Vanseka has around twelve years of experiences in legal practices specialized in financial laws, commercial practices, investment laws and arbitration. As a previous central bank lawyer, Vanseka used to assist the National Bank of Cambodia in liquidating banks as well as drafting resolution law. In name of the lawyer for private clients, she has assisted her clients especially banks in litigating against the borrowers for debt recovery.

She started her legal career as an associate in the real estate practice group at a regional law firm based in Cambodia with the focuses on land concession, co-owned and multipurpose buildings’ developments. Over there, she assisted clients in obtaining economic land concessions, sub-leasing the concession rights, preparing land holding structures for two international malls and drafting legal documents for a co-owned building invested by a foreign listed company.

With her interest in finance and innovation, she later joined the central bank of Cambodia as an in-house counsel to assist the bank in drafting prudential, banking supervision and payment regulations. She also assisted the bank in launching the central bank’s financial instruments, inter-bank market development and blockchain payment system. She took lead in drafting deposit insurance and special resolution legislations for banking and financial institutions in Cambodia.

Later on, she joined another regional law firm based in Cambodia as a senior associate in banking cross cutting capital market practice groups. On project basis, she has participated in some missions of the International Monetary Fund (“IMF”) as the expert for advising on public financial management and drafting relevant laws and regulations in other countries. She was also a consultant for the Royal Government of Cambodia and the World Bank in cross cutting reforms in area of public administration, public financial management, legal and justice and decentralization.

At Sethalay Law Office, Vanseka has been assisting the competent authorities in conducting research and drafting regulation on financial technology, consumer protection, universal health coverage and competition. Moreover, she has also advised and assisted the clients in market entries especially for financial sector, investment sector and aviation. Vanseka has also assisted clients in drafting, reviewing and negotiating over the legal documents for business and financial transactions including organizational structures, technology transactions, real estate agreements and investment agreements. Moreover, she has also involved in the exercise of merger and acquisition and initial public offering of several companies.