Linklaters’s Vietnam desk, led by Philip Badge, Amit Singh, Wanwisar Nakarat, and Ying Fu, combines local knowledge with international experience and leverages the firm’s integrated alliance with Australian law firm Allens, with offices in Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi, to advise clients operating in Vietnam in relation to international and Vietnamese legal issues. The team specialises in assisting corporations looking to expand into Vietnam in the projects and energy sector and makes use of strong working relationships with key ECA, DFIs, and commercial banks to advise on project financing. Badge, who leads the firm’s banking offering in Asia, and Singh, a capital markets expert leading operations in South and Southeast Asia, are both based in Singapore. Project finance and M&A specialist Nakarat is managing partner of the firm’s Bangkok office, while Hong Kong-based Fu is an energy and infrastructure expert who is active in the Vietnamese renewables sector.
Key clients
- Actis
- Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited
Work highlights
- Advised Citi on the sale of its six consumer banking franchises in Southeast Asia and EMEA.
- Advise Actis on the acquisition of a majority stake in Levanta Renewables, a Southeast Asia-focused renewables platform with 300MW of onshore wind power projects in advanced development in Vietnam.