Nearirath Sreng is a Legal Consultant and Deputy Head of DFDL Cambodia’s Banking, Finance and Technology Practice Group and is based at our Phnom Penh office. She has over 13 years’ of vast and wide-ranging experience in legal matters related to banking, finance and technology, complex cross-border transactions, financial restructuring, capital markets and private equity matters. This experience has equipped her extensive and unparalleled knowledge on the intricacies of banking and financial regulatory frameworks across Southeast Asia and further afield. She graduated (by way of a scholarship) with a Bachelor’s Degree in law and psychology in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, then went on to attain her Master of Laws at the University of Hong Kong in International Law, Corporate Law and Human Rights Law.

Prior to joining DFDL, she worked for Tilleke and Gibbins, Kelvin Chia Partnership and other leading financial institutions as in-house counsel. Throughout her career Nearirath has advised an array of local and international banks, intermediaries operating in capital markets, insurance companies, FinTech startups, e-commerce platforms, telecom conglomerates, MFIs and other financial institutions. She regularly provides her expertise on financial services compliance and regulatory matters advising on payment gateways, e-wallets, digitalization, tokenization, cloud banking and more. She works closely with clients to identify and implement tailored, innovative and unique solutions in response to complex regulatory issues and matters of compliance. Nearirath has also actively assisted and advised governmental departments and banking/finance stakeholders on the drafting of e-commerce and consumer protection legislation and their subordinate implementing regulations. She has written articles on development of the e-commerce regulations from time to time and is frequently called upon as a speaker on e-commerce and FinTech topics. She speaks fluent English and Khmer.