Join us at The Legal 500's GC Summit Vietnam 2024 on February 29th! LNT & Partners is proud to be a sponsor, offering a presentation on data protection.
The Summit invites the most esteemed in-house counsel from the country’s most prolific companies, and leading practitioners to discuss their changing roles as in-house leaders and the challenges, issues and opportunities they are set to face in 2024 and beyond.
Our presentation, led by our lawyers and General Counsel Le Anh Tuan from FWD Insurance, will provide attendees a comprehensive understanding of regulations, key requirements, compliance frameworks, and best practices. From data collection and processing to cross-border data transfers, participants will learn how to effectively safeguard information while navigating regulatory complexities. At a time when countries are tightening up their data protection frameworks, this session is essential for in-house counsel who oversees the care of customer data.
Join us at The Legal 500's GC Summit Vietnam 2024 on February 29th! LNT & Partners is proud to be a sponsor, offering a presentation on data protection.
The Summit invites the most esteemed in-house counsel from the country’s most prolific companies, and leading practitioners to discuss their changing roles as in-house leaders and the challenges, issues and opportunities they are set to face in 2024 and beyond.
Our presentation, led by our lawyers and General Counsel Le Anh Tuan from FWD Insurance, will provide attendees a comprehensive understanding of regulations, key requirements, compliance frameworks, and best practices. From data collection and processing to cross-border data transfers, participants will learn how to effectively safeguard information while navigating regulatory complexities. At a time when countries are tightening up their data protection frameworks, this session is essential for in-house counsel who oversees the care of customer data.
12.30pm -1.00pm: Registration & Refreshments
1.00pm – 1.10pm: Opening Remarks
Legal 500 GC Powerlist editor Joe Boswell will introduce the day’s festivities before handing over to Hong Le of GSK, who will speak about some of the challenges and opportunities facing in-house counsel in Vietnam, to set the tone for the Summit.
1.10pm – 2.00pm: Pressing issues facing general counsel in 2024 – How to survive!
In this must-watch discussion, a mixed panel of senior in-house counsel and distinguished Tilleke & Gibbins lawyers will share their opinions on the general counsel role’s evolution in the coming year, and what legal advisors will need to know to support their businesses in the most effective way possible. Data privacy, managing a legal budget, cost control, the transformative effects of generative AI: all and more will be interrogated by this expert panel in a wide-ranging conversation. Helmed by Tilleke & Gibbins’ Michelle Ray-Jones (partner and director of the firm’s Vietnam offices) and Chuyen Hong Huu Le (partner), the conversation will examine both in-house and external advisor viewpoints thoroughly as prevailing challenges of 2024 and beyond are analysed – whether Vietnam-specific or global.
2.00pm – 2.20pm: Practical guidance on sensitive employee terminations – Mutual, Unilateral, and Litigated.
Guided by Russin & Vecchi’s seasoned partner Nguyen Huu Minh Nhut, the audience for this session will gain invaluable insights into navigating the complexities of terminating employees with sensitivity and legal acumen. Delving into nuanced scenarios across the full gamut of employee termination situations, the presentation will offer actionable strategies throughout, allowing you to manage such issues ethically and effectively in the future while preserving company reputation.
2.20pm – 3.10pm: ESG in Vietnam: The journey of sustainable development and Vietnam’s rising role in the global economy
As Vietnam continues to grow as a dynamic force in the global economy, its path and policies toward sustainable development becomes increasingly significant. In this session our panel will delve into how Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) principles are expected to be a critical factor and business drivers for local and international companies alike. We will also explore the unique opportunities and challenges that Vietnam faces in integrating ESG practices within its industries and the broader implications for international investors’ and businesses’ legal teams.
3.10pm – 3.25pm: Coffee Break
3.25pm – 3.45pm: Topic TBC – Presented by ASL Law Firm
3.45pm – 4.05pm: How general counsel manage risk – Presented by Asia Counsel Vietnam
Featuring an all-star lineup, this discussion will take an elevated view of risk management for the modern general counsel. As well as liaising with the C-suite and marshalling resources to prevent crises before they develop, panellists will also discuss what to do when the unfortunate occurs.
4.05pm – 4.55pm: An overview of data protection requirements. What does good practice look like?
In this presentation, attendees will gain a comprehensive understanding of data protection regulations in Vietnam, tailored specifically for in-house legal teams and designed to bring their work to the next level. Our expert panel, featuring a strong contingent from LNT & Partners and a highly accomplished in-house lawyer in Le Anh Tuan, will dissect key requirements, compliance frameworks, and best practices. From data collection and processing to cross-border data transfers, participants will learn how to effectively safeguard sensitive information while navigating regulatory complexities. At a time when countries the world over are tightening up their data protection frameworks, this session is essential for in-house counsel who oversee the care of customer data.
