Sovathana is one of the Of-Counsels of ANANT Law Firm. Prior to join with ANANT Law Firm, he previously worked for a two-year term as a Deputy Secretary General & Spokesperson of the Bar Association of the Kingdom of Cambodia (BAKC) in 2022-2023. During the same period, he was appointed as a lawyer to the Securities and Exchange Regulator of Cambodia (SERC) and an advisor to the Ministry of Justice. Upon his return from Japan as a fresh graduate, he started his legal career since 2006 as associate legal officer at the Office of Administration, subsequently he had been transferred to the Supreme Court Chamber in the Extraordinary Chambers in the Court of Cambodia (ECCC) and continued until 2009. After leaving the ECCC in 2009, he joints BUN & Associates as a junior and left as a senior manager/ Attorney-at-Law after working for more than 15 years in different areas including banking, financing, and telecommunications & new technology legal practices.

His skills cover complex loan documentation and financing transaction, regulatory approval, licensing, compliance, legal research in new frontier matter, and more importantly strategic market-entry advice. During this period, he met and assisted various clients such as international banks, local established banks and financial institutions, investment firms in handling cases from market-entry to regulatory advice and on-shore and off-shore lending transactions.

Sovathana holds strong professional qualifications with 4 different master’s degrees & 2 bachelor’s degrees focused on Law, Risk Management, Commerce, Banking & Finance, and International Relations from different universities in Cambodia, Japan, and France. In addition to his legal practice career, Sovathana is also currently a full-fledged member of the Council of Jurist, Digital Expert Group, at the Office of the Council of Ministers, a group of senior and professional legal practitioners from lawyers, retired judges, professors and retired government officials with a mandate to assist the governmental agencies in reviewing their respective draft laws and regulations prior to their adoption by the Royal Government of Cambodia. Furthermore, he also works as a part-time law lecturer at the Center for Banking Studies (CBS) of the National Bank of Cambodia (NBC), the Royal University of Law and Economics (RULE), English Language Based Bachelor of Law (ELBBL) and at the National University of Management (NUM) in International Business Law Program.