INDOCHINE COUNSEL 2016 by vuong.vo1392

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ABOUT INDOCHINE COUNSEL 04 Overview 04 Core Principles 06 Client Service 07 Confidentiality 07 Firm History 08 Awards & Accolades 09 International Network 10 Representative Clients 12 AREAS OF PRACTICE 13 Inward Investment 14 Corporate & Commercial 14 Mergers & Acquisitions 15 Securities & Capital Markets 15 Banking & Finance 17 Property & Construction 17 Taxation 17 Intellectual Property 18 Technology & Media 18 Mining & Energy 19 International Trade 19 Dispute Resolution 19 OUR MANAGEMENT TEAM

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INDOCHINE COUNSEL STRIVES TO GIVE CLIENTS QUALITY SERVICE IN A TIMELY MANNER

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ABOUT INDOCHINE COUNSEL

Overview Established in October 2006, Indochine Counsel is a leading commercial law firm in Vietnam. Offering services throughout Vietnam, Indochine Counsel is ideally positioned to assist international investors and foreign firms to navigate the legal landscape in one of Asia’s most dynamic and exciting countries. We also take pride in our services offered to domestic clients in searching for opportunities abroad. With over 40 lawyers and staff in two offices, Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi, Indochine Counsel offers expertise in a dozen practice areas and provides assistance throughout the entire life cycle of your business. Based on the principles of Excellence, Professionalism and Ethical Lawyering, Indochine Counsel strives to give clients quality service in a timely manner. Our lawyers have been trained all over the globe and have experience with both local and international law firms. Indochine Counsel takes pride in its people and works hard to ensure that they have the support and training necessary to work at the peak of excellence. Indochine Counsel’s objective is to provide quality legal services and add value to clients through effective customized legal solutions that work specifically for the client. The firm represents local, regional and international clients in a broad range of matters including transactional work and cross-border transactions. The firm’s clients are diverse, ranging from multinational corporations, foreign investors, banks and financial institutions, securities firms, funds and asset management companies, international organizations, law firms to private companies, SMEs and start-up firms.

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WE WORK HARD TO MAINTAIN THE HIGHEST LEVEL OF PROFESSIONALISM IN ALL OF OUR LAWYERS AND IN OUR WORK PRODUCT

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Core Principles Expectation of Excellence

Professionalism

Ethical Lawyering

Our partners are experienced legal practitioners who have spent years providing legal advice and counsel to a wide variety of clients. They maintain a high quality of work and hold themselves to an expectation of excellence. As the founders and leaders of Indochine Counsel, they help their teams and the younger lawyers of the firm to strive towards that expectation. Every memo, every opinion, every contract review and every letter is subject to this expectation. Our clients are some of the greatest companies in the world and they deserve excellence in every aspect of their experience with Indochine Counsel.

Professionalism is hard to define. It can encompass so many aspects of performance that its definition is subject to the ideas of the definer. Indochine Counsel considers professionalism to be the performance of our brief in a manner that reflects quality, timeliness, respect and consistency. We work hard to maintain the highest levels of professionalism in all of our lawyers and in our work product. It is important enough to us that we hold it as one of our three core principles.

At Indochine Counsel we encourage our lawyers to not only fulfill their duties to their clients with zeal, but to maintain a highly ethical practice in all aspects of their work. From confidentiality to conflicts of interest to billing we strive to hold ourselves to a standard as high as any developed country.

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Client Service

Confidentiality

Indochine Counsel is devoted to providing clients a friendly service experience. Too many law firms are focused on billable hours and trying to get the most money out of their clients. Indochine Counsel is interested in maintaining client relationships for the long term. As a result we focus on helping the client understand all the implications of their legal decisions and assist them to navigate the various legal obstacles that are faced by businesses and investors in Vietnam.

The confidentiality of information is of vital importance to our clients. It is important to understand the nature of that confidentiality and how it applies to lawyers in Vietnam.

