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Ngoc Anh Bui

VILAF

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Position: Hanoi Managing Partner
Rating:
  • Highly regarded
Practice Areas:
M&A
Jurisdictions:
Languages:
Vietnamese
English
Biography

With 28 years of practice, Ngoc Anh is a business lawyer with international expertise and local experience on M&A, SOE Equitization & State Divestment, foreign direct investment, corporate restructure, contract law, employment, market access, customs and WTO. Ngoc Anh is ranked as a Highly Regarded Lawyer by IFLR1000, one of the top 15 M&A Lawyers by ALB, Vietnam’s top 100 lawyers by ABLJ; and Commended External Counsel by Inhouse Community

Recent transactional highlights
  • Advising Impact Energy Asia Development Limited in relation to the PPA and financing of a 600MW Wind Power Project in Laos
  • Advising Augusta Investment Limited in relation to the acquisition of private business portfolio from SCB with the value of more than US$1B
  • Advising an Italian power company’s acquisition of 100% share capital to develop a 700MW ground based solar power and 200MW onshore wind power in Dak Lak, Vietnam
  • Advising JX Nippon Oil & Energy Corporation to acquire the strategic shares to become the sole foreign strategic shareholder into Petrolimex
  • Advising ANA Holdings to acquire the strategic shares into Vietnam Airlines, as the sole strategic foreign investor
  • Advising LGE in the US$1.5B new giant investment project together with new 100% owned subsidiary in the Industrial Manufacturing Complex in Hai Phong, Vietnam
Practice areas
  • Competition
  • Investment funds
  • M&A
  • Private equity
  • Project development
  • Project finance
  • Restructuring and insolvency
Sector specialisations
  • Automotive
  • Construction and materials
  • Consumer goods and services
  • Energy
  • Industrials
  • Oil and gas
  • Real estate
  • Tech and telecoms
Bar admissions
  • Hanoi Bar
  • Vietnam Bar Federation

Association memberships
  • AmCham
  • IBA
  • InCham
  • VBLC
Academic qualifications
  • Georgetown University Law Center, S.J.D./Doctor of Judicial Science, with distinction, 2007
  • Fellow, Institute of International Economic Law, 2004-2006
  • Institute for State and Law Studies, Hanoi, LLM, 2001
  • Institute of Social Studies, the Netherland, Post-graduate Diploma, 1999
  • Hanoi Law University, LLB, 1995
Address:
Hanoi
Vietnam
Tel:+84 24 3934 8530 Email:Contact this practitioner Website:http://www.vilaf.com.vn