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About

The firm:

Asia Counsel is a well-established and highly regarded law firm with more than 20 Vietnamese and foreign lawyers, including three partners, based in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam’s centre of enterprise. The firm has built an excellent reputation over a decade of on-the-ground experience and excellence. We assist multinational corporations, global, regional and local investment funds, venture capital funds, and their managers, private equity investors and financial institutions in relation to their investment and business activities in and in relation to Vietnam. We also act for an array of high-profile Vietnamese corporations with their full business lifecycle in Vietnam — from market entry and M&A to daily operations and regional expansion.

Asia Counsel is a fully independent law firm and frequently works both as lead and Vietnam local counsel with many leading international UK, US, European, Japanese, Chinese and other Asia-Pacific law firms.

Our partners are seasoned lawyers in Vietnam with extensive experience working with investors in Vietnam. All of our partners and senior lawyers have impeccable top-tier international law firm pedigree.

In our M&A and Energy practice groups, our team frequently acts for many high-profile investors, such as ADB, Morgan Stanley, Warburg Pincus, CVC Capital Partners, VinaCapital, Sojitz Corporation, Sumitomo Corporation, TotalEnergies, Constant Energy, SkyX Solar, The Blue Circle, Clime Capital Management, and many others.

Areas of practice:

Our main practice areas include the following:

  • Mergers & acquisitions and transactional work
  • Power, renewables, and infrastructure
  • Banking and finance
  • Capital markets and securities
  • Corporate and commercial
  • Employment
  • Private Equity
  • Real estate and construction
  • Technology