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Hanh Hien Nguyen

VILAF

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Position: Senior Associate
Rating:
  • Rising star
Practice Areas:
Banking and finance
Jurisdictions:
Languages:
Vietnamese
English
Biography

Hanh Hien advises M&A and securities transactions, and advises multinational financial institutions on project and asset finance transactions, 100% foreign owned banks and foreign banks’ branches in Vietnam on day-by-day legal issues, foreign investors on making investment in Vietnam’s securities market and Vietnamese entities on issuing bonds in Vietnam.

Recent case highlights
  • HSBC in arranging a US$150 million secured financing transaction to finance the Celadon City Project in Ho Chi Minh City and a US$120 million secured financing transaction to finance Gamuda Land Residential Project in Hanoi
  • China Development Bank in arranging a US$600 million facility provided to Thang Long Thermal Power Plant
  • ANZ in the sale of its retail banking business in Vietnam to Shinhan Bank Vietnam, involving 125,000 customers and US$240 million in lending assets and US$600 million in deposits
  • Bank of China (HK) in the US$151 million acquisition of the banking assets of Bank of China branch in Ho Chi Minh City
  • HSBC Vietnam, as the issuer of VND600 billion unsecured bonds, the first bond issued by a foreign bank in Vietnam, which is recognised as “the best new bond” in Vietnam by The Asset in 2020
Practice areas
  • Asset finance
  • Banking
  • Capital markets: Debt
  • M&A
  • Project finance
Sector expertise
  • Aviation
  • Banking
  • Energy
  • Financial services
Bar admissions
  • Vietnam

 

Academic qualifications
  • University of Leeds (UK), LL.M. International Banking and Finance Law, 2018
  • Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Bachelor of Arts, 2012
  • Ho Chi Minh City University of Law (Vietnam), LL.B., 2011
Address:
Ho Chi Minh City
Vietnam
Tel:+84 28 3827 7300 Email:Contact this practitioner Website:https://www.vilaf.com.vn/