We have the relevant expertise, knowledge, depth and breadth to meet all of your most complex and critical legal needs in Myanmar. Given the qualifications and experience of our lawyers in Myanmar and overseas, we rarely encounter a situation that is new to us.

Corporate

We are able to call upon our experience in dealing with corporate issues to assist each client in formulating a specific plan to address its particular issues.

We are a leader in mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, spin-offs, proxy contests and joint ventures. We regularly advise foreign and local clients on a wide range of corporate and private equity transactions. Our work involves the representation of M&A participants in virtually all capacities — purchasers, sellers, lenders and financial advisors, and our clients include foreign and local business enterprises, merchant banking and investment banking firms, boards of directors and special board committees.

We bring our broad range of experience in mergers and acquisitions and banking & finance transactions to bear in our work for private equity clients. Our private equity practice includes all aspects of transactional work, including representing private equity funds in the purchase and sale of their portfolio assets, as well as representing companies as sellers of assets to private equity funds or purchasers of fund assets.

Capital Markets And Public Companies

Integrated advice on domestic equity capital issues in relation to public companies in Myanmar.

When it comes to an equity offering or an equity-linked offering, a legal advisory team needs to be able to combine securities law expertise with industry sector and practice-specific advice. Whether it’s a domestic or international offering, we have the necessary knowledge and experience of working in multidisciplinary teams and can draw on tax, corporate, finance, calling on the experience of our sector teams.

Commercial & Trade

An unrivalled group of highly qualified consultants offering a unique mix of legal, economic and regulatory expertise to the benefit of local and international clients from a range of industry sectors.

Commercial and international trade developments affect many industries, again presenting both challenges and opportunities especially in an emerging market like Myanmar.

Our clients are companies across the full spectrum of industrial, commercial and service sectors, financial institutions, governments and governmental organisations. We advise them on a complete range of competition, regulatory and trade issues, including merger control, licensing and distribution, intellectual property, restrictive practices, compliance programmes, state aid, liberalisation, public procurement and trade, including World Trade Organization matters.

Corporate, Joint Venture & M&A

With our depth of experience, skills and resource, and sector focus and expertise, we advise clients on their strategic and challenging transactions across different markets and, in many cases, with multijurisdictional dimensions.

We represent many of the world’s leading international and local corporations, financial institutions and sponsors on the largest and most innovative transactions in Myanmar – from takeovers, mergers and cross border acquisitions to strategic alliances, joint ventures, outsourcings and restructurings.

Our ability to operate for our local clients or to assist foreign investors is greatly assisted by the depth of our sector expertise and knowledge, which enables us deliver relevant expertise in Myanmar and across all industries, with a deep understanding of the issues and challenges facing our clients.

Our clients value the quality of our people, our track record and in depth market knowledge, and our commitment to delivering results, whether it is M&A, corporate transactions, strategic alliances, joint ventures and restructurings or general commercial or corporate advice we are offering.

Private Equity

Our private equity consultants advise clients at all stages, from establishing the commercial vehicles and making investments, to ongoing portfolio assistance including restructuring advice, to exiting from those investments.

Clients benefit from market-leading funds, corporate M&A, restructuring and finance experts and their understanding of the fund-raising, fund structuring, buyout and restructuring market. We help clients structure the best investment methods for them, from helping sponsors position themselves to ensure they are the lead equity sponsor when looking at investing to clubbing together to compete for distressed assets. 

We have a reputation for combining the highest quality technical expertise with commercial pragmatism.

Intellectual Property

We can offer our clients our practically applied IP knowledge and expertise, as well as a deep understanding of the challenges involved with conducting a market leading, international business in a constantly evolving technological environment.

We advice on best practice use and protection of IP in Myanmar.

Control, licensing and distribution, intellectual property, restrictive practices, compliance programmes, state aid, liberalisation, public procurement and trade, including World Trade Organization matters.

Employment

We are committed to the development of best practice within all three areas and devote a considerable amount of time and resources to training our lawyers to ensure our clients receive the best, practical and robust advice.

Banking & Finance

Our collegial style and our teamwork orientation match well with the project team approach used by most of our arranger, financial institution and borrower clients.

Our banking practice is among the best banking practices in the countries where we operate and we have a deep knowledge of the domestic laws. Our banking practice and our banking consultants have handled several transactions involving primary financial institutions and leading corporations as well as matters for our exceptional base of financial sponsor and other corporate relationship in several parts of the world.

Particular areas of emphasis include microfinance, leveraged finance, acquisition finance, financial institution lending, banking regulatory, restructuring and insolvency.

We are committed to bring this experience accrued overseas into Myanmar.

Bank lending and syndicated loans

The our banking lending and syndicated loans group consists of a team of advisers drawn from our finance, corporate and real estate practices who have an unrivalled breadth and depth of experience of working with financial institutions in South-East Asia and the rest of the world. Arranging banks, lenders,sponsors and borrowers rely on our outstanding track record in cross-border financing across every industry, including commercial, financial and governmental sectors.