4.55pm – 5.15pm: In conversation with…
5:15pm – 5.45pm: Banking & Finance: the Vietnam Outlook in 2024
This freewheeling session will see three highly qualified individuals examine the length and breadth of Vietnam’s hugely dynamic financial scene from their various perspectives. Tram Ho of Frasers will provide the private practice perspective, while Yin Ee Ong and Thuy Tran will give their view from their corporate vantage points. Key developments on the business and legal sides will be dissected, and predictions made for the rest of the year. A must-watch for any corporate legal counsel.
5:45pm – 7.00pm: Networking Drinks
Mark Fraser, managing partner, Frasers Law Company
Mark has been advising clients on transactions in Vietnam since 1994. In 2004, he founded Frasers Law Company, the first law firm to obtain a foreign law company licence in Vietnam.
In the 20+ years that Mark has been based in Vietnam, Mark’s practice has focused on corporate matters, especially mergers and acquisitions, banking and finance, restructuring and insolvency, commercial real estate transactions, and infrastructure projects. This involves debt and equity structuring of investment projects and the preparation and negotiation of documents. Mark has been involved in numerous power generation, water treatment, road tollway, telecommunications, and oil and gas projects in various jurisdictions within Asia and has advised on a plethora of Vietnamese matters in the banking and finance, corporate and commercial, infrastructure, capital markets, property development and dispute resolution areas.
Mark’s international legal expertise and in-depth knowledge of Vietnam, as much from a legal perspective as commercially, are well renowned, and he is ranked as a top tier lawyer practising in Vietnam by publications such as The Legal 500 Asia Pacific.
Sesto E Vecchi, partner, HCMC Office, Russin & Vecchi
Sesto has over 35 years of experience practicing law in Vietnam. His expertise includes corporate and commercial law with particular emphasis on foreign investment. He acts for numerous multinational and mid-size investors, both foreign and Vietnamese. He has written and spoken extensively on Vietnamese legal issues. Sesto is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, was an arbitrator for the Vietnam International Arbitration Center, and a former active-duty lieutenant in the US Navy.
Nguyen Huu Minh Nhut, partner, Russin & Vecchi
Nhut has experience in international business and multi-jurisdictional transactions. His practice focuses principally on M&A, private equity, international finance, and inbound foreign investment in general. Nhut has been involved in a number of large transactions in which he has acted for multinational clients to provide solutions to structure and to implement the transaction. He has particular experience in structuring complex M&A deals that require creative structures of share acquisition in light of existing legal restrictions and ambiguities. He has led the Russin & Vecchi team in various large-scale transactions, including comprehensive, non-conventional due diligence investigations, deal structuring, transaction documentation, performance of conditions precedent and rectification of due diligence issues, funding structures and funding documentation, closing coordination, and post-acquisition integration.
Joe Boswell, global editor - Powerlist Series, The Legal 500
Joe Boswell has been a part of The Legal 500’s editorial team, specialising on the in-house legal community, for more than seven years. He now heads The Powerlist team, acting as chief editor for the over 40 separate editions of the GC Powerlist series which serve as The Legal 500’s flagship title celebrating the world’s top in-house counsel, as well as Global Editor for The Legal 500’s Private Practice Powerlist Series.
During the course of researching for the GC Powerlist series, Boswell has interviewed a vast number of world-renowned general counsel, chief legal officers, and legal directors about overcoming the challenges they face, their legal innovations, and how they see the general counsel role progressing in coming years. As well as this, he is a regular speaker at Legal 500 summits, roundtables, award ceremonies and other events, and often writes in-depth reports on business and legal issues.
Boswell is an alumnus of both the University of Sussex in The United Kingdom and the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen in The Netherlands.
Minh Duong, managing partner, Asia Counsel Vietnam
Minh is the Managing Partner of Asia Counsel Vietnam. Minh has been advising clients in Vietnam for more than 12 years. He is admitted in the New South Wales Supreme Court and High Court of Australia. He has worked on major banking and finance in Vietnam. His clients include Dragon Capital, VietJet, Ho Chi Minh City Securities Corporation, Insurance Australia Group, Pharmacity, Mekong Capital, Vina Capital, and Sequoia Capital. Minh is fluent in English and Vietnamese.
Yin Ee Ong, head, group legal, compliance and risk management, Warisan TC Holdings
Yin Ee takes on a huge set of responsibilities for Warisan TC Holdings, a conglomerate with main activities in automotive, machinery, travel, car rental and consumer products. As well as being general manager and head of group legal, compliance and risk management, she also functions as the group integrity officer and sustainability liaison officer. Alongside legal and regulatory advice, she is a trusted advisor on the Group’s activities both in Malaysia and abroad, particularly in the areas of risk management, sustainability, and anti- bribery and corruption.
