Adjunct Lecturer Teaching Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A)

Mr. Youdy serves as the firm’s Practice Leader of the Banking and Finance, Corporate and M&A, Commercial Dispute Resolution, Digital and telecommunications, and Oil and gas practice groups. He is currently a panel lawyer for numerous foreign banks operating in Cambodia. His expertise includes market entry for financial institutions, project finance, offshore financing, as well as other complex financial products and regulatory matters in the financial sector. He has a vast range of clientele from large financial institutions, foreign EXIM banks, fund managers, and foreign and international development agencies. He has advised some of Asia’s largest financial institutions and security firms on their business expansion and market entry strategies into Cambodia. Youdy’s most recent M&A transactions include a multi-jurisdictions billion-dollar acquisition of a leading beverage bottling operation in Cambodia, where he acted as a Cambodian counsel to the foreign buyer on its 100% acquisition, and a multi-million-dollar acquisition and business expansion of a food & beverage business chain.

Youdy is a former President and one of the first commercial arbitrators admitted to the National Commercial Arbitration Center of Cambodia (NCAC) and also a Fellow of the Singapore Institute of Arbitrators (SIArb). Youdy has been consistently ranked a top-tier lawyer in Cambodia by IFLR 1000, Legal500, Chambers & Partners, and won numerous awards for legal practice in Cambodia, including the 2019 Practitioner of the Year and the 2020 Client Excellent Award by Asialaw. Most recently, he was named Asia Best Lawyers 2020 by the International Financial Law Review. He is fluent in Khmer, English, and French.