Press Releases

The DFDL team is pleased to announce that Clint O’Connell (Partner, Cambodia Deputy Managing Director & Head of the Cambodia Tax Practice) was featured as a guest expert on the Leader Talks series presented by Cambodian Investment Review (CIR), a media outlet for foreign direct investment in the Kingdom of Cambodia. Mr ...

DFDL and the European Association for Business and Commerce (“EABC”) are pleased to invite you to a breakfast briefing on Thailand’s newly enacted Personal Data Protection Act (“PDPA”) and what businesses

DFDL is pleased to announce that three of our senior experts have been honored as industry leaders in the 2023 World Tax Practitioners Rankings published by the International Tax Review (ITR), a guide to top global tax firms ...

An influential lineup of speakers, including three senior DFDL experts, explained the fundamental elements of Cambodia’s 2019 Law on Trusts and how it pertains to a range of taxation issues at a breakfast workshop on 30 August 2022 in Phnom Penh ...

DFDL is pleased to announce that Chris Robinson (Partner, Co-Head of the M&A Regional Practice Group) and Clint O’Connell (Partner, Head of Cambodia Tax Practice) will be guest speakers at a Mergers and Acquisitions Open Meeting on 7 September 2022 at Topaz Rest

DFDL was honored to be named as the 2022 Cambodia Tax Firm of the Year at the 12th annual International Tax Review Asia-Pacific Tax Awards, regaining a title that DFDL had previously won for four consecutive years. The prestigious regional award, which was announced via a virtual ceremony on 25 August 2022, followed months of research, interviews and peer review conducted by the International Tax Review (ITR), an industry-leading tax publication ...

  DFDL Cambodia, alongside Mah-Kamariyah & Philip Koh (MKP) in Malaysia, GTLaw LLC in Singapore and, lead counsel, Thomson Geer in Australia, advised Domino’s Pizza Enterprises on its biggest deal to date, being an agreement to acquire the existing Domino’s Pizza businesses in Cambodia, Malaysia and Singapore for approximately AUD 214 million ...

On 16 August 2022, DFDL Cambodia was pleased to welcome an audience of clients, associates, business leaders and legal experts to our seminar on the Consumer Protection Law with a specific focus on unfair contract terms to be used with consumers ...

The DFDL team is pleased to announce that we will be sponsoring and participating in the upcoming Trust and Taxes event organized by the American Chamber of Commerce in Cambodia (“AmCham”). This in-person event will be held at The Atom, a co-working hub on the sixth floor of Vattanac Tower in Phnom Penh, on 30 August 2022 from 8:30 am to 12 pm ...

DFDL is pleased to announce that we have been shortlisted for AsiaLaw Awards in five legal jurisdictions across South and Southeast Asia. We have been shortlisted for: Bangladesh Firm of the Year Cambodia Firm of the Year Laos Firm of the Year Myanmar Firm of the Year Vietnam Firm of the Year This year, we are happy to have been shortlisted in Bangladesh for the first time ...

The DFDL team is pleased to report that Paul Volodarsky (Senior Legal Adviser; Deputy Head of Real Estate and Construction Practice) was a featured speaker in a webinar on the post-pandemic recovery of the hospitality sector organized by the American Chamber of Commerce in Thailand (“AmCham”). The panel discussion, “Financing the Return of Thailand’s Hospitality Sector,” was held on 25 July 2022 and presented by AmCham Thailand’s Joint Legal, Tourism and Hospitality Committees ...

We are pleased to invite you to attend “Cambodia’s Consumer Protection Law – Unfair Contract Terms and its Implications on Key Service Sectors,” an in-person workshop to be held at the Hyatt Rege

The DFDL team is pleased to announce that David Fruitman (Regional Competition Counsel and Senior Consultant) and Vansok Khem (Partner) have written an article on Cambodia’s new competition law that has been published in a prestigious legal journal.   The Royal Government of Cambodia on 5 October 2021 passed the Law on Competition (“Competition Law”), which was the first of its kind in the Kingdom ...

DFDL is pleased to announce that DFDL Cambodia and DFDL Vietnam have been shortlisted for the 2022 International Tax Review Asia-Pacific Tax Awards as the Tax Firm of the Year in their respective countries. The 12th annual ITR Asia-Pacific Tax Awards, which announced its shortlists on 7 July 2022, recognize the best performing tax and transfer-pricing firms, teams, individuals and in-house tax advisors across the Asia-Pacific region ...

DFDL is pleased to announce the promotions of Senesakoune Sihanouvong to Deputy Country Managing Director in the Lao PDR and Standre Bezuidenhout to Partner, effective from 1 July 2022. DFDL Regional Managing Partner Audray Souche offered her congratulations to Senesakoune and Standre and applauded their hard work, legal expertise and quality service to clients ...

On 28 June 2022, Nearirath Sreng (Deputy Head of Banking, Finance & Technology) was a featured speaker at a workshop called “Movables Finance Legal Knowledge,” which was organized by the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the World Bank, and the National Bank of Cambodia. The event was held at Raffles Hotel Le Royal in Phnom Penh on 27 and 28 June ...

Kevin Hawkins (DFDL Partner) was a featured guest on 23 June 2022 at the Vietnam Real Estate Symposium organized by the Australian Chamber of Commerce in Vietnam (AusCham) and Knight Frank, a commercial property firm. The high-profile event was held at the Park Hyatt Saigon in Ho Chi Minh City. Mr. Hawkins joined other industry experts to discuss the current property market in Vietnam and the Southeast Asia region ...

On 20 June 2022, Clint O’Connell (Partner, Cambodia Deputy Managing Director & Head of the Cambodia Tax Practice) was featured as panellist on e-commerce event organized by the European Chamber of Commerce in Cambodia with a special join by H.E. Dr. Eng Ratana, Director of the Large Taxpayer Department at the General Department of Taxation and Huy Bunchay, the Head of Business Registration at the Ministry of Commerce ...

DFDL is pleased to announce Anne Coulon (Regional Legal Adviser – Consultant) has been elected as a vice-president of the European Association for Business and Commerce, Thailand (“EABC”). Anne will serve a two-year term and will be a member of the EABC’s new Executive Committee. The Executive Committee is led by Farid Bidgoli, the new president, and Paranee Adulyapichet and Jan Eriksson, who were also elected as vice-presidents ...

DFDL was proud to be a sponsor and participant in the France-Cambodia Business Forum which was held on 9 and 10 June 2022 in a range of premium venues across Phnom Penh. Audray Souche (Regional Managing Partner) led a team of DFDL participants that included Charles Amar (Consultant), Etienne Rieuneau (Head of Business Development; Head of Connector Unit) and Julie Keo (Legal Consultant; Business Development Specialist) ...

A panel discussion organized by DFDL and featuring DFDL experts was highlighted on the website of Cambodia Investment Review on 20 June 2022. The article, headlined “Cambodia’s e-commerce sector seeks clear and regionally uniform regulations,” reported that Nishant Choudhary (Partner and Myanmar Managing Director) was the moderator for the workshop “E-Commerce in Cambodia and Southeast Asia ...