Tilleke & Gibbins
A leading player in the corporate formation and licensing space, Tilleke & Gibbins assists established businesses and start-ups to navigate the Vietnamese market through experienced practitioners and a strong regulatory proficiency underpinning advice. Beyond this area of work, the team are active on cross-border M&A, joint ventures, and corporate restructuring mandates, with notable excellence in the life sciences, pharmaceuticals, energy and consumer goods and retail sectors. Managing director Thomas Treutler leads the team and has a broad practice, including advising on foreign investment and regulatory requirements for market entrants. Kien Trung Trinh has a wide sector focus and boasts a strong year liaising with multinational corporations and service providers over the entire transactional piece. Experienced practitioner Nguyen Ngoc Bich Tram joined the group from YKVN in November 2022, bringing a wealth of expertise in M&A, capital markets, and property-related directives. Vinh Quoc Nguyen left the practice in February 2023 to join Indochine Counsel as senior counsel.
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Testimonials
Collated independently by Legal 500 research team.
‘The T&G team in Vietnam is pragmatic and understands the intricacies of running a business in the Vietnamese market.'
‘Kien Trung Trinh is a no-nonsense practitioner, who is focused on getting the job done efficiently and fairly. The approach is results-oriented and pragmatic.’
Key clients
- Alcon
- Crown Equipment
- Ferrero
- FMC Corporation
- Invisalign/Align Group
- Jabil Circuit
- Johnson & Johnson
- Lenovo
- Merck Sharp & Dohme
- Servier
Work highlights
- Serving a secondment at Invisalign Vietnam to fill the role of in-house counsel and assist their regional counsel with all legal matters in Vietnam.
- Serve as lead external counsel on all legal matters in Vietnam for MSD, providing daily advice on corporate licensing, drug advertisement, sales promotions, changes in the pharmaceutical law and their impact on MSD’s business, etc.
- Assisted a global power and renewable energy business with legal due diligence into eight different energy companies/projects in Vietnam for all aspects of the project companies which revealed certain critical issues related to land, compliance with environment laws.
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Thomas Treutler, Tram Ngoc Bich Nguyen, Kien Trung Trinh