Youdy is the firm’s Practice Leader of the Corporate, Banking & Finance and Commercial Litigation practices. He is currently a panel lawyer for numerous foreign banks operating in Cambodia, including one of the largest banks in terms of assets and loan portfolio. He provides advice to some of the largest financial institutions and securities firms in Asia relating to their business expansion and entry strategies into Cambodia. Youdy recently counseled a large Japanese electronics manufacturer with their USD65 million investment project establishing the first electronic large-scale mass-production facility in the country. He also previously counseled one of Cambodia’s largest conglomerates on the acquisition of a USD60 million turn-key brewery plant and assisted a foreign fund in a transaction for the partial debt assignment of the largest loan ever granted in the telecommunications sector.
Youdy is one of the first commercial arbitrators selected in the Kingdom. He is an attorney-at-law admitted to the Bar Association of the Kingdom of Cambodia and its former Secretary-General. He studied in prestigious universities in Cambodia, France and the United States. Youdy has been ranked a leading lawyer in Cambodia in Chambers & Partners’ 2011 Asia Pacific Guide and is praised as a “detailed and meticulous” lawyer who specializes in foreign investment, banking, corporate and commercial litigation. He is fluent in Khmer, English and French.

Practice Areas:

• Corporate
• Banking & Finance
• Commercial Litigation