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:
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Website:https://www.vilaf.com.vn/
Ho Chi Minh City
Vietnam