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Phan Anh Vu

Phan Anh Vu

Work Department

Inward Investment / Mergers & Acquisitions / Corporate & Commercial / Securities & Capital Markets

Position

Phan Anh Vu is a partner and leads a legal team at Indochine Counsel from its establishment in 2006. He has over 19 years of legal advisory and business consulting experience in Vietnam, specializing in inward investment, mergers & acquisitions, corporate & commercial, and property & construction. He also has significant experience with securities, project financing transactions, mining & energy, and insolvency & restructuring.

Prior to joining Indochine Counsel, he worked as an associate and deputy legal manager for a major local law firm, Vision & Associates (2004-2006). He began his career as in-house counsel for 7 years at a large State-owned company (28 Corporation / AGTEX), operating in the fields of garment & textile, fuel petrol and real estate.

With in-depth knowledge of business law, Vu has advised and acted as a legal counsel in a number of investment projects and commercial transactions for some major foreign and local investors in Vietnam, including Gimpex Limited, Vietnam Alliance Minerals, Hoan My Medical Corp, Victoria Healthcare, ILA Vietnam, Raffles Education, HR2B Vietnam, Turner & Townsend, Sumitomo Electric Device Innovations, Chevron Lubricant Vietnam Ltd., Truong Hai Auto Corporation (THACO), Savico Corporation, Golden Pig JSC, Saigon Paper, Trung Nguyen Group, Triumph Vietnam, Vietfund Management, Dong A Fund Management Corp, Southern Bank, Gulf Developers, Guthrie GTS Limited, and ZarubezhEnergoProekt Europe Ltd.

He is a regular contributor to legal journals such as Asian-Mena Counsel, and has also written extensively on business law topics for business newspapers in Vietnam. He has also been a local contributor for “Doing Business Project – Vietnam” of World Bank from 2007.

He has successfully completed the CEDR Training Course (a six-day course) and has been certified as a CEDR Accredited Mediator. The training course organized by CEDR, the largest conflict management and resolution consultancy in the world with the collaboration of the Ministry of Justice, IFC Vietnam and VIAC (Vietnam International Arbitration Centre) in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

Languages

English and Vietnamese

Memberships

Ho Chi Minh City Bar Association International Bar Association Inter-Pacific Bar Association LawAsia

Education

LLB, Ho Chi Minh City National University, 1997 BA (English), Ho Chi Minh City University of Human & Social Studies, 2001 BA (Business Administration), Ho Chi Minh Economic University, 2003