GC Summit Vietnam 2023

The Legal 500 is delighted to formally announce the inaugural GC Summit Vietnam, taking place on 28th February 2023 in Ho Chi Minh City.

GC Summit Vietnam looks at Vietnam on the world stage and how GCs and senior in-house lawyers are coping with the legal and business challenges that domestic and international companies based in Vietnam are faced with.

In association with our partners for this event, Frasers Law Company, Tilleke & Gibbins, Russin & Vecchi, Dentons LuatViet, Nishimura & Asahi, ASL Law Firm & Gulapa & Aguila LLLC; the event will include a series of panel sessions covering a variety of cutting edge and up to date topics for discussion.

This includes understanding and overcoming data privacy challenges, managing international disputes, IP & brand protection, adapting to a new M&A landscape, the rise of legal tech, regional project finance, the growing importance of ESG and overcoming labour and employment issues.

Drawing on the vast experience of our highly accomplished speakers, this event will provide practical, hands-on advice to all in-house counsel. It is a must-attend event for any in-house counsel in Vietnam who are aiming to reach the next level of their professional development.

Agenda

12.00-1.00pm Light Lunch & Registration

1.00pm-1.10pm Opening Remarks

Legal 500 GC Powerlist editor Joe Boswell will introduce the day’s festivities before handing over to our keynote speaker, Cathay United Bank’s Legal affairs head Thuy Tran. Thuy will speak about some of the challenges and opportunities facing in-house counsel in Vietnam to set the tone for the Summit.

• Joe Boswell, head of research: GC Powerlist Series, The Legal 500
• Thuy Tran, legal affairs head, Cathay United Bank

1.10pm-2.00pm M&A in Vietnam: Current trends, market outlook, and deal execution

In this session, an expert panel helmed by Frasers Law Company managing partner Mark Fraser will interrogate the current and future M&A Landscape in Vietnam, outlining the legal requirements, overall business climate and pathway to a successful deal.

• Mark Fraser, managing partner, Frasers Law Company
• Justin Gisz, partner, Frasers Law Company
• Thao Cung, general counsel, VinaCapital
• Hao Tran, head of legal, BW Industrial Development JSC
• Nguyen Thi Tu Trinh, senior legal manager, Sembcorp

• Hao Tran, head of legal, BW Industrial Development 

2.00pm–2.20pm With the rise of technology, is it now harder to protect your brand? What are the best practice benchmarks for trademarks, anti-counterfeiting, licensing, and due diligence? 

What are the best practice benchmarks for trademarks, anti-counterfeiting, licensing, and due diligence? In this presentation, Tran Thi Ngoc Linh, Senior Partner at Dentons LuatViet, will provide the audience with a thorough overview of brand protection requirements in Vietnam, and give a roadmap for successfully shepherding a market-leading brand.

• Tran Thi Ngoc Linh, Senior Partner, Dentons LuatViet

2.20pm-3.10pm Potential impacts of Vietnam’s personal data protection regulations, and the paths to privacy compliance

Vietnam’s upcoming Decree on Protection of Personal Data and New Law on Personal Data Protection are set to consolidate data protection regulations in Vietnam in the next 12-18 months. This panel sees Nishimura & Asahi partners Ha Hoang and Tomonobu Murata investigate what the codification of these new requirements will mean for businesses in Vietnam.

• Ha Hoang Loc, partner, Nishimura & Asahi
• Tomonobu Murata, partner, Nishimura & Asahi

3.10pm-3.25pm Coffee Break

3.25pm-4.25pm Ignite Session – The Legal 500 Lightning Talks

Three presentations on key hot topics facing in-house counsel in Vietnam

4.25pm-5.15pm Practical tips on dispute resolution in Vietnam for foreign parties 

As an in-house lawyer, your job is often to get ahead of issues and prevent them from turning into costly litigation. However, this is not always possible. How do you try to prevent problems from developing, and what do you do when faced with a looming dispute? This panel session, overseen by Tilleke & Gibbins, will discuss best practice for foreign entities involved in a dispute in Vietnam.

