About Phuon Nguyen
Phuon is a Senior Associate with more than 12 years' experience advising Vietnamese and international clients on a diverse range of complex and high-profile transactions and projects in Vietnam.
Her practice primarily concentrates on strategic M&A transactions, capital markets and corporate restructurings across industries such as banking, financial services, education, pharmaceuticals and healthcare services, real estate, retail and distribution, energy and infrastructure.
Phuon joined Allens in March 2025, before which she worked in the Ho Chi Minh City office of an international law firm and a top-tier Vietnamese commercial law firm. She holds an LLB from Ho Chi Minh City University of Law with distinction.
Her previous firms experience includes advising:
- A leading Thai conglomerate: on its acquisition ofa leading retail hypermarket chain in Vietnam at an enterprise value of US$1.14bn
- A Singapore fund: on its US$103m investment in a chain of 11 eye and general hospitals
- A global development finance institution: on its acquisition of hydropower assets in the centre of Vietnam
- A major Thai bank: on its proposed acquisition of a leading consumer finance company in Vietnam
- A prominent Vietnamese industrial group: on its joint venture with a Chinese State-owned incorporation to establish a company in Vietnam operating in the manufacture and distribution of electric vehicles
- A global fintech unicorn: on its acquisition of an IPS company in Vietnam
- A regional private equity fund: on a proposed acquisition of shares in the holding company of two pharmaceutical distribution companies
- A global education group: on its investment in four international schools in Vietnam
- An Australian university: on its restructuring and obtainment of licenses and permits required for education operations
- A U.S.-backed university in Vietnam: on various regulatory matters in respect of the daily operation of an education establishment in Vietnam
- A private Vietnamese education operator: on its proposed transfer of its K-12 systems with over 60 schools in Vietnam
- A multinational pharmaceutical company: on a strategic memorandum regarding the legal framework and models for the local importing and exporting in Vietnam
- A Japanese venture capital firm: on a proposed acquisition of shares in the holding company of a chain of beverage stores in Vietnam
- A regional investment fund: on various M&A transactions in Vietnam’s real estate sectors
- A leading French agricultural group: on the 100% acquisition of a company operating in seeds, agricultural products and fertilizers in Vietnam
- A European luxury hospitality group: on an acquisition in Vietnam and its expansion plans of an existing high-end resort in Phu Yen Province, Vietnam
- A US firm: on a number of acquisition deals in relation to various clients’ investments in local companies
- A regional agribusiness company: on its acquisition of 100% of the equity of a foreign-invested fish processing factory in the Mekong Delta area
- A high-profile real estate development company: on reviewing loan agreements and security agreements with a Vietnamese bank
- A Vietnamese mining company: on its private placements of total VND1,500bn bonds in 2018.