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About

GLOBAL VIETNAM LAWYERS (GV LAWYERS) is a law firm of international reach with a group of dedicated and well experienced lawyers who have started and advanced their careers with the most distinguished law firms in Vietnam.

Our board of partners includes Mr Nguyen Gia Huy Chuong – a Managing Partner, and Mr Luong Van Ly – a Senior Advisor and other Partners such as Mr Dinh Quang Thuan, Mr Tran Thanh Tung, Mr Le Quang Vy, Mr Nguyen Duc Hieu, Ms. Nguyen Van Quynh, and Mr Hoang Quoc Nhat Trung. Those who are respected lawyers and advisors and are highly recommended in demand legal practice areas for their contributions to the great success of so many clients over the past 20 years. In addition, Mr Luong Van Ly is a veteran government official and incumbent arbitrator at the Vietnam International Arbitration Center.

Our legal staff consists of more than 60 senior associates, associates and para-legal officers altogether. It is growing fast given the increasing demand for our service. Our partners, senior associates and associates are seasoned attorneys-at-law while our para-legal officers are graduates from law schools, to be approved as qualified attorneys-at-law by the Ministry of Justice and the National Bar Association in accordance with the laws. Such pooling together of senior and junior staff is the best blessing a law firm may be granted. It enables us to couple wisdom and impetuosity, experience and innovation, subtleness and aggressiveness for our clients’ best gratification. GV Lawyers is operating across the country, mainly from its 03 offices in Ho Chi Minh-City, Ha Noi and Da Nang.

To accompany the rapid economic expansion and meet the expectations of a growing and diversifying clientele GV Lawyers’ range of practices covers both transaction and litigation in as diversified matters as tax, labour and employment, merger and acquisitions, real estate, infrastructure, marine and shipping, intellectual property, trade, investment, education, civil matters to name a few.

We are strongly committed to serving our clients, both local and foreign, with the best expertise in Vietnam’s laws and in line with the globally accepted standards of involvement, professionalism, and moral probity. Our ultimate target is making Vietnam a safer place for them to make money. To our business partners we pledge loyal and long-term cooperation in order to achieve the jointly determined targets.

We are proud of the professional achievements of each member of our team and trust that we are the best advisors and counsels you may have.

Areas of practice

  • Commercial Arbitration
  • Civil matter
  • Internal Investigation & Corporate Governance
  • Corporate Restructuring
  • Data Protection & Privacy Advisory
  • Inbound/Outbound Investment
  • Intellectual Property
  • Infrastructure
  • Labour & Employment
  • Litigation & ADR
  • Maritime & Shipping
  • Merger & Acquisition
  • Real Estate & Construction
  • Tax

Awards & Recognition
asialaw

Leading Law Firms in the Years of 2021, 2022, 2023.
Ranked Firm 2024 in Corporate and M&A and Dispute Resolution.

Asian Legal Business
Vietnam Law Firm of the Year 2022 & Rising Law Firm of the Year 2022.
ALB Asia M&A Rankings 2022, 2023, and 2024.
Ranked Firm in Asia Top 50 list 2023 - Top 10 law firms in Vietnam.
Fast 30 - ALB Asia Fastest Growing Firms 2023.

APAC Insider
Best Business Law Consultancy of the Year 2021 and Best Corporate Law Firm 2022.

Benchmark Litigation
Notable Law firm of the Year 2020, 2022, 2023.
Leading Firms of the Year 2023.
Benchmark Litigation Asia-Pacific Award 2024 in Commercial and transaction, International arbitration and Labor and employment.

Chambers & Partners
Leading Firms in Vietnam 2023 for Employment practice.
Chambers Asia-Pacific Legal Guide 2024 for practice of Corporate/M&A and Employment.
Chambers Global Guide 2024 for practice of Corporate/M&A.

Global Law Experts Annual Awards
Corporate Law Firm of the Year in Vietnam & Dispute Resolution Law Firm of the Year in Vietnam – 2022.

IFLR1000
Ranked Firm 2023 in Project Development
Ranked Firm 2024 in Mergers & Acquisitions and Project Development

In-House Community
Winners, Honourable and Most Responsive Domestic Law Firm of the Year 2021.
Winner - A Litigation and Dispute Resolution Law Firm of the Year, 2022; and Honourable mentions for (A) An Anti-trust /Competition Law Firm of the Year, 2022 – Vietnam, and A Restructuring & Insolvency Law Firm of the Year, 2022 – Vietnam.
Firm of the Year, 2023 in Real Estate/Construction.

Languages

  • English
  • Vietnamese

Memberships

  • Member of Association of European Lawyers
  • Member of Singaporean Business Association in Ho Chi Minh City
  • VBLC - Vietnam Business Lawyers Club
  • IBA - International Bar Association
  • Member of Hong Kong Business Association in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
  • Member of the Commonwealth of Australia Trade Commission in Vietnam
  • Member of the Nordic Chamber of Commerce in Vietnam
  • Commercial Arbitrator and Mediator, HTA Commercial Arbitration Center
  • Associate Member, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (UK)
  • Member of American Chamber of Commerce of Hanoi
  • Member of the Euro Chamber of Commerce of Hanoi
  • YBA - Young Businesspeople Association of Ho Chi Minh city,