Bank lending, from straightforward bilateral facilities agreements to complex syndicated structured financings, and regulatory advices are other key elements of the firm’s banking & finance department.

Banking regulatOry

The increasingly complex and demanding requirements of both the Governments and National Banks have kept regulation at the top of every bank and financial institution’s agenda. Our financial services regulatory specialists have worked with a significant number of financial institutions to help them address
effectively all aspects of financial services regulation including setting up local branches and obtaining the banking licenses from the relevant authorities.

Microfinance

We provide a full legal assistance since the very first step of the incorporation to more sophisticated banking and finance transactions in the microfinance.

Restructuring and Insolvency

We have unrivalled expertise in formal restructurings and informal workouts. We also offer practical and commercial advice on a full range of contentious and non-contentious issues encountered in insolvencies such as moratoriums, work-outs, standstills and override arrangements, rescheduling of debts, debt to equity swaps, restructuring by means of corporate finance transactions and restructurings through insolvency processes.

Natural Resources, Oil & Gas, Mining

Our natural resources group is made up of acknowledged legal experts in the oil & gas and mining industry.

The natural resources group comprises consultants with outstanding experience accrued assisting primary clients in Myanmar. They advise a broad range of companies in the mining industry, including major mining and metals companies, junior mining companies across the full range of issues that apply to the sector.

Oil & Gas

Whether you are contemplating an upstream investment, a downstream project or simply need help navigating your way through the complexity or diversity of handling a deal or dispute in Myanmar, we have the team and experience to assist you.

Our industry focused oil and gas group consists of specialists from all practice areas to deliver an integrated legal and tax service.

Our clients include national and international oil companies, independents, lenders, sponsors, export credit agencies and governmental bodies. The work we do for them includes groundbreaking mandates on some of their most important and technically challenging initiatives.

Mining And Metals

In a sector that relies on extensive investment, we have one of the strongest team. We act for all the leading players, including mining houses, investors and underwriters. We are often involved in negotiations with Governments, regulators and investment partners.

Our team’s expertise extends to advising clients in a range of businesses from mining (non-ferrous and precious metals, coal and other minerals) to smelting, refining, trading and semimanufacturing.

Our aim is to find commercial solutions for investors in complex legal and regulatory regime. In addition to M&A and financing expertise, this also requires a solid
understanding of the tax and regulatory rules.

We are one of the few firms able to help mining and metals clients address these challenges in Myanmar. 

Energy, Infrastructure And Project Finance

We can help our clients, which include commercial lenders, development banks, major utilities, sovereign wealth funds, private equity houses, Government bodies, project sponsors and suppliers and purchasers and contractors, respond effectively to the changing shape of the energy and infrastructure sector, brought about by market liberalization and its implications.

We can assist in meeting the ever more complex demands of regulatory frameworks, such as in by providing top tier legal advice and industry knowledge.

The energy, infrastructure and project finance group monitors industry trends, such as developments in power need, to help give the edge on issues that continue to dominate the energy and infrastructure sector.

Energy

We provide top-tier legal expertise in the power sector, including in hydropower, fossil power and renewable, for global clients around the world through our office in Myanmar. Our dedicated energy and utilities lawyers have peerless knowledge and experience, encompassing major transactions and regulatory advice in the global power and renewable industries.

Project Finance and Infrastructure

The project finance and construction group is a multi-disciplinary group of highly-experienced lawyers who provide innovative legal advice, including expertise in construction, environment, PFI/PPP, project finance and tax.

We act for sponsors, lenders, contractors and suppliers. Our broad experience advising the full range of market participants means that we are able to anticipate, and importantly to understand, issues and problems that may arise during the course of a project and find constructive solutions to them. The project finance group advises on PPP/PFI, project financings and developments in all sectors.

The infrastructure group is committed to helping you keep pace with market and regulatory developments as well as enabling you to enter new markets, protect your interests, manage risk and strengthen your business. With our detailed understanding of the commercial environment in which our clients operate we are ideally placed to help our clients achieve their aims.

Engineering, Procurement & Construction

Our strength in EPC contracts is our ability to blend our legal expertise in identifying and addressing the issues and risks which arise in such contracts, together with industry focused knowledge.

Our clients include public and private sector developers, funders, contractors, end-users and service and technology providers. While acting for one participant in the construction process, we can therefore understand the perspective of the others.

Real Estate, Hospitality & Tourism

Forward thinking and commercial in our approach, with a recognised ability to deliver complex deals, we handle the entire property ‘life-cycle’ from the initial acquisition, development, leasing, joint venturing and financing through to the final exit.

Real Estate

Buying and selling real estate for investment purposes has become more complex and is often structured in a complex fashion, featuring cross-border elements. Leading global investors, developers, occupiers and financial institutions with major space requirements choose us to advise on their largest and most complex real estate transactions and disputes.