To help provide the best service possible, Indochine Counsel has over 25 lawyers in two offices. We have lawyers who have studied in Australia, the United States, Japan, Korea, and Russia. These lawyers are familiar with the international standard expected of foreign investors and strive to reach that standard with every assignment and project. In addition to providing an exceptional experience for clients, Indochine Counsel provides regular legal updates and news to clients. We are open to feedback and constructive criticism as we are constantly working to improve our service. For Indochine Counsel the client comes first and we want to ensure that your experience reflects that. If you have had a bad experience or want to make a suggestion for improving our service, please contact our partners. We take your opinions and concerns seriously and will do our best to address any concerns or implement any suggestions you offer.

Under Vietnamese law, lawyers may only disclose information communicated to them by a client in three limited instances. First, they may disclose such information if permitted, in writing, to do so by the client. Second, they must report any information given to them by the client if such information may be used in the perpetration of a crime. Third, lawyers may disclose information if ordered to do so by a court or by an organ of the state. Indochine Counsel takes client confidentiality very seriously. We have instructed all of our lawyers and support staff of the importance of keeping client information confidential. We will only disclose your information in the situations outlined above, and even then we will make every effort to notify you before making such a disclosure. Sometimes, after a deal has been successfully completed, Indochine Counsel will request permission to publicize the deal in order to promote our services. We will only do so if given permission by your appointed representatives prior to issuing a press release.

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Firm History

April 2010

December 2013

The firm continued apace, adding lawyers, sometimes losing them, but always striving towards the excellence in service that had been such an integral part of the founders’ vision. This vision was expanded when, in April 2010, they promoted Nguyen Thi Hong Anh to a full partner. She was the first female partner in the firm, a telling symbol of the growing role of women in professional society in Vietnam.

Indochine Counsel was admitted as a member of The Law Firm Network (LFN), a strong non-exclusive association of independent law firms in over 50 countries. The Law Firm Network was founded in 1989. The membership allows the firm to have an extended global network with quality law firms in various jurisdictions around the world.

November 2014

October 2006 Indochine Counsel opened its doors on 18 October 2006 as the brainchild of four lawyers: Dang The Duc, To Xuan Tinh, Le Nguyen Huy Thuy and Phan Anh Vu. They started small, with only a few lawyers, but quickly ramped up to speed. Less than a year after Indochine Counsel’s founding, an Intellectual Property and Technology Practice Group was formed under the direction of Nguyen Thi Hong Anh, an experienced IP lawyer and then Senior Associate of the firm.

November 2011 At the end of 2011 Indochine Counsel tried a bold experiment. They joined forces with a leading Korean law firm, Apex Law LLC, and opened a Korea desk. Unfortunately, the experiment did not prove as fruitful as they hoped and the Korea desk folded within a year of opening. The road to success is paved with many obstacles.

January 2009

September 2012

With meager resources and a focus on business, the partners decided to wait to open an office in Hanoi. They worked with another firm, Leadco Legal Counsel – a Hanoi-based law firm – and coordinated work between the two cities through a strategic alliance. This strategic alliance lasted until shortly before Indochine Counsel opened its own office in Hanoi, in September 2012.

The firm kept its chin up, however, and refocused its work on Vietnam. In September 2012, Indochine Counsel established its own branch office in Hanoi, which is in line with the firm’s commitment to further enhance our practice and expand our network to deliver services more efficiently to our clients.

Indochine Counsel became a founding member of the ASEAN Legal Alliance (ALA). The ALA was formed in 2014 to bring together law firms from each of the 10 member states of ASEAN to provide a truly ASEAN wide legal network. Each of the member law firms work in close cooperation to provide seamless legal services across the whole of ASEAN. It is a legal network that is ASEAN focused and present in all 10 ASEAN countries. There four core practice areas of the ALA are Cross Border Investments and International Trade, Intellectual Property, Arbitration and Dispute Resolution, Private Client and International Real Estate. The ALA has more than 100 lawyers practicing in more than 16 offices across 10 countries.