Yin Ee has over 20 years of working experience in private practice, financial and automotive industries. Prior to working with Warisan, she was with Tan Chong Motor Holdings, OCBC Bank (Malaysia), Hong Leong Financial Group and Bank. She has international experience, having worked at Hong Leong Bank Vietnam for eight years and supported Hong Leong Bank’s investment in China.
Duc Tran, chief legal and compliance officer, Home Credit Vietnam
Duc is the Chief Legal & Compliance Officer at Home Credit Vietnam, a leading digital finance company in Vietnam. Holding the position since 2017, Duc is managing both the Legal and Compliance team, providing legal advice across all aspects of the business and operation as well as ensuring the compliance of the company with regulatory and internal policies.
Before Home Credit Vietnam, Duc had 10 years of experience at YKVN with his practice focused on banking, finance, capital markets, and M&A.
Hao Tran, head of legal, BW Industrial Development JSC
Ms. Tran leads the legal and compliance team at BW Industrial Development JSC, where she oversees the group’s activities encompassing acquisition, construction, operation, financing, fundraising, and corporate governance.
Prior to her role at BW, Ms. Tran served as a legal counsel for prominent real estate development and private equity firms in Ho Chi Minh City. With nearly 15 years of experience in in-house legal counseling, she has adeptly managed a wide array of tasks, including mergers and acquisitions, logistics, project financing, real estate development, and the establishment of investment funds. Her collaborative efforts with a diverse array of professionals, such as local and international investors, bankers, lawyers, and government officials, have culminated in the successful execution of over 50 transactions, collectively valued at more than USD 1.5 billion. Before her in-house counsel roles, Ms. Tran honed her legal expertise over eight years at various law firms, both Vietnamese and international, providing her with a robust skill set to address a range of legal matters for her clients.
Ms. Tran is a licensed legal practitioner in Vietnam and holds a Master’s degree in Public Policy from Fulbright University Vietnam, which she obtained through a prestigious scholarship program aimed at select Vietnamese government officials and private sector individuals.
Michelle Ray-Jones, partner and director, Vietnam, Tilleke & Gibbins
Michelle Ray-Jones is a partner and the director of Tilleke & Gibbins’ Vietnam offices. She is an experienced practitioner in intellectual property and corporate and commercial law, and has been advising and assisting investors in Southeast Asia since 2014.
As an expert in international IP protection, commercialization, and enforcement, Michelle has handled legal matters for clients in a broad range of industries, including hospitality, entertainment, music, fashion, and consumer products. She has served as a strategic advisor to international clients in Southeast Asia, as well as to ASEAN clients expanding outward toward other parts of the world, and regularly assists with IP due diligence exercises, IP commercialization strategies, and local and international IP protection and enforcement. Her many years guiding clients in Southeast Asia—particularly Vietnam, Thailand, and Cambodia—informs her strategic advice on complex global and regional IP and corporate strategies.
Chuyen Hong Huu Le, partner, Tilleke & Gibbins
Chuyen Hong Huu Le is a partner in the corporate and commercial group of Tilleke & Gibbins’ Ho Chi Minh City office. Chuyen frequently handles matters related to labor and employment, foreign investment, corporate services, hospitality, and commercial transactions and M&A. Chuyen has particular expertise in the sectors of healthcare (including pharmaceuticals, medtech and consumer health) and consumer products, where she has advised many top multinational companies on doing business in Vietnam. She also has extensive experience in the aviation sector, and assists clients with aircraft leasing/financing, aircraft-related interest registrations, and repossession.
Nguyen Anh Tuan, partner, LNT & Partners
Dr. Anh Tuan Nguyen is a partner in charge of the firm’s Corporate practice group. Leading multinational companies in the pharmaceutical, FMCG and consumer goods industries regularly seek Dr. Nguyen’s expert advice in matters concerning importation, distribution, sales and antitrust. He leads a team specialized in the healthcare sector and antitrust.
Dr. Nguyen has been singled out for his work in the healthcare practice in Vietnam by Asialaw for being “very knowledgeable of the healthcare industry as well as the local environment.” In corporate and antitrust matters, he advises client in various issues including Greenfield investment, M&A, corporate restructuring, filing for clearance and compliance trainings, along with specific experience in commercial dispute settlements. Dr. Nguyen is recognized by the legal community as one of the few qualified competition law experts in Vietnam who has an in-depth understanding of international antitrust regulations and their application under Vietnamese Competition Law.
