General counsel | Unilever Vietnam
Lâm Vũ Thao
General counsel | Unilever Vietnam
Based on your experience, what is the key to collaborating successfully with business partners?
The key lies in trust, authenticity, and transparency with all.
Which political, economic or regulatory changes have impacted your work the most in the past year?
The introduction of the personal data protection regulations required us to do massive work to ensure compliance. Social commerce trends required us to acquire new knowledge and skills while at the same time developing guardrails to protect the company from new risks.
How do you motivate and manage the other members of your legal team well?
By being authentic. Lots of changes happened during the past year. We need to stay close to the team now more than ever, listen to their concerns attentively and address those concerns in an authentic way, help them to navigate changes.
General counsel, Vietnam and personal care Southeast Asia | Unilever
Head of legal, patents and compliance | Bayer
Vietnam-based Lam Vu Thao is the head of legal, patents and compliance for the Vietnamese entity of multinational pharmaceutical company Bayer. His responsibilities include oversight of legal issues for the...
Head of legal, patents and compliance | Bayer
Leading global pharmaceutical Bayer specialises across healthcare, agriculture and high-tech polymer materials. With over 15 years’ private practice and in-house experience combined, Lam Vu Thao heads the Vietnam business’s legal...