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Awards & Accolades Indochine Counsel and its lawyers are proud to be recognized by prestigious international organizations and legal publications. The following is a list of recent awards and accolades:

• Recognised firm in Financial and Corporate in IFLR1000 2017

• Recognised firm in IFLR1000 (2010 and 2014)

• Ranked as the 1st Tier Law Firm for media law practice by Media Law International (2014 to 2016)

• Leading firm for Corporate and M&A in Chambers

• Ranked as the 2nd Tier Law Firm in Vietnam for both Patent and Trademark/Copyright by ALB’s IP Rankings (2015 and 2016) • Ranked as the 3rd Tier Law Firm in Vietnam for 2015 by The 2015 Asia IP Profiles • Ranked as the Firm of the Year 2015 in Telecommunication, Media & Technology by Asian-Mena Counsel – In-House Community Firm of the Year 2015 • Ranked as the 3rd Tier M&A Firm by Asian Legal Business M&A Rankings 2014 & 2016

• Recommended firm in the Legal 500 Asia Pacific (2010 to 2014) Asia-Pacific (2011 to 2015) • Leading firm in Asialaw Profiles (2009 to 2014) • Leading firm in Asian-Mena Counsel In-House Handbook (2009 to 2015) • Named in Asian Legal Business 50 Asia’s Largest Law Firms (2011 to 2015) • Ranked firm for Patent, Trademark and Copyright in the Managing Intellectual Property IP Stars Handbook (formerly the World IP Survey) (2010 to 2016) • Leading IP firm for Patent and Trademark in the Asia IP Profiles 2012 and 2013

• Shortlisted for “Vietnam Trademark Firm of the Year” in 2012 and “Vietnam Copyright Firm of the Year” in 2013, by IP Asia Awards • Corporate INTL Legal Awards 2013 for “Natural Resources Law Firm of the Year in Vietnam” • Acquisition Int’l M&A Awards 2013 for “Mid Sized M&A Law Firm of the Year in Vietnam” • GlobalLawExperts Award 2012 for “M&A Law Firm of the Year in Vietnam” • DealMakers Country Awards 2011 for “Law Firm of the Year – M&A, Capital Markets and Banking & Finance - Vietnam”

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International Network The Law Firm Network

ASEAN Legal Alliance

Justinian Lawyers

Indochine Counsel is the Vietnam member of The Law Firm Network, a strong non-exclusive association of independent law firms from around the world whose principal lawyers have close personal and professional relationships. The Network has members in approximately 50 countries and we have an extended global network with quality law firms in many additional countries around the world. Member firms are leaders in their local markets, with strong regional and international connections. Because of their local leadership positions, member firms are often more in tune with critical local legal, political and cultural issues as compared to the typical local offices of “global” firms.

To compete more effectively in the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC), the ASEAN Legal Alliance (ALA) was formed to bring together law firms from each of the 10 member states to provide a truly ASEAN wide legal network. The AEC will make ASEAN a common market for business, trade and commerce. However, the legal market will remain separate and distinct, differentiated by different legal systems, languages, cultures and business practices. The ALA brings together law firms in each of the member countries working in close cooperation to provide legal services across the whole of ASEAN. Each firm has the requisite experience to handle foreign investments and has the business knowledge to assist clients navigate through the different business cultures that prevail in each ASEAN country.

Justinian Lawyers is a multinational association of law firms that are totally independent and act under their own responsibility. Justinian Lawyers has cooperating firms in many countries of the world. The advantage of Justinian Lawyers is to offer a full legal service on an international scale. Our clients can trust any of our lawyers all over the world and be sure that, if necessary, we will take care of legal actions including collaborating with our colleagues in other countries.

For more information on The Law Firm Network, please visit www.networkedlaw.com

For more information on the ASEAN Legal Alliance, please visit www.aseanlegalalliance.net.

For more information on the Justinian Lawyers, please visit www.justinianlawyers.com

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AT INDOCHINE COUNSEL, WE ENCOURAGE OUR LAWYERS TO REPRESENT THEIR CLIENTS WITH ZEAL AND TO MAINTAIN A HIGHLY ETHICAL PRACTICE

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Representative Clients

The below client portfolio is not exhaustive; though, it reflects the clients’ trust in us and our pride in their business.

