Managing Partner

Mr. Chheav Satthia is the Founder and Managing Partner of Amara Law Firm, which was restructured from C H L Law Office in early 2024 to expand and enhance its legal services. Prior to founding Amara Law Firm, he practiced law for over six years, gaining extensive experience across a broad range of legal fields.

Satthia specializes in Real Estate and Construction, Commercial Law, Corporate Law, Intellectual Property, Securities, and Family Law. He also handles civil, commercial, and corporate litigation, criminal litigation, and cross-border legal matters involving Cambodian jurisdiction.

He holds an Executive Master’s Degree in International Business Law (LL.M.), with honors, from the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium, and the Royal University of Law and Economics (RULE), Cambodia.

Satthia earned his Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) from RULE and completed the Japanese Law education program at the Nagoya University Research and Education Center for Japanese Law in Cambodia.

He also holds a qualification in Commercial Arbitration from the National Commercial Arbitration Centre (NCAC) of Cambodia.

Satthia has been a licensed member of the Bar Association of the Kingdom of Cambodia (BAKC) since 2019.

In addition to his legal practice, Satthia serves as the Deputy Director of the Law and Justice Program of the Union Youth Federations of Cambodia (UYFC), Phnom Penh, and as Vice President of the Volunteering Lawyers Group affiliated with the Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning, and Construction (MLMUPC). In this capacity, he actively contributes to the drafting and review of laws and regulations, including the Land Law and other related legal instruments, with the objective of proposing them for adoption by the Government and subsequent enactment by the legislature of the Kingdom of Cambodia.

He is also an adjunct lecturer teaching law at university.

He is fluent in Khmer, English, and Japanese.