Overview
Commercial insight.
Experienced legal leadership.
Sok Hy is a Phnom Penh–based commercial lawyer whose practice focuses on corporate, business and investment transactions, banking, real estate, intellectual property and international arbitration.
Within banking, he advises on loan facilities, corporate and personal guarantees, security mortgages and escrow transactions. His intellectual property work focuses on building and protecting value in clients’ products and services through trademark, franchise and copyright protection, licensing, exclusive distribution and manufacturing agreements.
His corporate, business and investment practice includes business sale and purchase transactions, investment joint ventures, corporate establishment, stock and asset transfers, mergers, entity formation and employment-related matters. In real estate, he advises on acquisitions, sales and project development. His international arbitration experience includes representing clients in arbitral proceedings and assisting with the enforcement of foreign arbitral awards in Cambodia.
Sok Hy provides experienced legal advice to individual and corporate clients and contributes his time as a volunteer legal consultant to a non-profit organisation.
Alongside his commercial law practice, Sok Hy is qualified as a Notary Public of the Kingdom of Cambodia. He is a founder and the President of Peaneach Notary Public (PNP), where he advises and protects the interests of Cambodian and international clients in matters including investments, wills, security agreements and other notarial services regulated by law.