• Loc Xuan Le, principal, T&G Law Firm
• Duc Anh Tran, associate, T&G Law Firm
• Michelle Thuy-Ngoc Thai, general counsel, INSEE Vietnam
• Han Le, legal director (Vietnam & Indochina), Pfizer

5.15pm-5.45pm Placing the focus on project finance

Project finance provides a whole new host of possibilities for getting major projects over the start line. It is, however, a hugely complex endeavour, requiring high level risk identification to be conducted and byzantine solutions such as special purpose entities to be set up in order to operate. In this fireside chat, Mark Fraser, Nguyen Mai Phuong and Ho Thuy Ngoc Tram will discuss the ins and outs of this multi-faceted subject.

• Nguyen Mai Phuong, senior associate, Frasers Law Company
• Ho Thuy Ngoc Tram, senior associate, Frasers Law Company
• Mark Fraser, managing partner, Frasers Law Company

5.45pm-5.50pm Closing remarks

• Joe Boswell, head of research: GC Powerlist Series, The Legal 500

5.50pm-8.00pm Drinks and Canapés and event concludes

Speakers

Thuy Tran, legal affairs head, Cathay United Bank

Thuy is the Vietnam legal affairs head of Cathay United Bank (CUB), a member of Cathay Financial Holdings (CFH) having strong presence in Vietnam with CUB, Cathay Life, Cathay Insurance and Indovina Bank. CFH is the first Taiwanese financial holding company offering holistic financial products, including life insurance, property insurance, and banking services in Vietnam.

Thuy does not only look at legal perception, as she has a broader view of how things work and legal actually covers a lot more than just a very narrow framework. That said, she is playing an important role at CUB in its expansion in Vietnam and its extensive and ambitious projects to be launched locally and regionally.

Prior to joining CUB, Thuy headed legal affairs at Maybank and was a legal counsel at BNP Paribas. She was previously a banking & finance associate at Baker & McKenzie Vietnam.

Thuy’s external and internal legal expertise and experience along with her business-oriented and solution-focused mindset have been well noted in the in-house counsel community. She is also a member of the In-house Counsel Club (under HCMC Bar Association).

Mark Fraser, managing partner, Frasers Law Company

Mark has been advising clients on transactions in Vietnam since 1994. In 2004, he founded Frasers Law Company, the first law firm to obtain a foreign law company licence in Vietnam.
In the 20+ years that Mark has been based in Vietnam, Mark’s practice has focused on corporate matters, especially mergers and acquisitions, banking and finance, restructuring and insolvency, commercial real estate transactions, and infrastructure projects. This involves debt and equity structuring of investment projects and the preparation and negotiation of documents. Mark has been involved in numerous power generation, water treatment, road tollway, telecommunications, and oil and gas projects in various jurisdictions within Asia and has advised on a plethora of Vietnamese matters in the banking and finance, corporate and commercial, infrastructure, capital markets, property development and dispute resolution areas.
Mark’s international legal expertise and in-depth knowledge of Vietnam, as much from a legal perspective as commercially, are well renowned, and he is ranked as a top tier lawyer practising in Vietnam by publications such as The Legal 500 Asia Pacific.

Justin Gisz, partner, Frasers Law Company

Justin is a mergers, acquisitions and corporate advisory law specialist, who advises investment funds (PE, VC, public, and institutional) as well as corporate investors and high-net-worth individuals, across a diverse range of industry sectors in connection with their investment and business activities in Vietnam.
During his 14 years of practising law in Vietnam, Justin has also developed high levels of experience and expertise in other key areas of law, including capital markets, real estate, construction, technology, media, telecommunications, intellectual property, and employment law.
Justin is held in high esteem in the Vietnam legal market not only for his technical excellence, but also for his commercial sense and inherent pragmatism. Having spent nearly five years as an in-house general counsel for a large multi-national conglomerate in addition to his experience as a private practitioner, Justin offers depth and breadth of commercial understanding that are unparalleled in the legal profession in Vietnam.

