Healthcare & Life Sciences
Our Healthcare & Life Sciences Practice Group has extensive experience of advising local and international clients on a broad range of legal matters relating to health including:
- The establishment and licensing of hospitals, clinics and pharmacies in Cambodia
- The importation of pharmaceuticals into Cambodia
- The labelling of and documentation to be included with pharmaceuticals
- Compliance with health and hygiene standards required to be observed by medical and other institutions
- The importation of food and beverage products and the relevant labeling requirements
- Laws applicable to tobacco and alcohol
- The protection of intellectual property rights
Some of our advisers are advisors to government ministries and assist in the drafting of laws and regulations. This gives HBS LAW an edge when it comes to dealing with ministries such as the Ministry of Health.
In relation to intellectual property rights, our advisers work closely with our Intellectual Property Practice Group to ensure that our clients receive practical and thorough advice on how to protect their intellectual property rights and our Taxation & Customs Practice Group in respect of importations. Our advisers also work closely with advisers from different practice groups where the matter involves healthcare or life sciences (e.g. the acquisition of a hospital) to ensure that practical and market-specific advice is provided.
Patrick Smith
Senior Partner
Head of Banking & Finance
Patrick has worked extensively across a broad array of practice areas with a specialization in the banking and finance sector as both in-house counsel and in private practice throughout Southeast Asia, Japan and the UK.
Vannak Sun
Attorney
In late 2015 and early 2016, Mr. Sun interned at Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia. In 2017, he began working for HBS LAW. In 2019, he left the firm to study his Master of Laws (LL.M.) at Sweden’s Lund University.
Leakhena Nhep
Junior Associate
Leakhena is a member of the Banking & Finance and Dispute Resolution Practice Groups. She is currently advising clients in relation to secured and unsecured lending, OTC derivatives, bank regulation and acquisitions of BFIs. In addition, Leakhena assists with banking litigation as well as dispute resolution in other sectors.
Related Publications
Legal Brief July 2019: Creating a Will.
Deal Lists
- Defending a Malaysian Company in a criminal lawsuit raised by the Ministry of Commerce’s General Department of Consumer Protection, Competition and Fraud Repression seeking damages for mothers of children with milk powder deficiency.
- Advising HOPE Worldwide on a boilerplate Health Facility Management Contract.
- Advising an offshore investor on the importation of medical equipment and the financial leasing thereof.
- Advising a Singaporean client in relation to its acquisition of a Singaporean holding company that runs a clinic in Cambodia and conducting due diligence thereon.
- Advising Johnson & Johnson on package inserts for pharmaceutical products in Cambodia.
- Advising Natera Inc., on the establishment of a genetic testing facility in Cambodia.
- Advising, on an ongoing basis, a major Japanese tobacco factory on the laws relating to tobacco in Cambodia.
- Providing legal updates on ASEAN harmonization issues and regulatory changes involving the pharmaceutical, medical devices, food supplements and cosmetics industries to a global law firm.