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Nishant Choudhary (Partner, Myanmar Deputy Managing Director) discusses the 2022 predicting trends for Myanmar mergers and acquisitions in the Asian Legal Business article “ALB Asia M&A Predictions 2022”. This article focuses on how 2022 will be for mergers and acquisitions in the region. Asian based lawyers and experts give their views on what to expect in their jurisdiction in the coming months
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The launch of the Chambers Asia-Pacific Guide 2022 has seen an increase in practice and individual rankings for DFDL. We upheld our strong performance this year with new rankings in Thailand for Tax (Band 3), Technology, Media & Telecom (Band 4) and Corporate/M&A (Band 5) and in Vietnam for Tax (Spotlight Table).
Our deepest appreciation and congratulations to our hard-working Partners and their team for their resilience, dedication, and commitment throughout 2021
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On 10 December 2021, Paul Volodarsky (Deputy Head of Regional Real Estate & Construction Practice and Head of the Hospitality Sector) was delighted to participate in the Hospitality Asia Virtual Conference. Paul joined the panel discussion on the “Future of Vietnam Hospitality” as a speaker along with other industry experts
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DFDL is pleased to announce that our Partners have been ranked in Thailand’s Top 100 lawyers by Asia Business Law Journal for 2021. Featured among this year’s rankings were David Doran (Founding Partner), Audray Souche (Regional Managing Partner) and Vinay Ahuja (Partner; Head of Regional Banking, Finance & Technology Practice, Indonesia Practice and India Desk). We are delighted to have our legal advisers represented and given due recognition in these prestigious rankings
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Recording Date: 23 November 2021
The digital transformation experienced over the last number of years and greatly accelerated by COVID-19 has resulted in unprecedented global economic and societal shifts with more people moving towards online services and companies collecting ever increasing volumes of data
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The STEP ASIA Conference 2021 was held virtually during 16-18 November 2021. The annual event stands one of the largest estate and trust conferences in Asia. This year’s topics centered around asset structuring with a focus on simplicity, sustainability and stability, the issues facing stakeholders in this sphere and practical ways in which to overcome them
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Recording Date: 16 November 2021
The digital transformation experienced over the last number of years and greatly accelerated by COVID-19 has resulted in unprecedented global economic and societal shifts with more people moving towards online services and companies collecting ever increasing volumes of data
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Recording Date: 16 November 2021
The digital transformation experienced over the last number of years and greatly accelerated by COVID-19 has resulted in unprecedented global economic and societal shifts with more people moving towards online services and companies collecting ever increasing volumes of data
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Recording Date: 16 November 2021
The digital transformation experienced over the last number of years and greatly accelerated by COVID-19 has resulted in unprecedented global economic and societal shifts with more people moving towards online services and companies collecting ever increasing volumes of data
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Recording Date: 3 November 2021
Watch this brief, concise and easy-to-follow 4 minute video to understand the Cambodian Competition Law’s substantive prohibitions.
Following our first episode which introduced the new Law (see link here), David Fruitman (Regional Competition Counsel, Senior Consultant) in this second episode sheds more light on the Law’s substantive prohibitions: anti-competitive agreements, abuses of dominant position and anti-competitive business combinations
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On 15 November 2021, Vinay Ahuja (Partner; Head of Regional Banking, Finance & Technology Practice, Indonesia Practice and India Desk) participated in the IPBA Annual Mid-Year Conference organized by the Inter-Pacific Bar Association (“IPBA”). The key theme of this year’s conference was “Code Red – Our responsibility to the earth” which was a follow up to last year’s hot topic “ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) in Banking and Finance”
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On 11 November 2021, DFDL’s Regional Tax Practice team was pleased to join the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (“ACCA”) Mainland Southeast Asia for its live event “Recent International Tax Development in CLMVT – What You Need to Know”.
Jack Sheehan (Partner and Head of Regional Tax Practice) gave a brief, succinct and to-the-point presentation on recent tax updates and developments in the Southeast Asian Region
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On 10 November 2021, Shahwar Nizam (Partner & Bangladesh Managing Director) participated in the Singapore Week of Innovation and Technology as a speaker on the ‘Partnering Startups in Bangladesh for Growth’ panel discussion along with other industry experts.
Shahwar shared his expertise and experience with the audience regarding Bangladesh’s nascent start-up sector. He discussed current opportunities for international corporates and startups in the corporate digital and innovation space
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On 2 November 2021, Nearirath Sreng (Senior Consultant and Deputy Head of Cambodia Banking, Finance & Technology Practice) was pleased to participate in the Public-Private Dialogue Series session “Unpacking the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (“RCEP”) Agreement” organized by the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (“ERIA”)
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Recording Date: 3 November 2021
Watch this brief, concise and easy-to-follow 2 minute video to give yourself a proper and informed understanding on Cambodia’s new Competition Law and its regulatory framework.
Cambodia’s long-awaited Competition Law was signed into law by the King on 5 October 2021
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On 3 November 2021, DFDL Thailand and Vietnam team members participated in a joint webinar on “Exploring Business Opportunities In Vietnam & Thailand – Focused Sectors: Food And Beverage (F&B)”. The webinar, organized by Source of Asia, Investment and Trade Promotion Center (“ITPC”) and Lim & Partner was separated into 4 different sections
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DFDL Myanmar recently contributed to the Mondaq Real Estate Comparative Guide. Written by Nishant Choudhary (Partner), Diberjohn Balinas (Senior Tax Advisor), Rohan Bishayee (Legal Adviser) and Kyaw Kyaw Han (Legal Adviser), this comprehensive guide offers clear and detailed insights into Myanmar’s real estate regulatory framework and how it operates in practice
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DFDL acted as local counsel on the majority acquisition by Kookmin (a Korean commercial bank) of Prasac Microfinance Institution (Cambodia’s largest microfinance business) from the seller consortium, which included Bank of East Asia.
In April 2020, Kookmin Bank acquired a 70% stake in Prasac for USD 603
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David Fruitman (Regional Competition Counsel/Senior Consultant) was recently quoted in an article ‘Cambodia finally passes competition law, but key details still to come’ published by MLex.
The article runs through key aspects of the new Competition Law with a focus on the next steps awaiting completion by the government such as the issuance of sub-decrees to bring the competition commission into being and outlining further details of the new law’s merger control regime
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DFDL is pleased to announce that our offices in the Lao PDR and Myanmar have both been named ‘Firm of Year 2021’ by Asialaw.
We are delighted to receive this recognition and even more pleased to receive the ‘Editor’s Choice Impact Deal and Case’ Award for our work on the Thai Airways restructuring along with Chandler MHM, Kudun and Partners, R&T Asia (Thailand), SCL Nishimura, Tilleke & Gibbins, Weerawong C&P
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On 27 September 2021, Charles Amar (DFDL Cambodia Head of Real Estate and Construction Practice) participated in EuroCham Cambodia’s Real Estate September final session on “The Impacts of Hazardous Construction Materials” in association with Union Aid Abroad APHEDA. Charles moderated the panel discussion which followed after two insightful presentations
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DFDL is very pleased to be featured in BestStartup.Asia’s 49 Top Singapore Advice Companies and Startups. This article showcases the top picks of Singapore-based Advice companies taking a variety of approaches to lead innovation in the advice industry.
It serves as the go-to list for startups and companies, across the size spectrum from cutting-edge startups to established brands
