Our Team - SOK Davy

SOK Davy

Attorney at Law


  • Email: davy.sok@sithisak-lawoffice.com


Mrs. Davy is an Attorney at Law and Deputy Head of Corporate, Commercial, and Investment Practice Group at Sithisak Law Office.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES

Prior to joining Sithisak in 2014, Davy served as a legal trainee at Cambodian Life Insurance. She speaks Khmer, French and English.

At Sithisak, she has expertise in several fields including:

  • Labour and employment practice: she assists client in applying for enterprise declaration and registration at Ministry of Labour and Vocational training (MLVT) and at National Social Security Fund (NSSF), employee registration at National Social Security Fund (NSSF), applying for declaration on employee movement in-out, annual quota for both normal rate and additional rate, annual work permit for both employer and employee, Cambodian employment book and visa in-out, physical aptitude certificate, registration of foreign employment contract, and apprentice permit; Besides the above, she also drafts and advises on employment contract both fixed and unfixed duration contract, HR policies, internal labour regulation and employment handbook for companies and NGO. Davy also professionally advises and assists company in negotiation with employees on labour dispute resolution, mass-layoff, represents company at MLVT during labour dispute resolution.
  • Insurance: she advises and assists several insurance companies, including life insurance and micro insurance companies, in applying for new insurance products registration and applying for other approval at Insurance Regulator of Cambodia (IRC). She also provides legal advice and assist in drafting insurance contract, insurance consultant contract, bancassurance agreement both for referral and corporate agent model.

With these extensive knowledge and experience in labour sector, Davy is a key contributor to conducting legal due diligence on both labour and insurance compliance for various company during in intended M&A and bond issuance and IPO process.

  • Corporate and regulatory compliances: she assists client in registration of company, license approval from ministry and local authority, products registrations including food/pesticide/fertilization/livestock/animal feed products at Ministry of Health (MOH) and Ministry of Agriculture Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF), registration of local organization at Ministry of Interior (MOI). She also experienced in drafting and reviewing the share purchase agreements and shareholder agreement as well as conducting corporate due diligence and advising for corporate governance in IPO project.
  • Health project and litigation. She has worked with many international organizations and Ministry of Health in drafting Laws, Royal Decrees and Sub Decrees related to the health sector, as well as coordinate for the appointment of International Organizations and Ministry of Health. Besides the above, she represents client to the court, issues the demand notice, filing complaint, motion, documents to the court, preparing statement for court. She also assists other lawyers in legal research and interpretation.

EDUCATION

  • University Paris 2 Panthéon-Assas (Master 2 in major of International Business Law in French) (2017)
  • Royal University of Law and Economics and Lumière Lyon2 University ( Cambodia-France Dual Bachelor’s Degrees of Laws) (2014)