I am joined by Nhut Nguyen of Russin & Vecchi and Thomas Choo of Clyde & Co to discuss the state of the M&A market in Vietnam. We covered what makes Vietnam an attractive place for investment and the areas investors need to pay attention to make their deals a success.

For more information on M&As in Vietnam, please visit https://www.russinvecchi.com.vn/

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 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.

Nhut has practiced law in Vietnam for more than 20 years.

Thomas Choo is a partner based in Clyde &Co’s Singapore office. Described in the Legal 500 as “a leading individual”, "extremely prompt and responsive”, commanding "astounding legal knowledge" and "genuinely interested in developing long term relationships with clients”, Thomas is a corporate transactional and employment lawyer focusing on regional M&A (including VC and PE), TMT licensing and regulatory matters and employment.

Thomas advises on a full range of corporate transactions with a particular focus on mergers and acquisitions, trade sales and competitive bids, joint ventures, corporate restructuring and financing.

He is active on cross border corporate transactions in Singapore and across the Asia Pacific region and works for a wide range of clients with a particular focus on the Technology, Financial and Private Equity/Venture Capital sectors. He regularly leads on and co-ordinates corporate transactions across a wide range of jurisdictions in the Asia Pacific region, ranging from Mongolia and Mainland China all the way south to New Zealand and Fiji.

He is admitted as a solicitor in both Singapore and England & Wales.