Asia Counsel Vietnam Law Company Limited

Firm Details 

Asia Counsel is a dynamic international corporate and commercial law firm dedicated to serving clients in Vietnam. We love being lawyers. We set out to practice law as it was meant to be: as trusted, frank and reliable advisors. We have our clients' interests at heart and work closely integrated with them. We aim to be the leading law firm in Vietnam committed to helping clients achieve their business strategies and providing outstanding legal services.

Our partners are seasoned lawyers in Vietnam with extensive experience working with investors in Vietnam. Our partners have advised a diverse array of clients across various sectors including globally recognised entities like ADB, Morgan Stanley, Warburg Pincus, and CVC Capital Partners, renowned giants such as LEGO, Sojitz Corporation, and Sumitomo Corporation, and extended our expertise to both large Vietnamese companies and startups.

The principal partners of the firm are Minh Duong, Managing Partner, Justin Gisz, Partner and Phong Nguyen, Partner.

Main Areas of Practice 

Our main practice areas in Vietnam include the following:

• Mergers & acquisitions and transactional work
• Power, renewables, and infrastructure
• Banking and finance
• Capital markets and securities
• Corporate and commercial
• Employment
• Private Equity
• Real estate and construction
• TMT

International Work

A list of representative works done by our partners is below:

• A Chinese environmental management corporation regarding a USD195 million and a USD200 million term facilities for a 75MW waste-to-energy power station in Hanoi developed by its Vietnam-based subsidiary.
• CVC Capital Partners on its investment in a majority stake of Vietnam-based Phuong Chau Trade and Investment JSC, the operator of the Phuong Chau-branded maternal and infant care hospitals in southern Vietnam.
• Cerberus Capital on the Vietnam aspects of its acquisition of National Dentex Labs, a provider of dental prosthetics and restorative dentistry products.
• Credit Guarantee and Investment in relation to the Facility Guarantee of VND2.33 trillion (approximately US$100m) dual-tranche fixed rate bonds issued by Hoan My Medical Corporation.
• Harbinger on its investment in and financing of the USD 4bn Ho Tram Casino Project.
• ibVogt and Daylight on the development of the 700MW Lutaco 2 solar project in Vietnam.
• JWD Infologistics Public Company, a Thai-listed company on its acquisition of Transimex Corporation, a Vietnam-listed logistics company.
• Kim Healthcare Corporation Group on its USD24,000,000 series B financing round from ABC World, a Temasek-backed fund.
• LEGO with the establishment of its USD 1 billion manufacturing facility in Vietnam.
• SLP on the establishment of the USD1.1 billion Vietnam Logistics Development Fund.
• Sembcorp on its acquisition of a 115MW portfolio of rooftop solar assets in Vietnam.
• Shareholders of Pacific Hospital on its 100% sale to Heliconia Capital, a Singapore-based healthcare fund. Pacific Hospital owns two hospitals in central Vietnam.
• Singapore Medical Group Limited on its acquisition of CityClinic, a chain of polyclinics in Vietnam.
• Sowitec on its sale of a 550MW development pipeline of wind and solar projects in Vietnam to Iberdrola.
• Sojitz on the acquisition of interests in industrial parks and a chain of warehouses in Vietnam.
• Tam Tri Medical Joint Stock Company on the USD25 million strategic investment by Vincapital Opportunity Fund.
• Techtronic Industries on setting up a $650m electronic appliance manufacturing facility in Vietnam.
• The Blue Circle on the acquisition of a majority interest in a Vietnamese wind park developer with the development permit to develop a wind power project in Binh Thuan Province, Vietnam.
• The owners of American International Hospital (AIH) on the strategic partnership between Raffles Medical Group (RMG) and AIH in which RMG acquires a majority stake in AIH and enters into a management service contract.
• Vestas on the turbine supply and installation agreement and O&M agreement for the 50 MW Tra Vinh 1 Project and the 48MW Tra Vinh 3 Project in Vietnam.

Offices

Our office is located on Level 9, Deutches Haus, 33 Le Duan Boulevard, District 1, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.