Tran Thi Ngoc Linh, Senior Partner, Dentons LuatViet

Ms. Linh is the senior partner in charge of the Hanoi office of Dentons LuatViet. She is an accomplished lawyer with rich hands-on experience whose practice focuses on foreign investment, corporate, merger and acquisition, banking and finance, and real estate. She has successfully worked on and advised multifarious national and multinational corporations and entrepreneurs, providing innovative solutions to address their legal issues and reserve their rightful interests.

Linh has extensive experience and resounding success in mergers and acquisitions. She regularly advises FDI clients on these transactions. One of her most valuable deals was representing a leading bank in China in a credit facility of hundreds of USD million to a top-tier Vietnamese developer of a thermal power project in Vietnam.

Among her accolades, she was named “UN Women Gender Responsive Procurement Project (Pro Bono) – Vietnam” for her selfless dedication to gender equality and women’s empowerment by UN Women. The World Bank Group also recognized Linh for contributing to the “Doing Business” report for four consecutive years (2019-2022).

Ha Hoang Loc, partner, Nishimura & Asahi

Ha Hoang Loc is Vietnam Partner with more than 12 years of experience in mergers and acquisitions, real estate, labor, finance and banking, antitrust, general corporate and all aspects of investment and licensing in Vietnam.

Mr. Loc joined Nishimura & Asahi (Ho Chi Minh City Office) in July 2012. Before that, he spent more than 8 years with other foreign and domestic law firms in Vietnam. He has assisted clients in many large-scale cases, including, among others, an acquisition of shares in a public pharmaceutical company in Vietnam, transactions acquiring shares in a public construction company, an acquisition of shares in a digital retailer listed in Vietnam, and bidding by a client for development of a real estate project in Ho Chi Minh City.

Mr. Loc has assisted many well-known Japanese investors in investments worth hundreds of millions of US dollars in finance lease, real estate development, and steel manufacturing businesses in Vietnam. He has advised a number of giant Japanese companies in conducting their business in Vietnam, and has also given lectures to clients’ employees in relation to anti-corruption matters, and has advised clients in carrying out product recall procedures in Vietnam.

Tomonobu Murata, partner, Nishimura & Asahi

Specialized in IT or IP-related transactions, disputes, and regulatory matters including data protection matters in Japan and South East Asian countries.

Since 2010, Tomonobu has been continuously handling transactions, disputes, and regulatory matters related to IT technology or IT industry, intellectual property matters including measures against counterfeit products, and data protection matters concerning personal data or trade secret. He also has abundant knowledge on cybersecurity practice and is registered as a registered information security specialist (national qualification in Japan).

After studying in the U.S. and the U.K., he moved to Vietnam and then Thailand. Since then, he has been involved in the above-mentioned matters not only in Japan but also in Vietnam, Thailand, Singapore, Indonesia, and other Southeast Asian countries. While there are few Japanese lawyers in Southeast Asia who specialize in the above-mentioned matters, he supports international companies by utilizing both his abundant knowledge and practical experience in the above-mentioned matters and his local experience and network in Southeast Asia.

Katrina Aguila, resident managing partner, Gulapa & Aguila LLLC

Katrina Aguila is resident managing partner at Gulapa & Aguila LLLC, leading the firm’s Vietnam team in Ho Chi Minh City. Katrina has a wealth of experience advising clients in robust areas of Vietnamese law, including corporate law, foreign direct investments, mergers and acquisitions, real estate and disputes. Prior to joining Gulapa & Aguila LLLC, Katrina worked at a leading Vietnamese law firm as a foreign associate.

Sesto E Vecchi, partner, HCMC Office, Russin & Vecchi

Sesto has over 35 years of experience practicing law in Vietnam. His expertise includes corporate and commercial law with particular emphasis on foreign investment. He acts for numerous multinational and mid-size investors, both foreign and Vietnamese. He has written and spoken extensively on Vietnamese legal issues. Sesto is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, was an arbitrator for the Vietnam International Arbitration Center, and a former active-duty lieutenant in the US Navy.