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Adidas Agilent Technologies Alvogen Asia Chemical Corp Asiasoft Corporation Avaya Inc. Bio-Rad Laboratories BPC Banking Technologies Brenntag CapitaLand Castrol BP Chevron Chiaphua Group China Development Bank Cisco Vietnam Convergys Corporation CROWN Asia Pacific Holdings Ltd. Delmar Group DHL Express & Logistics Dong A Securities Corporation Dulopillo Erria A/S ETG Worldwide Eunmin S&D Vietnam Eurodrug Laboratories B.V. Foglamp Research FPT Group Fresenius Kabi AG Fuji Group (Japan)

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Gamuda Land GANNON Vietnam Genus Plc GfK Asia Gimpex Group GL Noble Denton Glenmark Pharmaceutical Global Calcium Global Pharma Healthcare Golden Pig JSC Guilin Pharmaceutical (Shanghai) Hafary Holdings Limited HAL Group Hoan My Medical Corporation HR2B HSBC Hunter Douglas ILA Vietnam Investment Fund for Developing Countries (IFU) Ireka Corporation Berhad Japan Foods Holding Ltd. Jebsen & Jessen (SEA) Pte Ltd. Khaisilk Group KIDO Corporation Klingspor AG Larsen & Toubro Limited Lasta Multimedia JSC LG Electronics

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Linaria Chemicals Thailand Limited Lombard Investments Maj Invest A/S Mega Life Sciences National Oilwell Varco Navigos Group / VietnamWorks NAXCO Group NIIT India Novo Nordisk Nuplex Resins Onduline Group Orana A/S P.T. Propan Raya Industrial Coating Chemicals Perfect Global Vietnam Plethico Pharmaceuticals Limited PNJ Corporation Posco Prudential Qiwi Vietnam (SimPay JSC) Quatron Steel JSC Raffles Education Rheem Australia Robert Walters Saigon Paper Corporation Samsonite Europe N.V Samsung Electronics Savico Semco Maritime

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Southern Bank Sumitomo Electric Device Innovations Synthokem Labs TaherInvest Group The Abraaj Group The Johns Hopkins University Tien Phuoc Group Tien Wah Press Holdings Berhard Tokyo Machine & Tool Toyota (Vietnam) Trainor Asia Triumph Vietnam Trung Nguyen Group Truong Hai Auto Corporation (Thaco) Turner & Townsend Van Phat Hung JSC Victoria Healthcare Vietnam Asset Management Limited VinaCapital Vinamit JSC Vinasun Visa International Vissan Voxbone World Bank Group Yahoo! Asia Pacific ZarubezhEnergoProekt Europe Ltd.

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AREAS OF PRACTICE Indochine Counsel offers services in diverse practice areas while maintaining its focus on fulfilling client needs. Our experienced lawyers are available to help you navigate every aspect of founding and operating a business in Vietnam. • Inward Investment • Corporate & Commercial • Mergers & Acquisitions • Securities & Capital Markets • Banking & Finance • Property & Construction • Taxation • Intellectual Property • Technology & Media • Mining & Energy • International Trade • Dispute Resolution

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Inward Investment

Corporate & Commercial

Inward investment, or foreign investment, is one of Indochine Counsel’s core practices. We have advised and assisted various foreign investors to set up investment projects and helped them during operations in Vietnam.

Our Corporate & Commercial Practice provides the full range of legal services to corporate clients in various industries. We advise clients on corporate compliance and regulatory issues related to their business operations.

Types of services:

• Market entry advice: legal research and legal assessment including legal due diligence

• Incorporation and registration of branches and representative offices in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia

• Investment structure and licensing matters: providing advice and preparing legal documentation for obtaining investment license / approval for 100% foreign owned companies, joint ventures, business cooperation contracts, and other business vehicles • Representing clients in negotiations • Working with government authorities and attending to administrative procedures • Handling post-licensed procedures for foreign invested projects • Advising on regulatory issues in connection with the operation of foreign invested projects in Vietnam • Investment liquidation and corporate restructuring

• Corporate secretarial services • Compliance matters and regulatory issues • Commercial contracts and related contractual matters • Labour & employment issues • Licensing, agency and distributorship • Corporate governance & director duties • Corporate reorganization & restructuring • Corporate insolvency • Incorporation of companies & investment vehicles in offshore jurisdictions

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Mergers & Acquisitions

Securities & Capital Markets

Indochine Counsel’s lawyers are at the forefront of M&A/Private Equity practice in Vietnam. They have acted as legal counsel for numerous landmark M&A deals (both cross-border and domestic). Some of our lawyers have been ranked by international legal directories as leading experts in this area.

