Our key people

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We believe that it is indispensable for us to have a team of outstanding and experienced lawyers and professionals to provide timely high-quality legal services and innovative legal solutions to our clients. Below are the brief profiles of our key people:

LY Sambo 

Lawyer & Commercial Arbitrator  

sl@al-laws.com 

Sambo holds an LL.M in Business Law from Yokohama National University (Japan) and has 19 years of experience in legal practice, advising clients on banking and financing, secured transactions, corporate and commercial, M&A, foreign investment, concessions, telecom, real estate, energy, mining, licensing, infrastructure, arbitration, litigation, insolvency and tax matters. He is rated as a leading lawyer in IFLR1000.  

He has extensive experience in debt and equity finance, project finance, merger and acquisition, and joint venture, including working on some of the largest transactions in Cambodia. He has acted as a national consultant for ADB and World Bank in some technical assistance projects related to PPP, energy and infrastructure. He has also represented clients in criminal and civil cases in Cambodian courts. 

Sambo is also among the first commercial arbitrators admitted to the Cambodian National Commercial Arbitration Center (NCAC) and he has been appointed to resolve one of the first arbitration cases filed with the NCAC.

Below are his articles and publications:   

• Project Finance – Cambodia, 2017 (Getting the Deal Through)
• Recent Developments in Commercial Arbitration in Cambodia, January 2015 (Asian Dispute Review)
• Guide to Lending and Taking Security in Asia, 2014 (Herbert Smith Freehills)