Joe Boswell, head of research: GC Powerlist Series, The Legal 500

Joe Boswell has been a part of The Legal 500’s editorial team, specialising on the in-house legal community, for more than six years. He now heads the GC Powerlist team, acting as chief editor for the over 40 separate editions of the GC Powerlist series which serve as The Legal 500’s flagship title celebrating the world’s top in-house counsel.

During the course of researching for the GC Powerlist series, Boswell has interviewed a vast number of world-renowned general counsel, chief legal officers, and legal directors about overcoming the challenges they face, their legal innovations, and how they see the general counsel role progressing in coming years. As well as this, he is a regular speaker at Legal 500 summits, roundtables, award ceremonies and other events, and often writes in-depth reports on business and legal issues.

Boswell is an alumnus of both the University of Sussex in The United Kingdom and the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen in The Netherlands.

Loc Xuan Le, principal, T&G Law Firm

With over 15 years of experience in IP enforcement, LocXuan Le has cultivated strong relationships with Vietnamese authorities including the court, market control, inspectors, the police, customs, and People’s Committees of various levels. He has organised and overseen raids for leading clients in the pharmaceutical, automotive, high-tech and luxury goods industries and frequently represents clients before the court. He also advises clients on technology transfer, IP licensing, and franchising matters.

Loc has secured several groundbreaking wins in patent infringement cases for major international pharmaceutical and agrochemical companies. In 2014, he obtained the highest award of attorney’s fees in the history of Vietnam on behalf of a U.S. ink cartridge printer company

Loc sits on the executive board of the Vietnam Intellectual Property Association, and is a member of the INTA Unfair Competition Committee and the APAA Design Committee. He also serves as a visiting professor at some of Vietnam’s top universities and regularly publishes on IP matters.

Duc Anh Tran, associate, T&G Law Firm

Duc Anh Tran is an associate with T&G Law Firm, a licensed law firm and IP agent that partners with Tilleke & Gibbins for local IP filings and litigation in Vietnam. Based in the Hanoi office, Duc assists with forming strategies and preparation for litigation and arbitration cases in various complex areas, including aviation, energy, construction, insurance, and trade.

Duc assists in implementing the recognition and enforcement of foreign arbitral awards and advises on commercial matters. His practice also extends to intellectual property matters, notably in copyright, franchising, licensing and domain name disputes. Duc earned an LLM from the Queensland University of Technology and currently serves as a visiting lecturer at some of Vietnam’s top universities.

Thao Cung, general counsel, VinaCapital

Thao Cung has over 30 years of corporate and M&A legal experience in both Asia and the U.S.  Cung joined VinaCapital in 2009 and is the Deputy Managing Director / General Counsel.  He practiced for 6 years with Baker & McKenzie in their Hong Kong and San Francisco offices from 1993 to 1998 where he handled private placements, corporate securities advisory, software licensing, Vietnam licensing and joint venture formation.  He has also served as corporate counsel at The Clorox Company, where he was responsible for Clorox’s licensing and M&A in Asia.  Immediately prior to joining VinaCapital, Cung was associated with Tilleke & Gibbins in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City from 2008 to 2009, where his corporate and commercial practice included company formation, joint venture planning, franchising registration, banking and general Vietnam in-bound investment advice.   Cung holds a B.A. in Economics from the University of California at Berkeley, a J.D. from the Harvard Law School, and an Executive M.B.A. from the University of Hawaii at Manoa.

Oliver P. Baclay, JR., lawyer, Gulapa Law

Oliver practices intellectual property law both in New York and in the Philippines and leads the intellectual property practice of the firm. 