At the forefront of Vietnam’s rapidly evolving financial & capital markets, we advise and assist financial institutions, securities companies, fund managers, listed companies and unlisted companies to raise funds through primary and secondary issues of securities. The Securities & Capital Markets Practice is closely linked to our Banking & Finance Practice.

Types of services: • Deal and transaction structure advice • Due diligence investigations • Preparation and negotiation of acquisition agreements for equity and assets, merger agreements, and other transactional documents • Leveraged management buyouts and buy-ins • Corporate governance, director duties and disclosure • Governmental filings, approvals and registrations • Advice on taxation and related matters

Types of services: • Compliance advice on regulatory matters for listed companies • Initial public offerings by companies in Vietnam • Advice on listings of companies in Ho Chi Minh City Stock Exchange (HOSE) and Hanoi Stock Exchange (HNX) • Due diligence and issuance of legal opinions in respect of Vietnamese laws for international offerings • Equitisation (privatisation) & reorganization • Corporate restructuring • Equity-related fund raisings such as rights issues, private placements & convertible securities • Investment fund formation and fund-related work including structuring, prelaunch activities, and listing

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Banking & Finance

Property & Construction

Taxation

We advise local and foreign banks, financial institutions and corporate borrowers on Vietnamese laws related to a variety of loans and other debt-related instruments and financing transactions.

With the rapid growth of the property market in Vietnam, our Property & Construction Practice has been very active in real estate transactions, property financing and construction related work. We advise property developers, lenders, real estate investment funds, local and foreign investors, contractors, consultants and property managers, on a wide range of matters.

We provide clients with tax planning and tax advice related to all business vehicles in Vietnam. Our tax lawyers advise on corporate income tax, personal income tax (for both local and expatriate staff ), VAT, import & export duties, and we work closely with audit firms to arrange tax planning for corporate clients.

Types of services: • Legal opinions for loans or financing transactions, including due diligence investigations • Project finance • Property development finance • Asset and asset-backed financing • Security structure and types • Governmental approvals, registrations and enforcement of loans and security • Review and drafting of banking documentation • Legal compliance & regulatory advice

Types of services: • Advising on regulatory issues for property development & construction projects • Commercial and residential acquisitions (including site acquisitions), sales & leases • Property developments & investments including joint ventures • Property financing • Contractual matters for landlords and tenants • Property management • Government relations & licensing matters for property projects • Construction contracts, procurement contracts and EPCs • Advising on contract administration

Types of services: • Tax planning • Tax incentives and preferential tax treatment • Tax disputes and investigations • Withholding tax on cross-border transactions and services • Capital gain tax for mergers & acquisitions • Taxation for real estate & property development • Transfer pricing • Tax refund (import VAT & customs duties) • Inward and outward investment structuring

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Intellectual Property

Technology & Media

We offer a broad range of services in intellectual property and IP-related matters. Intellectual property practice is handled by our IP & Technology Practice Group. The Group assists local and international clients in creation, protection, enhancement and enforcement of their intellectual property rights in Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Myanmar and other countries through our networking with IP agents and patent firms worldwide.

Our Technology & Media Practice is the most dynamic practice in the context of developments in the IT, media and telecom industries in Vietnam. Indochine Counsel represents and advises technology firms, telecom companies, media & entertainment companies, internet service providers and value-added service suppliers.

