Vietnam

Firm Overview

Asia Counsel is a well-established and highly regarded law firm with more than 20 Vietnamese and foreign lawyers, including three partners, based in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam’s centre of enterprise. The firm has built an excellent reputation over a decade of on-the-ground experience and excellence. It assists multinational corporations, UK, US, European, Japanese, Chinese and other Asia-Pacific law firms, as well as global, regional and local investment funds, venture capital funds, private equity investors and financial institutions. It also serves an array of high-profile Vietnamese corporations with their full business lifecycle in Vietnam — from market entry and M&A to daily operations and regional expansion.

Firm Overview

Vision & Associates, is a full-service professional firm which together with its legal arm, Vision & Associates Legal, offers a broad range of services.

The members of the Firm, who bring with them the “vision”, are committed to providing comprehensive & high-quality services at reasonable cost to both corporate and individual clients. Vision & Associates is staffed with over 100 lawyers, patent & trademark attorneys and consultants. The Firm is structured into three practice groups, namely Legal Practice, IP Practice and Consulting Practice, which work closely with one another to take advantage of combined knowledge of three practice groups in order to provide comprehensive services to clients. We serve clients in two offices, in Hanoi and in Ho Chi Minh City.

We continue to invest in our people, so that the Firm has the ability to anticipate changes and look to the future, as our name implies.

Firm Overview

VILAF is one of the few large business law firms primarily advising foreign investors and foreign financial institutions making investments in Vietnam. The firm’s team of experienced senior lawyers covers every aspect of businesses and investment laws. VILAF has been consistently ranked as a first-tier law firm by reputable legal editorials including AsiaLaw, ALB, Benchmark Litigation, Chambers & Partners, IFLR 1000, and Legal 500, among others. The firm is well-known for its leading position in Vietnam in cross-border M&A, Banking & Finance, Capital Markets, Dispute Resolution, Real Estate, Power/Energy, Project Finance and Infrastructure Projects.

VILAF has been awarded:

• IFLR – Vietnam National Law Firm of the Year 2006-2008, 2016, 2018, 2020-2022, and 2024
• Chambers and Partners – Vietnam Law Firm of the Year 2022 and 2024
• Asia Business Law Journal – Vietnam Law Firm of the Year 2023 and 2024
• IFLR – Project Finance Deal of the Year 2002, 2016 and 2024
• IFLR – Equity Deal of the Year 2024
• ALB - Equity Market Deal of the Year 2024
• Legal 500 – Vietnam Law Firm of the Year 2023
• Asia Law – Vietnam Firm of the Year 2019-2023
• ALB – M&A Deal of the Year 2023 (Premium)
• In-house Community – Most Responsive Firm of the Year 2021-2023
• In-house Community - Firm of the Year 2021-2023
• ALB – Employer of Choice of the Year 2009, 2010-2014, 2019 and 2023
• Annual Vietnam M&A Forum - Best M&A Vietnam Law Firm of the Year 2015-2020 and 2022; the Law Firm of the Decade (2009-2018); and Best M&A Advisory Firm in Vietnam for the period of 2009-2023
• ALB – Project Finance Deal of the Year 2016, 2019 and 2022
• In-house Community – Honorable Mention in International Arbitration in 2022

Firm Overview

Founded in 1991, Pham & Associates is the oldest and one of the most prominent IP Law firms in Vietnam. With strong practice groups in both IP prosecution and contentious matters, the firm continues to be one of the largest filers in Vietnam and is very experienced in conducting appeal, opposition and invalidation procedures with the National Office of Intellectual Property (NOIP) and related agencies, suing in court to resolve IP disputes or negotiating to reach out-of-court agreements and providing expert opinions on IP matters. Since 2001, the company also provides legal consulting services on business law in Vietnam.

The Staff

With the staff of 110+, including 14 attorneys-at-law, 34 IP attorneys and 30 consultants we work in all technical areas, particularly in chemistry, mechanics, electronics, pharmaceuticals, bio- technology, material science and telecommunications. To date, Pham & Associates has filed in total about 33,000 trademark , 19,000 patent and 7,500 industrial design applications and currently represents nearly 2,000 clients in 40 countries. The firm is also the largest filer of PCT applications designating Vietnam.

Equipped with a self-designed, full-featured docketing software and an updated IP database our attorneys are able to carry out all types of searches, track the status and progress of each file at each stage and report results to clients in a timely manner.

Offices

With a head office in Hanoi and branch offices in Ho Chi Minh, Da Nang our attorneys can respond quickly to clients and meet them face-to-face at their companies to advise and give solutions, particularly when handling IP disputes and infringement cases.

Recent Awards & Ranking

The firm was ranked tier one in Vietnam for patent, trademark prosecution and contentious matters (consecutively from 2008 to 2023) by Managing IP – IP Stars; was winner of the Vietnam Patent/or Trademark Firm of the Year Award (consecutively from 2009 to 2023), by Asia IP.
In Vietnam, trademark "pa Pham & Associates, figure" is recognized as well-known mark and features in the list of the Top 50 Famous Brands in Vietnam continuously from 2016 to 2024.

Firm Overview

Global Vietnam Lawyers is a gathering of dedicated and experienced lawyers poised to become a global-standard Vietnamese business law firm. With its wide range of practices and expertise Global Vietnam Lawyers is the premium choice for providing assistance to domestic and foreign businesses in addressing whatever transactional or dispute issues they may have. Global Vietnam Lawyers has been consistently ranked as a top-tier law firm by reputable legal publications including AsiaLaw, Asian Legal Business (ALB), Asia Business Law Journal, Benchmark Litigation, Chambers & Partners, Global Law Experts, IFLR 1000, In-House Community (IHC) and Legal 500.

Firm Overview

We are a full-service commercial law firm practising in Vietnam. Our clients rely on us to provide them with innovative commercial and legal advice that is of the highest international standard and practical in a Vietnamese context. Frasers provides excellence, experience, innovation, commitment, understanding, and insight. By having internationally experienced and locally qualified lawyers as an integral part of our team, as a firm we are able to advise on Vietnamese law issues to an international standard.

Frasers was the first law firm to receive a foreign law company licence in Vietnam, and we continue to uphold our position as a progressive leader in Vietnam's rapidly developing legal arena. Some senior lawyers within our team have been advising on Vietnam law matters for three decades. Through an integrated team of foreign and local lawyers, we are able to provide a streamlined approach whereby we are able to advise on local law issues, whilst protecting our clients' interests to the highest international standards. Knowing we are only ever as good as the last transaction we worked on, our team does not rest on its laurels and is dedicated to continually raising the firm's standards by developing our skills, challenging the status quo, and finding solutions to complex legal issues in order to achieve the level of technical expertise we are proud to provide to our clients.

We are a diverse and multilingual law firm. The talent, skills, and experience of our integrated team enable us to carefully cater to each of our clients' specific legal needs, whether they relate to Vietnamese and/or international law issues.