VDB Loi

Edwin Vanderbruggen of VDB Loi’s banking and finance team advised Maybank on its $51 million revolving credit facility for a garment company in Cambodia. He provided legal opinion on the validity and enforceability of the facility documents under Cambodian law. He also advised Bluebird Co on its proposed acquisition of a commercial bank in Laos – a deal which never closed.

Well versed in financial law, including matters with banks, insurers and securities firms, Potim Yun of VDB Loi, advised on a $90 million bond issuance. Yun is also advising on a proposed IPO by an Asian firm on the CSX.

Potim Yun and managing partner Jean Loi at VDB Loi are acting for private equity real estate manager Limetree Capital on the development of two resort islands off coastal Cambodia. The construction and real estate practice is handling all the land issues, including comprehensive title due diligence, structuring, regulatory advice and dispute resolution.

The corporate and M&A practice at VDB Loi advises foreign companies and investors entering or expanding their interests in Cambodia. The regional firm manages acquisition projects across Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, and Vietnam.

VDB Loi’s practice has advised on a number of energy and natural resources projects, such as hydro and coal power, and oil exploration blocks in Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Vietnam and Thailand. Jean Loi is advising a local subsidiary of Mitsui Oil Exploration on a profit-sharing agreement with the Cambodian National Petroleum Authority.

VDB Loi has a wealth of expertise in Cambodia’s dynamic telecommunications and telecommunications infrastructure sectors. Potim Yun advised on some of the largest investment projects in Cambodia, including a prominent acquisition of two telecommunications companies by Singaporean and Malaysian companies.

The team at VDB Loi covering projects and infrastructure continues to advise on pioneering transactions to spur Cambodia’s economic development. Potim Yun and Laysym Sim are advising AZ Investment on its engineering, procurement and construction contract for one of the country’s first public-private partnership highways.

Jean Loi, managing partner at VDB Loi and former tax partner at PwC, is known for her work in tax structuring of energy and infrastructure projects. Instructed by MOECO Cambodia Oil and Gas, Loi is advising on the project’s taxation issues.

Edwin Vanderbruggen manages VDB Loi’s banking and finance team to offer practical solutions for Myanmar’s finance sector. Vanderbruggen advised a consortium of six development banks on a $122 million cross-border project financing for a telecommunications network infrastructure development project by Irrawaddy Green Towers.

The Yangon office of regional firm VDB Loi advises construction companies, investors and banks on mixed-use projects. The construction and real estate practice, led by Edwin Vanderbruggen, represented a publicly-listed real estate developer on land issues, and corporate and tax structuring.

Edwin Vanderbruggen, who is also head of the firm in Myanmar, leads VDB Loi’s corporate and commercial practice. The firm has advised Japanese trading houses on their transactions including drafting commercial contracts. The practice has also represented a Fortune 500 tobacco company on its inbound investment and a global beverage company on its local market entry.

VDB Loi’s dispute resolution and litigation practice is well positioned to benefit from Myanmar’s new Arbitration Law, which was enacted in January 2016. In other ASEAN markets, Edwin Vanderbruggen has advised telecommunications and extractives companies on tax disputes.

Edwin Vanderbruggen, Chris Sheridan and Aung Soe Moe of VDB Loi advised Zeya Associates on its $150 million 15 megawatt waste-to-energy power plant expected to come online by the end of 2016.

Jean Loi, managing partner of VDB Loi, has particular expertise in telecommunications projects. The IT, telecommunications and media practice advised a multinational telecommunications operator on its bid for a nationwide licence in Myanmar. The team also advised a European multinational supplier of network solutions on the legal risks in its local business.

VDB Loi has extensive experience in handling labour and employment matters. Jean Loi and Chris Sheridan advised Malaysian Airline System (MAS) on the requirements for the termination and transfer of employees in Myanmar to Malaysian Airlines under Burmese employment laws following MAS’s restructuring.

VDB Loi’s private equity practice advised a fund on its local and international corporate structure in Myanmar. Edwin Vanderbruggen also counselled a private equity fund on its tax structuring in Cambodia. Private equity is expected to accelerate in Myanmar, due, in part, to the Asian Development Bank’s low interest loans, totalling $1.75 billion from 2017 to 2022.

At VDB Loi, Edwin Vanderbruggen and Chris Sheridan advised on all transactional matters for the Ministry of Rail Transportation (MRT) for one of Myanmar’s first public-private partnerships, a $320 million telecommunications network.