Myanmar Foreign Direct Investment: A Review of Current Relevant Laws and Procedures

Joseph Lovell, CEO/CLO, CLMV Capital Asia Ltd. (Cambodia)

Myanmar’s liberalization, large market and continuing economic development has begun to attract increasing numbers of foreign investors from around the world, especially now as the EU, US and other jurisdictions have lifted or significantly eased the former sanctions against the country. At this time, the revised Foreign Investment Law and demand for legal reform is greatly changing the corporate and business law landscape. Because of the newness and continued reforms in these areas and the immaturity and opacity of the legal system there is a great lack of clarity in the legal and investment communities regarding effective regulation processes, procedures, and legal redress.

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USA International Banking & Finance September 2013 Vol. 6, No. 24, Summer 2013

Joseph Lovell

Joseph M. Lovell is a Co-Founder of CLMV Capital Asia, an investment banking boutique focusing on emerging Asia and the Managing Partner for Myanmar of BNG Legal Group (Cambodia). Previously, Joseph served as COO/General counsel for a frontier markets private equity fund management firm, corporate counsel for a Beijing based private equity group, an international attorney specializing in China-US cross border transactions & investment, senior consultant for PricewaterhouseCoopers (Taipei), and as General Counsel/Managing Director for an investment bank with offices in New York and Beijing. He has negotiated and structured numerous international private equity investments in Asia and has played a lead role in the public listing of a number of Chinese companies in the US and UK. Joseph has a BS from Georgetown University (Chinese Language), and MA (Asian Studies) and JD degrees from the University of Hawaii. He is licensed to practice law in New York, Hawaii and Texas.

CLMV Capital Asia Ltd. (Cambodia)

CLMV Capital Asia Ltd. is headquartered in Cambodia and focuses on corporate finance and M&A in the CLMV region (Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, and Vietnam).

USA International Banking & Finance September 2013 Vol. 6, No. 24, Summer 2013