As well as mainstream real estate work, we advise on opportunities for tax efficiency, complex investment structures, property finance, innovative financing methods, the impact of environmental issues, construction and planning aspects, and corporate structures.

Our real estate group is closely linked to the specialist expertise provided by our tax, finance and corporate advisors, areas that are often integral to the structuring of major real estate projects.

We also assist international and local clients in obtaining concession and construction permits from the relevant authorities of the country where we operate.

Hospitality & Tourism

Whether you are a lender, developer, investor, owner or occupier, and whether you are planning to develop a hotel, resort, serviced apartment, casino, theme park, our real estate department can advise you on all legal requirements related to this sector.

Bringing together industry knowledge and technical expertise from across our offices, our partners take a commercial approach to help your business and investments work for you. We have a deep knowledge of the domestic laws and we advised several owners, investors and financiers in the hotels and leisure sector, covering management contracts, sale-and-manage backs, single asset acquisitions, single country portfolio deals and cross-border portfolio deals.

Telecommunications, Media & Technology

The TMT group is an integrated team of consultants and has regular regional and world-wide meetings, joint training programs and know-how exchanges, ensuring that best practice in one territory is available to all lawyers throughout the firm.

Telecommunications

In the rapidly changing telecommunications industry, our consultants employ a multidisciplinary approach to tackling the broad range of issues that face our clients. In addition, leading global customers and suppliers depend on the commercial and innovative advice of our team of specialist TMT advisors.

Our TMT team has an in-depth understanding of the sector and brings the right mix of industry knowledge and experience of TMT transactions. We invest time to understand our clients’ strategic objectives, offering relevant and practical advice. Our TMT practice deals with all aspects of major commercial contracts in the TMT industry. The team helps clients to achieve their commercial aims and also to develop strategies and programmes for managing any kind of risk.

Media

We regularly advise the main newspapers and magazines in Myanmar where we operate. In addition, we have successfully negotiated lifting right agreements amongst regional and local newspapers and publications operative in the Region.

We also assist clients in obtaining the relevant licenses from the relevant authorities in Myanmar.

Technology

Our TMT practice acts for a cross-section of international and local companies such as developers, distributors and suppliers of IT systems and services. We also advise international corporate customers on a wide range of major technology projects and technology-related issues such as procurement, licensing and outsourcing. We are one of a very limited number of law firms which have assisted clients in the satellite industry in Myanmar.

Transport & Logistics

Our infrastructure and transport sector team brings together a team of experienced and dedicated specialists from across the full spectrum of commercial law. Through our work with leading transport and logistics companies, their advisers, and their suppliers, we have developed the industry knowledge to provide the specialized support required.

Aviation

Air transportation is a vital contributor to development and global economic growth. We have experience in all types of transactions involving big ticket assets, including debt and export credit financing, manufacturer support programs, operating leases, restructurings and work-outs, secured lending solutions, structured finance products and tax leasing.

Logistics

Our team combines technical excellence with creative, commercial and proactive advice. We advise local and international post and logistics companies, international courier and other express delivery services on all aspects of their business, including M&A, financing, regulatory, employment law and on the outsourcing of various logistics functions.

shipping

The dedicated practice handles corporate and commercial shipping matters including international trade work, shipping risk and on shipping insurances, litigation and dispute resolution.

Tax

We integrate innovative tax structuring expertise with the highest quality advisory skills to give clients a comprehensive tax service.

We have experience of advising on the full spectrum of corporate, financing, investment and real estate transactions, as well as tax litigation, disputes and transfer pricing. In addition to corporate tax expertise, we have specialists who advise on VAT and other indirect taxes.

We provide tax advice on the full range of financial products including lending, acquisition finance, real estate finance, asset finance, project finance, insolvency & restructuring.

Our focus is always on delivering both tax efficient and commercial solutions for our clients. We act for all the world’s leading investment and commercial banks together with many private equity and corporate clients. Our specialist corporate tax experts advise in all the key financial and business centres and have indepth experience of advising on all forms of corporate transaction, including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, partnership structures, cross-border transactions and IPOs.

We regularly work together to advice on a full range of multijurisdictional matters, advising global businesses, harnessing the skills and expertise of our international tax team through integrated project management to deliver a seamless service.

We are experts in tax complex deal structures and can provide you with comprehensive advice on real estate taxation.

Litigation and Dispute Resolutions

We actively pursue all avenues of dispute resolution available and advise clients on choosing the method most appropriate to them and to a particular matter. Our main priority is to resolve disputes quickly and effectively with as little disruption to business as possible – recognition of this is central to how we approach any matter.

Dispute resolution lawyers represent global businesses on litigation, arbitration, mediation and regulatory matters.

Our approach emphasizes practical understanding of our clients’ business problems. We specialize in managing complex cases involving multiple claims and parties. We also work closely with other practice areas to develop compliance initiatives and other techniques to help our clients reduce litigation risk. We also have broad experience in corporate risk management and conflict management, advising senior level board members and executives of substantial corporations and banks.