Kelvin Chia Yangon

Managed by Cheah Swee Gim, the Yangon office of Singaporean law firm Kelvin Chia Partnership provides comprehensive legal services. Gim acted as legal counsel to a Japanese global bank to establish a Myanmar branch office. Pedro Bernardo has extensive banking and capital markets experience. Before moving to Myanmar he specialised in project financing and debt and equity issuances in the Philippines. 

Cheah Swee Gim, head of the corporate and commercial practice, as well as M&A, at Kelvin Chia Partnership provides local and overseas clients with solid commercial legal services and transactional work. Pedro Bernardo is representing the food and beverages division of a Philippine-listed company in its $10 million outbound foreign investment and joint venture with a local Myanmar partner.

Cheah Swee Gim and Lyra Miragrace Flores, of the energy and natural resources team at Kelvin Chia Partnership, advised Sein Wut Hmon on its $20 million joint venture with Japanese trading house Marubeni for the production and distribution of fertiliser in Myanmar.

Kelvin Chia Partnership maintains a large intellectual property (IP) registration portfolio and is legal counsel for many international patent and trade mark agents. Instructed by Jardine Restaurant Group and CM Foods, Cheah Swee Gim advised on the establishment of a restaurant chain in Myanmar under the Pizza Hut franchise.

Kelvin Chia Partnership has a team of Myanmar lawyers with robust local knowledge and experience of the country’s projects and infrastructure laws and regulations. Cheah Swee Gim advised Kianjoo Can and Boxpak on the formation of about $25 million of foreign-owned manufacturing facilities in the Thilawa Special Economic Zone.