Vision & Associates

Firm Details:
Website: https://vision-associates.com/
Tel: (84-24) 39340629
Fax: (84-24) 39340631
Managing Partners: Mr. PHAM Nghiem Xuan Bac
Number of Partners: 14
Number of Fee Earners: 100 (including partners)
Languages: Vietnamese, English.

Firm Details:
Founded in 1999 by Mr Pham Nghiem Xuan Bac and other partners, Vision & Associates (V&A) became a leading legal and consulting company in Vietnam. The firm’s members commit to provide a full range of professional services to clients, with practical solutions at the most competitive price. V&A is staffed with over 90 lawyers, patent and trademark attorneys and consultants, and structured into three practice groups, namely legal practice, IP practice, and investment and business consulting practice, which work closely with one another to take advantage of their combined knowledge in order to provide full and comprehensive services to clients. The firm serves clients via two offices located in two development hubs of Vietnam: Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City.

Acknowledging that people are the most important factor in ensuring a company’s long term success, V&A places special emphasis on human resources development by recruiting and training talented young lawyers and consultants. It will continue to invest in its people, so that the firm has the ability to anticipate changes and look to the future, as its name implies.

PRACTICE AREAS

1. Legal Practice: 11 partners, 38 fee earners

V&A, together with its legal arm, V&A Legal, provides services in all aspects of corporate, investment, contract, commercial, banking, financial, construction, competition, IT, employment and litigation laws in Vietnam, particularly:

■ Foreign Investment:

Key Clients: BCG, Motorola, BakerHughes, Cargill, TNS, Arcelor-Mittal, Thyssen, AVK, Marubeni, Sumitomo, Sony, Sojitz, Yamato, Youngone, Keppel Land, Toll.

Contacts:LE Quynh Anh, NGO Trung Hieu, NGUYEN Thi Thanh Xuan

■ Commercial/Corporate:

Key Clients: MCG, Coffey, Motorola, Rolls Royce, Boehringer Ingelheim, Chemtura, Boeing, Unilever, Chevron, Diebold, Under Armour, Bodum, Michelin, Motul, Murray Goulbum, Azelis, Saint Gobain, Sunrider, Synergy, Ferrero, John Lewis, BP Castrol.

Contacts: NGO Trung Hieu, DANG Trong Hieu, NGUYEN Thi Thanh Xuan

■ M&A/Due Diligence:

Key Clients: Alfa Laval, AIG, SwissRe, Sanyo, Sony, Ebara, Olam, DWS, VOF, Rieke, RHB.

Contacts:PHAM Nghiem Xuan Bac, LUU Tien Ngoc, DANG Trong Hieu, NGO Trung Hieu

■ Banking, Finance & Securities:

Key Clients: ANZ, HSBC, BTMU, MSIG, SMBC, SocGen, CA-CIB, Rabo Bank, KEB, KDB, OCBC, CDB, ICBC, WB, ADB.

Contacts: PHAM Nghiem Xuan Bac, LUU Tien Ngoc, NGO Trung Hieu, DANG Trong Hieu

■ Construction/Real Estate:

Key Clients: Hanshin, Lotte, Posco E&C, Obayashi, Kume Sekkei, Keppel Land, Intra, SP Chemicals, Daewoo E&C, Hyundai RNC, Berjaya, Gamuda Land.

Contacts: LE Quynh Anh, NGO Trung Hieu

■ Technology/Media/Telecoms:

Key Clients: Discovery, Expedia, Yahoo!, Motorola, Microsoft, AOL, Boeing, Platinum, Universal Telecom, Virtustream, NEC, Fujitsu, Prowtech, Denso, Ajinomoto, Atotech, Siemens, Bayer, Axiata, Baidu, PCCW Media, CJ.

Contacts: DANG Trong Hieu, LE Tuan Anh, LUU Tien Ngoc, NGUYEN Thi Thu Ha

■ Employment Relations:

Key Clients: Honda, Nissan Techno, Fujitsu, Yahoo!, Samsung, LG Electronics, Wartsila, Nortel, Obayashi, Toyota, Chevron, Herbalife, Sherwin-Williams.

Contacts: LE Tuan Anh, LE Quynh Anh, NGUYEN Thi Thanh Xuan

■ Competition & Consumer:

Key Clients: Chevron, Michelin, Total, Eneous, Ajinomoto.

Contacts: LUU Tien Ngoc, DANG Trong Hieu, NGO Trung Hieu

■ Insurance:

Key Clients: MSIG, AIG, UIC, MTL, MunichRe, BIC, PJICO.

Contacts: LUU Tien Ngoc, NGO Trung Hieu, DANG Trong Hieu

■ Dispute Resolution:

Key Clients: Fujita, LG, Taya, Readymix Concrete, PT Vietmindo, Air Liquide.

Contacts: PHAM Nghiem Xuan Bac, LE Quynh Anh, DANG Trong Hieu, LE Tuan Anh, NGUYEN Thi Thu Ha

2. Intellectual Property Practice 4 partners, 62 fee earners.

V&A deals with all aspects of IPRs in Vietnam, with extensions to Laos and Cambodia. The firm's services include: advising on IP laws, filing and prosecution of applications for trademarks, designs, patents and copyrights, conducting of availability searches, assignments and renewals, taking procedures for oppositions and cancellations, negotiations, etc.

Key Clients: HP, Aeon, Fuji, Christian Dior, Wells Fargo, Dunlopillo, Universal, Roche, Abbott, Mitsubishi, Suntory, 3M, Nike, Colgate-Palmolive, Daikin, Nippon, Lixil, Samsung, etc.

Contacts: PHAM Nghiem Xuan Bac, NGUYEN Nguyet Dzung, DO Quang Hung, NGUYEN Thi Thu Ha, NGUYEN Huong Giang, NGUYEN Thi Van

3. Investment & Business Consulting Practice: 2 partners, 5 fee earners.

V&A specialises in providing clients with consulting services (including business idea and finalisation, equitisation/ privatisation and restructuring, technical assistance projects).

Key Clients: WB, ADB, DANIDA, DFID, GTZ, USTDA, JBIC, etc.

Contacts: PHAM Nghiem Xuan Bac, LUU Tien Ngoc

Hanoi Office

Unit 308-310, 3rd Fl., Hanoi Towers,

49 Hai Ba Trung, Hoan Kiem, Hanoi, Vietnam

Tel: (84-24) 39340629 | Fax.: (84-24) 39340631

E-mail: [email protected]