Nguyen Tien Hoa, senior partner, ASL Law Firm

Nguyen Thi Tu Trinh, senior legal manager, Sembcorp

Hao Tran, head of legal, BW Industrial Development JSC

Michelle Thuy-Ngoc Thai, general counsel, INSEE Vietnam

Michelle Thuy-Ngoc Thai is a Vietnamese counsel with a diversified background with international exposure (including an MBA and LLM from US and EU-based universities, along with working experiences in Vietnam, Cambodia & China), extensive expertise with international environment (including over nine years with an international law firm, over ten years as Country Legal and/or Compliance Head at leading global corporations in pharmaceuticals, medical devices, FMCG/consumer goods, construction/industrial, energy, infrastructure, commercial finance/consumer finance and media), comprehensive knowledge about Vietnam/Southeast Asia business and legal environment as well as US/EU compliance standards, strong skills in legal risk analysis and compliance management, business oriented mindset and integrity spirit.

Han Le, legal director (Vietnam & Indochina), Pfizer

Han Le is a corporate and IP expert with extensive experience in the legal industry. She began her career at Hogan Lovells, where she spent seven years advising clients on a wide range of corporate and IP matters. After joining Rouse in Ho Chi Minh City, Han focused on IP commercial/enforcement and corporate/commercial matters. She worked with clients at all stages of their development, providing legal guidance on everything from initial creation to contracts, licensing, employment, and legal matters. In 2014, Han joined Pfizer as the Country Legal Lead for Vietnam. She quickly rose through the ranks to become Legal Director for Vietnam and Indochina in mid-2019. At Pfizer, Han has put her corporate and IP expertise to good use, especially during the busy period that came with the company’s Covid vaccine rollout, she successfully managed the legal aspects of Pfizer‘s Covid vaccine rollout in Vietnam.

In addition to her law degree from Ho Chi Minh City University of Law, Han Le has also completed advanced coursework in corporate law through the Japanese Association for Overseas Technical Scholarship. This international experience has further enhanced her credentials and deepened her understanding of cross-border legal issues, enabling her to provide effective guidance to clients operating in a global marketplace.

Nguyen Huu Minh Nhut, partner, Russin & Vecchi

Nhut has experience in international business and multi-jurisdictional transactions. His practice focuses principally on M&A, private equity, international finance, and inbound foreign investment in general. Nhut has been involved in a number of large transactions in which he has acted for multinational clients to provide solutions to structure and to implement the transaction. He has particular experience in structuring complex M&A deals that require creative structures of share acquisition in light of existing legal restrictions and ambiguities. He has led the Russin & Vecchi team in various large-scale transactions, including comprehensive, non-conventional due diligence investigations, deal structuring, transaction documentation, performance of conditions precedent and rectification of due diligence issues, funding structures and funding documentation, closing coordination, and post-acquisition integration.

Dao Hong Diu, senior associate, Russin & Vecchi

Diu joined Russin & Vecchi in 2008 upon graduation from law school. Her core areas of practice are corporate and foreign investment. She specialises in foreign based, long-term employee incentive plans sometimes called employee stock option plans (“ESOPs”), offered to employees in Vietnam. She has an interest in the regulation of anti-money laundering as it impacts corporate compliance responsibility in both the financial and non-financial sectors.

Nguyen Mai Phuong, senior associate, Frasers Law Company

Nguyen Mai Phuong has more than 15 years of experience practising corporate and commercial law, with particular emphasis on large-scale project financing, mergers and acquisitions, inward investment, corporate governance, and capital markets. Prior to joining Frasers, she worked for an international law firm and a US-UK-based firm in their Ho Chi Minh City offices.

Phuong has assisted numerous investors and lenders in relation to their investment in Vietnam in renewable energy, infrastructure, and TMT sectors. She has also assisted local developers, borrowers, and sellers in Vietnam in their divestment or fundraising in Vietnam.

Phuong is qualified in Vietnam, England, and Wales and is fluent in both English and Vietnamese.

Ho Thuy Ngoc Tram, senior associate, Frasers Law Company 

Ho Thuy Ngoc Tram has more than 11 years’ experience practising corporate and commercial law, with particular emphasis on large-scale project financing, real estate, TMT, e-commerce, mergers and acquisitions, inward investment, corporate governance, and debt and equity capital markets in Vietnam. Prior to joining Frasers, she worked for a large commercial bank in Ho Chi Minh City, focusing on various cross-border banking transactions. Tram regularly handles large and complex multi-jurisdictional transactions, sophisticated legal issues and negotiations on a broad range of transactional and contentious matters. In addition, Tram also advises industry leaders in the FMCG, energy, manufacturing, infrastructure, and services sectors, among numerous others. Tram is a member of the Ho Chi Minh City Bar Association and speaks both English and Vietnamese.