Types of services:

• Availability searches and pre-filing advice

• E-commerce and internet laws

• Registration of trademarks, copyrights, designs and patents in Vietnam and other countries worldwide

• Data privacy and security

• Assignments & renewals

• IT outsourcing agreements

• Licensing, technology transfer, franchising and IP-related contracts

• Content/production agreements

• Intellectual property audits & investigations

• Procurement/supply agreements for IT & telecom products and services

• IP counseling and management of IP portfolios for the clients

• IT & telecom projects

• Media & entertainment laws

• Passing off & anti-piracy actions • Domain names • Enforcement of intellectual property rights The firm is a member of International Trademark Association (INTA), Asian Patent Attorneys Association (APAA), Vietnam Intellectual Property Association (VIPA), and the ASEAN Intellectual Property Association (ASEAN-IPA).

Technology & Media Practice is handled by our IP & Technology Practice Group.

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Mining & Energy

International Trade

Dispute Resolution

Our Mining & Energy practice has worked on natural resources acquisitions throughout Indochina. They offer advice on both large and small scale projects and are familiar with the Public-Private Partnership laws that control the sector.

Vietnam acceded to the World Trade Organization (WTO) at the beginning of 2007. Since then the regulatory environment has struggled to come to terms with the various commitments made by the government in that accession. Indochine Counsel’s International Trade practice provides advice and assistance in navigating the often contradictory regulations and commitments. In addition, the International Trade practice assists with international supply chains, shipping, and customs.

We represent clients before courts and arbitration forums in Vietnam in commercial, corporate, international trade, construction, intellectual property and labour disputes. Our lawyers and of counsels (litigation lawyers) have extensive experience in court proceedings in provinces and cities nationwide at all levels.

Types of services: • Exploration and exploitation contracts • Hydropower projects • Project financing • PPP negotiations and contract drafting • Mineral and energy export regulations • Government liaison and regulatory issues • Inhabitant relocation procedures

Types of services: • WTO rules & regulations • International sales contracts and related matters • International trade issues • Anti-dumping proceedings, countervailing duty, and safeguard investigations • Customs & import compliance • Export controls and economic sanctions

Types of services: • Negotiation and voluntary settlement • Representing clients before court proceedings and government authorities • Arbitration proceedings • Alternative dispute resolution

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OUR MANAGEMENT TEAM Our pride is our people. While we have over 25 lawyers between our two offices we retain a partner led attitude. Our partners and management team act as leaders and examples for the rest of our team and also manage several practice areas among them. Below are brief reviews of their profiles.

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“Our experienced lawyers are available to help you navigate every aspect of founding and operating a business in Vietnam.”

Dang The Duc Managing Partner Vietnam T +848 3823 9640 E duc.dang@indochinecounsel.com Dang The Duc is the founder and managing partner of Indochine Counsel. With 20 years of experience in business law practice in Vietnam, Duc has extensive expertise advising foreign clients in international and cross-border transactions in such areas of practice as inward investment, corporate & commercial transactions, private equity, M&A, securities & capital market transactions, corporate restructurings, and project financing. Over the past several years, he has been involved in a number of major transactions for leading financial institutions, investment funds and multinational companies. In addition, he has substantial experience in advisory & transactional work for IPR, IT and technology related matters. Duc has been recognized as a leading lawyer in Vietnam by various international publications such as IFLR1000, Asian Legal Business, Chambers Global, Legal 500 Asia Pacific, Asialaw Profiles, The International Who’s Who Legal, the Expert Guide - The World’s Leading Lawyers, and Managing Intellectual Property.

• Named as a Market-leading Lawyer in Corporate/M&A in Asialaw Leading Lawyers 2016 • Selected as the Winner in Private Investment Funds Lawyer of the Year in Vietnam by Finance Monthly Law Awards 2016 • Named as an IP Star in the Managing Intellectual Property IP Stars Handbook 2015 and 2016 • Named as one of the best lawyers in Corporate/M&A in Chambers Asia-Pacific 2015 • Recommended lawyer for Corporate/M&A by The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2014 • Named as one of the world’s leading telecoms & media lawyers in The International Who’s Who of Telecoms & Media Lawyers 2014 & 2015 • Named as a leading lawyer in the Euromoney’s Banking, finance and transactional Expert Guide - The World’s Leading Lawyers, 2012 - 2016 • Named as a leading M&A lawyer in Vietnam in The Guide to the World’s Leading Emerging Markets Practitioners 2010 and 2011 (IFLR) • Named in Asian Legal Business Top 100 Lawyers 2009 (ALB Hot 100) • Leading Lawyer (Financial & Corporate), IFLR1000 (2010 edition) • Named M&A Expert in ALM Guide to Global M&A 2008 & 2009

