Practice areas

Banking & finance; corporate & commercial; inbound investment; M&A; real estate

Introduction

Viet Dang Nguyen practised laws since 2000 and is regarded as amongst the best in Vietnam. He heads Bizconsult law firm as a senior partner with decades of experience in major areas of practice in corporate and commercial, M&A, banking and finance, real estate, construction, litigation, labour and employment.

Viet completed his LLB at Hanoi Law University (1999), LLM at the Transnational Law and Business University (TLBU), Seoul (2006) where he had field studies at international organisations (TLBU Institute in Paris, the WTO and the WIPO in Geneva, the ICC and the ICJ in the Hague, the EU Commission in Brussels), and the training course in International Merger and Acquisition, the College of Law of England and Wales, the UK (2007). Viet was admitted to Hanoi Bar.

In the span of his career, he has represented clients in a wide spectrum of regions and industries, including real estate development, hydro and thermal power plants, construction, pulp and paper production, logistics, securities, insurance, banking, food and beverage, etc. His clients include multinational corporations such as Chemonics International (US), Dunkin Brands (US), Papa John (US), Daewoo E&C (South Korea), Samsung E&C (South Korea), POSCO E&C (South Korea), Hyundai E&C (South Korea), Nippon Steel & Sumikin Engineering (Japan), Sojitz (Japan), Petronas (Malaysia), Qatar Airlines (Qatar), TotalEnergies (France), Capitaland (Singapore), Gamuda Land (Malaysia), ANZ Bank, UOB (Singapore), UNDP, etc., and other major corporations in Vietnam.

Viet is an active contributor to legal developments in Vietnam and published dozens of articles commenting on the legal provisions of Vietnam and recommendations for developments. Articles published in international and regional newspapers and publishing houses, such as Asian Counsel Magazines, Asia Law & Practice Magazines, Vietnam News, Vietnam Investment Review, etc. Viet contributed to “Legal Environment for Business Development Services in Vietnam” published in 2004 by GTZ SME Project and “Contract Laws” published in 2009 by GTZ and the Ministry of Justice of Vietnam. He is a long-term contributor to the research on the Vietnam chapter for the publication “Doing Business” published annually by the World Bank.

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