Hao Tran, head of legal, BW Industrial Development

Ms. Tran’s core responsibility at BW is to lead the legal department, covering operations, corporate finance, investments, and fundraising. With her intensive knowledge in M&A deal structuring, due diligence, documentation drafting & negotiations, and monitoring portfolio companies, Ms. Tran regularly works with local and foreign investors, financing partners, tax advisors, external lawyers, bankers, licensing consultants, managements of both government and non-government companies and government officials. 

Prior to joining BW, Ms. Tran worked as an in-house counsel at one of Vietnam’s leading real estate development and investment management firms. Before that, she worked for a major private equity investment management firm in Ho Chi Minh City. Ms. Tran has completed more than 50 transactions with the total transaction value of approximately USD1.5 billion.  

In addition to her attorney license from Vietnam Bar Federation, Ms. Tran holds a master’s degree in public policy from the Fulbright University Vietnam, a scholarship program provided by Harvard Kennedy School for Vietnamese government officials and selective candidates from the private sector. 

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Frasers Law Company (Frasers) is the premier independent commercial law firm in Vietnam. Through an integrated team of international and local lawyers, we deliver top-notch legal advice on Vietnamese law matters to an international standard. We are the trusted advisor of choice by leading international and Vietnamese companies in relation to their business and investments in Vietnam and have consistently been recognised as being in the top tier of law firms in Vietnam by leading independent guides to law firms such as The Legal 500.

Frasers is the first law firm to receive a foreign law company licence in Vietnam, and we continue to uphold our position as a progressive leader in Vietnam’s rapidly developing legal arena. We are a diverse and multilingual law firm, and through the collective skills and experience of our team, we are able to cater to each of our client’s specific legal needs, whether they relate to Vietnamese and/or international law issues. The firm is culturally diverse and benefits from the integrated and cutting-edge expertise of its team of local and expatriate lawyers. Frasers understands the legal, commercial, political and regulatory issues that affect businesses in Vietnam, and aims to provide comprehensive legal services to assist clients navigate these complex issues and achieve outstanding business outcomes.

Russin & Vecchi was founded in Asia over 50 years ago to serve emerging economies. It had an office in Vietnam from 1966 to 1975. Its Vietnam practice reopened in Ho Chi Minh City in 1993, and its office in Hanoi opened a year later. Cumulatively, it has over 35 years’ experience operating in Vietnam. With its long history and experience in Vietnam, it frequently acts as special counsel to international law firms whose clients have transactions in Vietnam.

Russin & Vecchi’s Vietnam practice serves both Vietnamese and foreign clients investing, financing, and providing services in Vietnam. The firm advises clients on alternative structures available to operate in Vietnam; assisting them to set up; and, more importantly, advising on ongoing legal issues which arise as a result of operating within the country. In addition to its corporate practice, Russin & Vecchi has an active M&A, banking and finance, capital markets, real estate, infrastructure, tax, employment law, intellectual property and other practice areas. In Asia, Russin & Vecchi also has offices in Thailand and Taiwan.

Dentons LuatViet (formerly LuatViet) is one of the most reputable Domestic law firms in Vietnam, with an outstanding reputation as a leader in Litigation and Arbitration, Mergers and Acquisitions, and Corporate and Investment. It is one of only a handful of global law firms capable of offering clients full-service legal counsel and business solutions in Vietnam, having more than 20 years’ experience advising some of the biggest multinational and local enterprises in Vietnam.

Launching as Dentons LuatViet in 2022, the firm has more than 40 legal professionals serving clients from offices in Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi and positios the combined firm to serve clients in a key emerging economy of the ASEAN region.

