Leopard Capital allegedly sank seafood firm

In Sihanoukville, just north of Cambodia’s only deep-water port, stands the headquarters of Chenla Seafood.

A uniformed guard stands watch at the gate, which opens on to manicured grounds and a two-building facility that houses what will likely become the country’s premier seafood processor.

A few kilometres up the hill and away from the water lies the former plant of Nautisco Seafood Manufacturing, which once held the mantle soon to be captured by Chenla. …

And the link between the rise of the first and the collapse of the second, according to Nautisco Seafood’s majority shareholders, is Leopard Capital, the Kingdom’s bellwether private-equity firm. …

Tom Brennan and Don Weinland
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