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Ms Tram Ho

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Position

Ho Thuy Ngoc Tram is a Partner based in Frasers’ Ho Chi Minh City office. Tram’s key areas of practice include corporate and M&A, renewable energy, infrastructure, banking and finance, and project finance.

Career

Tram has more than 14 years of experience practising corporate and commercial law, with particular emphasis on energy, infrastructure, and large-scale projects, banking and finance (including project finance), real estate, TMT, e-commerce, mergers and acquisitions, 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 is a member of the Ho Chi Minh City Bar Association and is fluent in both English and Vietnamese. Tram has a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Law in Ho Chi Minh City and a Master of Commercial Laws from the University of Melbourne, Australia.

Tram regularly handles large and complex multi-jurisdictional transactions, sophisticated legal issues, and negotiations on a broad range of transactional and contentious matters. Tram is also a go-to advisor for industry leaders in the energy, manufacturing, infrastructure, FMCG, and services sectors, among numerous others, particularly on billion-dollar financing projects of renewable energy projects. Tram is recognised as Rising Star in Vietnam in 2022, 2023 and 2024 by The Legal 500 Asia Pacific and was nominated for Rising Star of the Year in Corporate and M&A in the 2023 Legal 500 Southeast Asia Awards.

Languages

English; Vietnamese

Education

Tram was the first and only person in the history of the Ho Chi Minh City University of Law who received the highest results in the entrance examination and subsequently graduated as the first-ranked student (with the highest overall GPA) of the same school as well as obtained the highest score on their thesis. Tram also won the prestigious Endeavour Postgraduate Award, granted by the Australian Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations, and has successfully read a Master of Commercial Laws degree from Melbourne Law School, the University of Melbourne, Australia during 2012-2013. While studying in Australia, Tram also worked as a research assistant for various projects led by the Director of the Asian Law Centre, Melbourne Law School, and has represented Melbourne Law School to speak at the Vietnam Legal Studies Graduate Workshop held by Monash University.