Banking & Finance

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Provided by VILAF

The Banking & Finance team of 20 lawyers advises multinational financial institutions and investors in relation to complex deals in financing manufacturing, acquisition, infrastructure, and energy projects in Vietnam and in securities transactions. 

VILAF provides advice across a wide range of financial products including asset finance, bonds, international listing transaction, IPO, derivatives, project finance, restructuring, and structured finance.

• Advised Citigroup as Vietnamese law counsel in the sale of its Vietnam retail banking business to United Overseas Bank (Vietnam) Limited (UOBV)
• Advised Long Son Petrochemicals Company Limited in the process of financing the US$3.2B development of Long Son Petrochemicals Complex in Long Son Industrial Zone, Ba Ria-Vung Tau
• Advised BNP Paribas, Crédit Agricole and Standard Chartered Bank as arrangers in the US$125M Reserve Based Lending Facility to SOCO International, secured against the Group’s producing assets in Vietnam, which include Te Giac Trang Field of Block 16-1, Ca Ngu Vang field of Block 9-2 and Blocks 125 & 126 offshore Vietnam
• Advised Rabobank in the loan to Japfa Vietnam worth US$30 million and in taking security interest over Swine from Japfa Vietnam
  
• Advised SCG Packaging in its combination of the Reg S and Rule 144A international offering of 137,344,388 shares to investors outside the US and Thailand and the domestic offering of 990,205,612 shares to investors in Thailand