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DUYEN, VO HA
Managing Partner
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Brief Profile
Duyen has been a Partner at VILAF since January 2001 and worked with two American law firms in Ho Chi Minh City and Washington DC prior to joining VILAF.   She has extensive experience in negotiating joint venture agreements, share purchase agreements and shareholders’ agreements in relation to private and public companies as well as resolving joint venture disputes.   She advises on tax planning as part of the structuring of M&A and other cross-border investment and commercial transactions.

Duyen advises a portfolio of multinational groups of companies operating in the petroleum, manufacturing, port operation, health care, hotel and trade industries.

Duyen is a Fulbright alumni and was named in several editions of Marquis Who’s Who in the World.

Admitted
Vietnam, 1997
New York State, 2001

Education
University of Michigan (US), Tax LL.M., with Honours, 2004
Temple University (US), LL.M., 2000, Fulbright scholar
Ho Chi Minh City Law School, LL.B., 1995 
Ho Chi Minh City University of Foreign Languages, BA, 1993

Practices 

Corporate/ M&A, Capital Market, Tax

Energy, Healthcare, Trade & Retail

Experience 

• Multinational investors in negotiating the formation or buyout of many joint ventures with domestic joint venture partners and in the resolution of a joint venture dispute, in the retail sector, real property sector, hospitality sector and petroleum sector;
• KKR in acquisition of shares in Masan Consumer; at US$159 million, it has been Vietnam’s largest private equity deal to date;
• Multinational petroleum groups in the bidding for certain petroleum upstream and midstream assets in Vietnam;
• A Vietnamese conglomerate as issuer in Vietnam’s first Singapore straight bond listing transaction, of US$90 million, in which Credit Suisse was underwriter;
• Multinational petroleum companies in a de-merger of a (production sharing contract) upstream asset and another de-merger of a downstream asset;
• Multinational investors in numerous M&A transactions involving private or public companies in the IT sector, manufacturing sector, hotel development, securities, finance and insurance sector;
• Tax planning and customs issues in relation to foreign contractor contracts, M&A transactions and international trade arrangements; and
• A Japanese investor in relation to the investment in a luxury department store in downtown Ho Chi Minh City.