Vietnam

Firm Overview

LNT & Partners (“LNT”) is a market-leading full-service independent law firm based in Vietnam, which focuses on advisory and transactional work in the areas of corporate and M&A, real estate, infrastructure, banking and finance as well as complex and high-profile litigation and arbitration matters. The firm is among Vietnam’s most prominent, having represented a wide range of multinational and domestic clients, including Fortune Global 500 and well-known Vietnamese listed companies.

LNT has set a high benchmark for providing highly innovative and effective legal services. Through our continued success in negotiating complex deals and resolving high-stake disputes, we have been widely recognised for our legal prowess in both transactional and litigation matters.

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

EPLegal started its business in 2009 as a boutique firm specialized in the oil & gas industry. After a few years, we have extended our legal services intensively in support of local Vietnamese and international clients in cross-border commercial transactions, maritime & aviation, banking & financing project, incorporations, dispute resolution & litigation, construction, corporate, M&A and others legal interests.
EPLegal possesses highly qualified lawyers and consultants accredited in Vietnam and England with a normal range of 10 to 20 years of experience in legal and contract related practices. EPLegal is proud of having outstanding dispute lawyers specialized in high value, high stakes, complex litigation and arbitration, with particular expertise in multi-jurisdictional disputes. We are usually involved in early dispute resolution through direct settlement negotiation, mediation or, failing that, litigation or arbitration.

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 negotiate to reach out-of-court agreements and provide 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 32,000 trademark , 18,000 patent and 7,000 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 and Hai Phong, 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 2022) by Managing IP; was winner of the Vietnam Patent Firm of the Year Award (consecutively from 2009 to 2021), the Vietnam Trademark Firm of the Year Award ( 2019-2021) 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 continously from 2016 to 2022.

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.

Awards and Recognitions:

• APAC Insider - South East Asia Business Awards 2021 – Best Business Law Consultancy
• APAC Insider - South East Asia Law Awards 2022 - Best Corporate Law Firm in Vietnam
• AsiaLaw – Vietnam Leading Lawyer/Firm of the Year 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023.
• Asian Legal Business - SE Asia Law Awards 2016 - Managing Partners of the Year
• Asian Legal Business - SE Asia Law Awards 2022: Vietnam Law Firm of the Year & Rising Law Firm of the Year
• Asia Business Law Journal - The A-List: Vietnam’s Top 100 Lawyers of the Year 2020, 2021, and 2022
• Benchmark Litigation - Notable Nomination for Firm/Lawyer of the Year 2020 and 2022
• Chambers and Partners – Vietnam Leading Firms of the Year 2023
• Global Law Experts - Law Firm of the Year 2022
• IFLR1000 – Leading Lawyers of the Year 2015 & 2022
• In-house Community – Nominations for Winners, Honourable and Most Responsive Firm of the Year 2021

Work Highlights:

• Acted as the Vietnam legal advisor for the developer of Fusion Maia Quy Nhon Resort in developing the kit of contracts of sale and rental pool arrangement for this beach-front villas resort.
• Acted as Vietnam legal advisor for the Respondent in an administrative lawsuit on copyright infringement between a subsidiary of a world-class leader US-based in the design and manufacturing of custom blow molds for the plastics industry and a computer software company specializing in the production of product lifecycle management solution. GV Lawyers assisted the Respondent in (i) providing legal advice, (ii) joining the US Legal Team in working out defenses and verifying evidence, (iii) Representing in the mediation at Court.
• Acted as the legal advisor providing legal advice, reviewing/drafting contracts for product sales of a beach-front resort villa complex and condotel project of Ana Mandara in Cam Ranh, Khanh Hoa, with a total area of approximately 29 hectares.
• Advised DL Investment on purchasing stocks of a beach resort at Phu Quoc town. GV Lawyers acted as sole legal advisor for the buyer to buy out stake 45% shares in the target company to implement and develop the investment project of tropical resort on the sea.
• Acted as the sole Vietnamese legal advisor for the successful IPO and Listing on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange of GHW International (Stock Code 9933.HK), an applied chemical intermediates provider in the integrated services market with an established reputation, and a long operating history of over 20 years in the industry.
• Acted as legal advisors for a seller which is shareholder of TTC Green Energy Investment Joint Stock Company (“TTC Energy”), the investor of TTCIZ No. 01 solar power plant located at An Hoi hamlet, An Hoa ward, Trang Bang district, Tay Ninh province, with the capacity of 48 MW, in its transfer of 49% of shares in TTC Energy with a purchaser is Gulf Energy Development Public Company Limited (Thailand).
• Acted as legal advisors for sellers that are shareholders of Mekong Wind Power Joint Stock Company (“Mekong”), the investor of (1) Binh Dai Wind Power Plant with design capacity of 30MW and a projection of capacity development up to 280MW by 2020, and (2) Ben Tre Solar Power Plant with the capacity of 30MW which are located in Ben Tre Province, in their transfer transaction of 49% of shares in Mekong with a purchaser is Grimm Power Public Company Limited (Thailand).
• Acted as sole legal advisor for the seller is National Housing Organisation JSC (N.H.O JSC) in an M&A real estate located at Phu Do Ward, Nam Tu Liem District, Hanoi. In this M&A deal, we played quintessential role in efficiently assisting the seller in setting up the deal structure, deal financial matters and drafting – negotiating for sale and purchase shares agreement and the relevant transactional documents.
• Acted as sole Vietnam legal advisor for the seller in a sale of its full stake for an undisclosed sum in a Singaporean architectural structure design company, the buyer is Tokyu Construction Corporation (TYO 1720:JP) and this is the first overseas takeover deal of Tokyu.

Firm Overview

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