndy@sky-law.asia

Vanndy’s career as a legal practitioner has started from 2019. Her support and assistance have been of great significance to the legal team for drafting of several types of contracts such as shareholder agreements, sale-purchase agreement, perpetual lease agreement, loan agreement and other commercial agreements. Furthermore, she has also been in charge of translation of contracts, notarial certificates and other legal documents from Khmer into English and vice versa. In addition, she has been conducting researches and analysis of laws and regulations within the legal team of the law group.

Before joining SKY & ASSOCIATES Law Group, Vanndy did a three-month internship in 2018 right after completion of her 3rd year university as legal intern at a local notary public office where she has gained awareness of notary public career, notary services and their challenges. In 2019 after completing her 4th year university, she did another internship at the Ministry of Foreign affairs and International Cooperation of the Royal Government of Cambodia where she has learnt about general administrative tasks and protocol. In addition, she has also provided free of charge English teachings to kids from poor families within various charity programs. With this crossed sector experiences, Vanndy has made progresses in her career at remarkable pace.

Vanndy holds LLB from Royal University of Law and Economics in 2019, within prestigious, well-disciplined French cooperation program under direct management and supervision of Lumière Lyon 2 University of France. For foreign languages, she has obtained the Advanced certificate (IEAP) from PUC Institute of Foreign Languages (PUC-IFL) since 2016 and Diploma of Advanced 6 courses from Australia Center Education (ACE) in 2018. She also possesses DELF BI level of French from the Institut Français du Cambodge (IFC).

Vanndy speaks Khmer, English and French.

LLB, Royal University of Law and Economics, Phnom Penh, in cooperation with Lumière Lyon 2 University of France

Areas of Practice: Drafting of contract, translation of legal documents, legal researches

Tel: (+855) 93 339 634 E-mail: sonita@sky-law.asia

Sonita’s career as a legal practitioner has started from 2019. She has been actively supporting the legal team for drafting, and ensuring exactitude of information and legal form, of several types of contracts such as land sale-purchase agreement, perpetual lease agreement, loan agreement, agreement on sale-purchase of private unit and other commercial agreements. Furthermore, she has also been in charge of translation of contracts, notarial certificates and other legal documents from Khmer into English and vice versa. In addition, she has been conducting researches and analysis of laws and regulations within the legal team of the law group.

Sonita holds LLB from Royal University of Law and Economics in 2019, within prestigious, well-disciplined French cooperation program under direct management and supervision of Lumière Lyon 2 University of France.

Sonita speaks Khmer, English and French.

LLB, Royal University of Law and Economics, Phnom Penh, in cooperation with Lumière Lyon 2 University of France

Areas of practice: Legal researches, Drafting of Agreement, Translation of Legal Documents

Tel: (+855) 96 874 2008 E-mail: Samdy@sky-law.asia

Samdy’s career as a legal assistant has started in 2019 shortly after his LLB graduation. He has been actively supporting the legal team for legal research activities both for public and private laws. He has also been effectively assisting the team for the drafting and translation of land sale-purchase agreement, shareholder Agreement, business cooperation agreement, other types of business contracts, notarial certificates, affidavits and other legal documents.

Samdy has successfully graduated his LLB from Royal University of Law and Economics in 2019, within prestigious, well-disciplined French cooperation program under direct management and supervision of Lumière Lyon 2 University of France. Additionally, He is currently pursuing LLM in International Business Law (IBL) administered by the Royal University of Law and Economics (RULE) with in depth technical cooperation with Libre de Bruxelles University for France.

Samdy speaks Khmer, English and French proficiently.