VILAF advises a broad range of domestic and international issuers, underwriters and arrangers in a wide variety of capital market transactions, and the group is particularly experienced in matters involving IPOs on international and domestic exchanges, acquisitions of controlling shareholdings in public companies, equity capital market products, as well as debt capital markets for acquisition financing and debt restructuring. The group is co-led by Duyen Ha Vo in Ho Chi Minh City who is experienced in a broad range of complex capital markets transactions, and Tran Phong in Hanoi who is an expert in banking and finance, M&A, capital markets, and infrastructure and energy. Dang Anh in Hanoi and Tung Nguyen in Ho Chi Minh City are also key contacts for capital markets mandates.
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Key clients
- J&T Global Express Limited (J&T Express)
- SCG Décor Public Company Limited (SCGD)
- Growtheum Capital Partners
- ANT Group
- BAF Vietnam Agriculture Joint Stock Company
- Black Spade Acquisition Co
- Citigroup Global Markets, Morgan Stanley, Credit Suisse, J.P. Morgan Securities and Bank of America
- Vingroup
Work highlights
- Advised J&T Global Express Limited, a global logistics service provider, to list on the Main Board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange with the Public Offer Price of HK$ 12.00 per Offer Share, with net proceeds from the Global Offering amounting to HK$ 3.528 billion. This deal is awarded as the Equity Deal of the Year 2024 by IFLR and ALB.
- Advised the arrangers and Black Spade Acquisition Co in connection with the successful closing of US$23 billion SPAC combination and the Nasdaq listing of Vietnam EV maker VINFAST (VFS).
- Advised SCG Décor Public Company Limited (SCGD) as an Issuer in its US$543 million IPO on The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) which is successfully closed on 20 December 2023.
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Duyen Ha Vo, Phong Tran