Southeast Asia - Vietnam

Duane Morris Vietnam LLC

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Duane Morris Vietnam LLC is roundly praised by clients for its profound legal knowledge, attracting foreign investment instructions from a multitude of regional and continental players, as well as transatlantic conglomerates. The team handles a considerable volume of public and private M&A in addition to land and development site acquisitions, capital restructuring and financing, joint ventures, and the full regulatory piece. Sector engagement over the past twelve months has been largely centred on manufacturing, healthcare, TMT, hospitality, and energy. Nguyen Thi Lang and Oliver Massmann co-lead the practice, with the former well regarded for her adeptness in corporate governance, foreign investment, and competition law, and the former for his renewables, utilities, and digital infrastructure transactional knowledge. Hoang Minh Duc is an integral adviser to the firm’s growing list of start-ups, working on both the fundraising and investment side.

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Testimonials

Collated independently by Legal 500 research team.

  • ‘Duane Morris Vietnam has provided our company with the best quality of professional legal services which is a combination of factors including listening to our needs, fully understanding our intentions, requirements and strategy.'

  • ‘Nguyen Thi Lang is an outstandingly experienced attorney with excellent academic qualifications. She makes us impressed in her practice areas to give us valuable advice from legal perspective and practical perspective with her, amongst other, negotiation skills, creative initiatives and problem-solving skills.'

  • '‘The team is super talented with impressive teamwork skills. Duane Morris Vietnam has consistently stayed ahead of the ever-changing legal landscape within the market industry.'

  • ‘Nguyen Thi Lang is not only professional, thorough, and patient, but she is a skilled negotiator. I would undeniably recommend Nguyen Thi Lang and unequivocally state that I will continue to seek her services for the coming years.’

  • ‘The entire team comprise individuals who are the experts in the country in the field of corporate and M&A. Working with Duane Morris Vietnam is a good choice for our business operation in Vietnam.'

  • ‘We have the opportunity of working with Nguyen Thi Lang who is especially impressive to us and indeed we choose Duane Morris given that we trust her management.'

Key clients

  • Bayer Vietnam
  • GAW NP Capital
  • SAINT-GOBAIN
  • A.P.U Educational Company Development

Work highlights

  • Advised Bayer Vietnam on various legal matter relating to their business in Vietnam, including M&A activities.
  • Assisted GAW NP Capital with its acquisition of target land and development of the construction of ready-built-factory in the economic zone in Northern Vietnam.
  • Assisted Saint-Gobain in relation to various major and important M&A and corporate projects in Vietnam. SGV VICO Project is one of the major and important projects for Saint-Gobain involving the acquisition of the state-of-art gypsum manufacturing facilities in Quang Tri province, the Central of Vietnam.

Lawyers

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Nguyen Thi Lang, Oliver Massmann

Other key lawyers

Hoang Minh Duc