Nguyen Xuan Thuy, partner, LNT & Partners
Mr Thuy, with over 14 years of experience in legal practice, is a Partner at LNT & Partners. He has successfully advised a number of foreign investors, domestic companies and regulatory agencies in Vietnam on mergers and acquisitions, corporate, labor and real estate law.
Furthermore, Mr Thuy also achieved the Best Graduation Thesis on competition law after graduating from Ho Chi Minh City University of Law. He is frequently sought after for comments on drafts of legal regulations for investment law, enterprise law and planning law. Mr. Nguyen is also a contributor for Vietnam Investment Review, Vietnam News, Global Legal Insights, IFLR, Inhouse Community and other international legal magazines.
Le Net, partner, LNT & Partners
Le Net is the partner in charge of Singapore office of LNT & Partners. He is also in charge of financial services, infrastructure and arbitration practice group of the firm. In 2019 and early 2020, Net has been leading in a number of signature deals and cases, including: representing PetroVietnam in working with Nghi Son Refinery, acting for a number of subway construction projects in both Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, representing lender in a 8-bank syndication deal from China to Vietnam, representing Vingroup in a major M&A transaction, representing major renewable energy companies in wind power and solar power projects, winning an ICC construction arbitration case for Vietnam Expressway Corporation.
Net received his LL.B from Warsaw University in 1996, an LL.M from KU Leuven in 1997 and went on to obtain a Ph.D. from London School of Economics in 2004. He co-founded LNT & Partners in 2006. He taught contracts at Ho Chi Minh City University of Law and published widely in Vietnam and abroad. He is a panel arbitrator at the Vietnam International Arbitration Centre (VIAC) where he has chaired or co-arbitrated many leading cases, and also a panel arbitrator at Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC). He is also a member of Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb) and a CEDR accredited mediator.
Tran Hai Thinh, senior associate, LNT & Partners
Tran Hai Thinh is a senior associate in LNT & Partners’ corporate and competition practice. With seven years of experience and expertise in competition and licensing matters, he has advised on many M&A transactions, competition matters as well as providing advice on the daily operations of both domestic and foreign invested companies.
Tuan Le, general counsel, FWD Insurance
Hong Le, legal director, GSK
Le Anh Tuan, general counsel and chief risk officer, FWD Insurance
Le Anh Tuan oversees governance function including legal, compliance and risk management. He has over 20 years’ experience in both private legal practices and multinational companies including companies in life insurance industry. He has proven track record in supporting various M&A deals and managing legal matters in ASEAN markets including Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Myanmar and Thailand.
Ho Thuy Ngoc Tram, partner, Frasers Law Company
Ho Thuy Ngoc Tram has more than 13 years of experience practising corporate and commercial law, with particular emphasis on debt and equity capital markets, banking and finance (including project finance), restructuring and insolvency, infrastructure, energy and large-scale projects, real estate, TMT, e-commerce, and mergers & acquisitions.
Tram regularly handles large and complex multi-jurisdictional transactions, sophisticated legal issues, and negotiations on a broad range of transactional and contentious matters. In addition, Tram also advises industry leaders in the FMCG and services sectors, energy, manufacturing, infrastructure, among numerous others. Prior to joining Frasers, she worked for a large commercial bank in Ho Chi Minh City, focusing on various cross-border banking transactions. Tram has a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Law in Ho Chi Minh City and a Master of Commercial Laws from the University of Melbourne, Australia.
Yin Ee Ong, vice president, group legal, Warisan TC Holdings
Thuy Tran, legal affairs head, Cathay United Bank
Thuy is the Vietnam Legal Affairs Head of Cathay United Bank (CUB), a member of Cathay Financial Holdings (CFH) having strong presence in Vietnam with CUB, Cathay Life, Cathay Insurance and Indovina Bank. CFH is the first Taiwanese financial holding company offering holistic financial products, including life insurance, property insurance, and corporate and retail banking services and products in Vietnam.
At CUB, Thuy does not only look at legal perception, as she has a broader view of how things work and legal actually covers a lot more than just a very narrow framework. That said, she is playing an important role at CUB in its expansion in Vietnam and its extensive and ambitious projects to be launched locally and regionally, ranging from legal affairs to transactional matters and strategic plans.
Prior to joining CUB, Thuy headed legal affairs at Maybank and was a legal counsel at BNP Paribas. She previously worked for a prominent local law firm then an international law firm where she focused on banking & finance practice areas.
Cuong Nguyen, head of legal, Novartis
Ninh Nguyen, head of legal and compliance, Nestlé Vietnam Limited
Ninh Nguyen heads up the legal and compliance team at Nestlé Vietnam, having spent several years working in house at Unilever. She has significant experience working both in-house and private practice, starting her career at international law firm, Mayer Brown.
Hong Tran, legal director, Procter & Gamble
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