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To Xuan Tinh Partner Ho Chi Minh City T +848 3823 9640 E tinh.to@indochinecounsel.com

To Xuan Tinh is a partner of the firm with over 14 years of legal and consulting experience. His practice focuses on inward investment, corporate & commercial, property & construction, and taxation matters. He is also active in advising IP matters and dealing with enforcement of intellectual property rights for foreign clients in Vietnam. Prior to joining the firm, he worked several years for a major legal & consulting firm in Vietnam. His experience includes establishment of foreign invested projects, attending to licensing matters and representing investors before Vietnamese Government authorities. He has substantial experience in licensing matters for FDI projects in Vietnam.

Tinh has been actively involved as a local consultant for foreign investors in various foreign invested projects in Vietnam. His representative clients include: HSBC, The Hong Kong Chiap Hua Group, VinaCapital Group, Southern Bank, Gannon Vietnam, Chevron Lubricant Vietnam Ltd., Nuplex Resins Vietnam, BP Petco, Quantron Steel JSC, SaigonTel, Klingspor Vietnam, I-tech Vietnam Ltd., Mega Lifesciences (Vietnam) Limited, Vedan Vietnam, Orsan Vietnam, Rheem Vietnam Ltd., Perfect Global (H.K) Limited, Delmar International (China) Inc., Triumph International (Vietnam) Ltd, Chemico Cosfa Vietnam, Dulopillo Vietnam, and Viet Han Corporation.

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Le Nguyen Huy Thuy Partner Ho Chi Minh City T +848 3823 9640 E thuy.le@indochinecounsel.com

Le Nguyen Huy Thuy has over 15 years of legal experience in Vietnam, with major experience in property & construction, mergers & acquisitions, corporate & commercial, labour & employment, inward investment and dispute resolution. He joined Indochine Counsel in 2006 as a partner. Before that he worked four years as the legal manager for Vision & Associates at the Ho Chi Minh City Branch Office. He also worked as an associate for Le Nguyen Law Office.

Thuy has advised and assisted a number of foreign companies and foreign funds in mergers & acquisitions and large foreign investors in property development projects. He is also active in representing foreign clients in construction & commercial disputes in Vietnam. Some of his representative clients include: CapitaLand, Levis Strauss & Co, Yahoo!, Visa International (AsiaPacific), Gamuda Berhad Group, Plenitude Berhad, Ireka Corporation Berhad, Malaysian South-South Corporation Berhad (MASCORP), Orana Vietnam, CROWN Beverage Cans (Dong Nai) Limited, Toyota Ly Thuong Kiet Co., Ltd. and The Industrialization Fund for the Developing Countries (IFU). Thuy has been recognized as a leading lawyer for Construction & Real Estate and Resolution & Litigation in the Asialaw Leading Lawyers for 2014 and 2016.

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Phan Anh Vu Partner Ho Chi Minh City T +848 3823 9640 E vu.phan@indochinecounsel.com

Phan Anh Vu is a partner at Indochine Counsel with more than 10 years of legal advisory and business consulting experience in Vietnam, specializing in inward investment, corporate & commercial, mergers & acquisitions, and property & construction. He also has significant experience with securities, project financing transactions, mining & energy, and insolvency & restructuring. Prior to joining Indochine Counsel in 2006, he served as an associate and deputy legal manager for a major local law firm in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. He began his career as in-house counsel for 7 years at a large Stateowned company, operating in garment, textile, petrol and real estate.

With in-depth knowledge of business law, Vu has advised and acted as a legal counsel in a number of investment projects and commercial transactions for some major foreign and local investors in Vietnam, including Gimpex Limited, Vietnam Alliance Minerals, Hoan My Medical Corp, Victoria Healthcare, ILA Vietnam, Raffles Education, HR2B Vietnam, Turner & Townsend, Sumitomo Electric Device Innovations, Chevron Lubricant Vietnam Ltd., Truong Hai Auto Corporation (THACO), Golden Pig JSC, Saigon Paper, Trung Nguyen Group, Triumph Vietnam, Vietfund Management, Dong A Fund Management Corp, Southern Bank, Gulf Developers, Guthrie GTS Limited, and ZarubezhEnergoProekt Europe Ltd.

