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• Robert FishPartner
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• Thomas MillerPartner
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The firm's Vietnam practice is one of the largest and most successful among foreign law firms in the country.

Our Ho Chi Minh City practice is managed by Partner Thomas Miller. Thomas works closely with our office in Hanoi to advise clients on all legal aspects of investing and doing business in Vietnam.

Our lawyers have a depth of experience in Vietnam in the areas of banking and financial services, manufacturing, trade and distribution, resources, infrastructure, and real estate and construction matters.

We are widely regarded as the premier provider of legal translation services in Vietnam. Our database of more than 3,500 law translations is available on our website www.vietnamlaws.com.

To keep our readers up to date with the latest news on legal and commercial developments in Vietnam, Allens publishes the Vietnam Legal Updates on a monthly basis.

Our presence in Vietnam is supported by our office in Singapore, which has an excellent track record advising multinational corporations, banks and governments on transactions throughout South East Asia, including in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and IndoChina, over the past 30 years.

Our recent experience includes:

• advised Germany's third-largest insurance provider, Talanx Group, on its strategic Vietnamese partnership with Hanoi Stock Exchange-listed insurer PVI Holdings
• advised BTMU on its loans to customers in Vietnam. The work includes advising on a variety of regulatory and security issues
• advised CLSA Limited on the Vietnam collateral and security arrangements under its US$2 billion Asian Securities Program which involved the offering of swaps instruments and Vietnamese equity-linked certificates
• advised Azure City Company Limited on a joint venture between international and local investors in relation to a villa development with in excess of US$16 million
• having advised Keppel Land (Singapore) on a US$30 million 'Saigon Riviera' joint venture residential 'for sale' development in An Phu, Ho Chi Minh City
• advised Vietnam Infrastructure Supero Limited (VinaCapital) in relation to its investment in Vietstar, a solid waste treatment plant project
• having advised AMP Capital Investors Limited on Vietnam legal issues in relation to a US$400 million private placement of shares in a Mauritius fund which will invest in Vietnam real estate projects
• having acted as Vietnam counsel to JSM Indochina Limited on its June 2007 admission to the London Stock Exchange's Alternative Investment Market. Our work included due diligence; drafting Vietnam sections of the Admission Document; and provision of a formal legal opinion
• provided general legal advice to Sharp Corporation in relation to establishing a subsidiary and increasing charter capital. The client has a large presence in the international technology sector
• provided regulatory advice to Area Mobile in relation to Vietnamese telecommunications and aviation laws and how these interact
• having advised GE (US) on the participation in equitization of Vietcombank; and advice on other acquisitions

Language capabilities:

English, Vietnamese