Mergers & Acquisition
Our M&A team is comprised of lawyers who have experienced global cross-border M&A transactions and M&A experts who have deep insights of the Vietnamese market, its nature and its business environment.
The firm represents foreign investors entering the Vietnamese market such as private venture capitalists, equity investors, private equity sponsors, individual investors and domestic companies receiving investments, in a wide variety of private equity transactions, including buyouts, early and late-stage venture investments, restructuring and re-capitalizations, assisting clients with full complements of legal and business services through the most efficient approach to their transactions and a smart project management process that enables the team to maintain excellence and control costs whilst performing in a responsive working manner.
Particularly, our service in the Mergers & Acquisitions is as follows:
- Consulting on accessing to market and target company;
- Consulting on preparation for M&A;
- Advising legal framework, structure for the whole transaction;
- Conducting legal due diligence & risk management;
- Drafting and advising on transaction documents, contracts including sale and purchase agreements and shareholders/joint venture - members agreements and negotiating deals;
- Advising on tax, labor law and other legal ramifications;
- Dealing with local government agencies in order to obtain necessary approval/licenses, clearances or authorizations;
- Advising on professional restructuring after M&A;
- Advising on financial arrangements (fundings/investment capitals...);
- Providing in-house counsel service & company's secretarial service;
- Other services upon specific requirements;
Mergers & Acquisition
Our M&A team is comprised of lawyers who have experienced global cross-border M&A transactions and M&A experts who have deep insights of the Vietnamese market, its nature and its business environment.
The firm represents foreign investors entering the Vietnamese market such as private venture capitalists, equity investors, private equity sponsors, individual investors and domestic companies receiving investments, in a wide variety of private equity transactions, including buyouts, early and late-stage venture investments, restructuring and re-capitalizations, assisting clients with full complements of legal and business services through the most efficient approach to their transactions and a smart project management process that enables the team to maintain excellence and control costs whilst performing in a responsive working manner.
Particularly, our service in the Mergers & Acquisitions is as follows:
- Consulting on accessing to market and target company;
- Consulting on preparation for M&A;
- Advising legal framework, structure for the whole transaction;
- Conducting legal due diligence & risk management;
- Drafting and advising on transaction documents, contracts including sale and purchase agreements and shareholders/joint venture - members agreements and negotiating deals;
- Advising on tax, labor law and other legal ramifications;
- Dealing with local government agencies in order to obtain necessary approval/licenses, clearances or authorizations;
- Advising on professional restructuring after M&A;
- Advising on financial arrangements (fundings/investment capitals...);
- Providing in-house counsel service & company's secretarial service;
- Other services upon specific requirements;


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pro.Phan Van Truong

Pro. Phan Van Truong was former Vice President of Strategy and Business of Alstom Power Group - the world's leading corporation in electricity and railway technology, cum President (Asia) of Alsthom Group, Vice President in charge of sales of TGV (high-speed rail) and metro projects, cum General Director of Alsthom-Tramway Company, cum Sales Director of InterInfra Company ( French Corporation to build a global metro project); Asia President of Suez Group, the world's leading group in construction and operation of water/electricity/gas and environment industries; Chairman of the General Director of Lyonnaise-des-Eaux-South East Asia cum Chairman of Lyonnaise des Eaux-VietNam BOT Company specializing in the production and distribution of filtered water; President of Wah-Seong Vietnam; International Director of SGTE - a French Consulting Company specializing in traffic (metro, port, railway...).
As an engineer and entrepreneur, he had participated in a numerous of giant projects of Metro Bangkok, Jakarta, Manila, Lagos, Cairo etc. Port policy of the Fiji Peninsula (Pacific), and consulted many French private enterprises (SETRA-SETEC-OTH-SEMA METRA International) specialist in urban transport, urban planning, construction of upper/infrastructure, in international and French projects, travelled for business in 80 countries, worked and negotiated contracts in 30 countries. Has resided in England, Fiji, Brazil, Singapore and Malaysia, managed several international teams from various countries (French, British, German, Belgian, Thai, Indonesian, Korean, Chinese, Vietnamese, Spanish, Brazilian…), and has extensively cooperated with Japanese shoshas and Korean chaebols.
As a professor, he was a Graduate Lecturer at Panthéon-Sorbonne 1 University in Paris on Regional Planning and Urban Economics, and Lecturer in Economics at the University of the Pacific. From 2005 up to now, he has been contributing as a graduate lecturer at Ho Chi Minh City University of Architecture, a lecturer at many public and private universities (National Academy of Public Administration, Polytechnic, Technology, Hoa Sen, FPT University, Ton Duc Thang University..) con't