Nishimura & Asahi is Japan’s largest law firm, covering all aspects of domestic and international business and corporate activity. We established our Ho Chi Minh City office in 2010 and our Hanoi office the following year, and provide a full range of quality services. Our firm’s attorneys provide a full range of quality services concerning corporate activities of Japanese, Vietnamese or other non-Japanese companies.

Our expertise is unparalleled within the region due to our unique position as the first Japanese law firm to establish and maintain a permanent presence in Vietnam. Our consulting activities with local government agencies on legal policy, and an ongoing seminar series on local economic development issues for our clients, are just a couple of examples of our commitment to strengthening economic ties between Japan and other Asian countries.

Having now established ourselves firmly in Vietnam, we are able to provide our clients with services they can rely on, grounded in years of experience in the mature business markets, and with vision, to help chart their future course through the young and rapidly expanding investment markets of Asia.

Gulapa & Lim (Gulapa Law) was established by Aris L. Gulapa in September 2015. From a complement of 6 lawyers, Gulapa Law now has a total of 36 legal staff and a presence in Manila, Cebu, New York and San Francisco. In 2022, Gulapa Law further strengthened its presence in Southeast Asia by establishing an office in the emerging city of Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam, under Gulapa & Aguila LLLC, which will be led by its Resident Managing Partner, Katrina Aguila.

Gulapa Law’s Vietnam team will be comprised of seasoned Vietnamese and foreign lawyers with demonstrated experience in robust areas of Vietnamese law, including corporate law, foreign direct investments, mergers and acquisitions, real estate and disputes. Central to Gulapa Law’s Vietnam office’s operations is the commitment to support clients in navigating the legal and practical complexities of doing business in Vietnam. To that end, the team ensures that particular attention is paid to bridging communication gaps and an applied understanding of jurisdiction-specific nuances.

Tilleke & Gibbins is a leading Southeast Asian regional law firm with over 200 lawyers and consultants practicing in Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam. The firm provides full-service legal solutions to the top investors and high-growth companies that drive economic expansion in Asia. Established in Bangkok in 1890, Tilleke & Gibbins has since grown into the largest independent law firm in Thailand and a leading international firm across Southeast Asia due to its commercial focus, local knowledge, and extraordinary service.

Tilleke & Gibbins has been present in Vietnam since 1992, when it became the first foreign law firm in the country to be granted a license to establish a representative office. Now one of the largest and most well-known law firms in Vietnam, with offices in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, Tilleke & Gibbins provides a full range of corporate legal services in the areas of commercial transactions and M&A, labor and employment, real estate, technology, franchising, and more. The firm’s award-winning intellectual property practice, widely recognized by global surveys and directories as one of the best in the country, advises clients on IP registration, enforcement, and commercialization.

Tilleke & Gibbins also works with local partner T&G Law Firm LLC (TGVN), a fully licensed Vietnamese law firm and IP agent, for filings with Vietnam’s Intellectual Property Office, as well as litigation in Vietnamese courts. Through its partnership with TGVN, the firm team is able to advise clients on case strategy when disputes arise, and then provide representation in court.

ASL Law is a leading full-service Vietnamese law firm made up of experienced and talented lawyers. Based in both Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, the firm’s main purpose is to provide the most practical, efficient and lawful advice to its domestic and international clients. ASL Law was established by LLM Lawyer Pham Duy Khuong, who is the managing partner and founder. Since 2012 Pham Duy Khuong has been ranked as a leading lawyer in Vietnam by The Legal 500 and ASIA LAW. Due to his contribution to the legal field in Vietnam, Pham has been awarded and recognised by both the Australian and US governments.
As ASL Law has expanded it has recruited lawyers not only from Vietnam but also experienced lawyers from around the region. The firm can assist in providing legal services and conduct business investments in 22 countries and provides intellectual property advice to clients throughout 72 countries. Some of these countries include Singapore, China, Laos, Cambodia, Myanmar, Hong Kong, USA, Australia, Indonesia, Taiwan, and EU nations. ASL Law is the best choice for foreign clients doing business in Vietnam and Vietnamese enterprises doing business overseas.

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