Chris Milliken

Practice Areas

Chris Milliken is a Counsel in our Ho Chi Minh City office, where he serves as the senior international lawyer. He has led several high-profile transactions in Vietnam and Southeast Asia, showcasing his expertise in corporate and finance law. Chris's practice spans mergers and acquisitions, private equity, joint ventures, financing, energy, and capital markets transactions. While he primarily focuses on Vietnam, his work across Asia has given him deep insights into M&A trends and practices regionally. He is particularly interested in public deals, large-scale M&A, complex investments, and energy matters.

Chris has dedicated significant resources to offshore listings and capital markets, frequently speaking at seminars and authoring numerous articles on these topics. Recently, Chris was the keynote speaker at a seminar on Hong Kong Listings, organized by our Freshfields Vietnam and Hong Kong offices on March 7, 2024. He provided valuable advice on navigating Vietnam’s evolving securities regimes and suggested compliant structures for issuers to meet both local and international regulations. This guidance offers Vietnam-incorporated companies a pathway to raise funds on prestigious platforms like the HKEX. Prior to this, he spoke at a Citibank seminar on fundraising and overseas listing considerations for tech companies in Vietnam, attended by over 100 tech start-ups.

Professional Memberships

Chris is a Vice Chairman of the British Chamber of Commerce in Vietnam and is a member of the Vietnam Business Forum’s Capital Markets Working Group, the Power and Energy Working Group and the Investment and Trade Working Group. He is also a member of the European Chamber of Commerce Vietnam's Green Growth Sector Committee and the British Chamber of Commerce Vietnam’s Energy Working Group.

Personal

BPP Law School (Legal Practice Course and Post-Graduate Diploma in Law) (2012)

University of Cambridge (MA, honors) (2010)