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Nguyen Thi Hong Anh Partner, Head of IP & Technology Practice Group Ho Chi Minh City T +848 3823 9640 E anh.nguyen@indochinecounsel.com

Nguyen Thi Hong Anh, a partner of Indochine Counsel, heads the firmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Intellectual Property & Technology Practice Group. With both legal and technical background, she has been in practice as a patent & trademark attorney for over 18 years, dedicated to protecting and enforcing intellectual property rights for clients in Vietnam. Hong Anh served in several positions dealing with IP and technology matters before she joined Indochine Counsel in 2006. She worked as a patent specialist for Pham & Associates from 1995 to 2003, and then vice manager of IP practice at Vision & Associates, Ho Chi Minh City Branch Office. She is especially active in representing foreign companies in prosecution work for patents, designs

and trademarks as well as enforcement actions for intellectual property rights. Hong Anh is also extensively involved in advising foreign companies in emerging IP rights and technology related matters in Vietnam such as internet, media and telecoms. Some clients she has advised include: Navigos JSC / VietnamWorks, Genus PLC (UK), Perfect International Resources Limited, Eurodrug Laboratories B.V, United Pharma (Vietnam), Inc., JuhlerGroup, Nuplex Resins Vietnam, Yahoo! Vietnam, PT. Propan Raya ICC, Glenmark Pharmaceuticals Limited, Global Pharma Healthcare Ltd., Super Cyber, Phanu Group, Samsonite Europe N.V, Plethico Pharmaceuticals Limited, CIPLA Ltd, Behn Meyer, Green Cross Vietnam, EVN Land, Savico Group, Marion Biotech, FPT Online, G-MEI Network Technology, and KIDO Corporation.

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Steven Jacob Foreign Associate Ho Chi Minh City T +848 3823 9640 E steven.jacob@indochinecounsel.com

Steven Jacob is a California certified attorney who has spent half a decade working in the Indochina region. During his attendance at Santa Clara University, where he received a J.D., Steven interned with VILAF-Hong Duc, another of Vietnam’s top law firms. After graduating he worked with Indochine Counsel as a Legal Consultant for a year where he acted in several cases ranging from international trade to corporate law and from M&A to intellectual property. In 2010 he moved to Cambodia where he worked with the firm Bun & Associates. There he assisted with hotel management agreements, banking documents, and some labor law. In 2011 he moved to become in-house legal counsel for Sanum Investments, Ltd. There he was responsible for legal actions and contract issues for Cambodia and Laos. Based in Laos he assisted in some banking issues, but largely

focused on corporate and commercial work. Perhaps his largest job was assisting external counsel in a treaty arbitration between Sanum Investments, Ltd., and the Laos government over expropriated assets. Steven has authored several articles on the region. Most recently he published “Selecting a Dispute Resolution Venue in Laos” in the IPBA journal, and co-authored the “Vietnam Chapter: International Insolvency and Restructuring Guide” for a Law Firm Network publication, and “Corporate Governance and Directors’ Duties: Vietnam”, PLC Cross-border Corporate Governance and Directors’ Duties Handbook 2010 published by Practical Law Company. He also edits the firm’s monthly Client Alert and regularly contributes articles to that forum. Also, in 2010 Steven was included in Asian Legal Business’s Hot 100 lawyers.

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Ho Chi Minh City Office Unit 4A2, 4th Floor, Han Nam Office Bldg 65 Nguyen Du Street District 1, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam T +848 3823 9640 F +848 3823 9641 E info@indochinecounsel.com

Hanoi Office Unit 705, 7th Floor, CMC Tower Duy Tan Street Cau Giay District, Hanoi, Vietnam T +844 3795 5261 F +844 3795 5262 E hanoi@indochinecounsel.com