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Hanh Tran
Work Department
Vietnam
Position
Partner and Co-Managing Director, Vietnam
Career
Hanh is a leading Vietnamese-qualified lawyer, with more than 18 years’ experience of advising leading multinational clients and financial institutions on complex corporate law matters in Vietnam and Cambodia. Before joining DFDL in 2006, Hanh worked at the European Commission in Vietnam where she was responsible for the legal aspects of the EC’s development projects in Vietnam, and prior to that she was the head of the corporate secretary division of KPMG Cambodia.
Hanh advises clients predominantly on complex Project Finance, Real Estate and Corporate and Commercial matters. Some of the most significant transactions she has advised on include the Chinese state bank financing of USD 421 million as well as the refinancing to a telecom company in Cambodia, a major port project with project value worth approximately USD 300 million and, most recently, the acquisition of a stake in a Cambodian hydropower project by a major Chinese SOE.
Languages
She speaks Vietnamese, French and English.
Education
Hanh holds a Lawyer Certificate (Judicial Academy Institute of Vietnam), Master’s in international business (University of Tours, France), Bachelor’s in law (Hanoi National University) and a Bachelor in Foreign Languages ‒ French and English (Hanoi Foreign Language College).
Lawyer Rankings
Vietnam > Corporate and M&A
DFDL Legal & Tax houses a well established corporate practice that regularly advises local and international clients on M&A, joint ventures and foreign investments. The group has particular expertise in the TMT, manufacturing, real estate, oil and gas and renewables sectors. In Ho Chi Minh City, practice head Jérôme Buzenet focuses on M&A, private equity and restructuring, and Martin Desautels is an expert in corporate and M&A. Other key figures in the corporate team include Hanh Tran and Kevin Hawkins, both of whom are based in Ho Chi Minh City, and Thang Huynh in Hanoi.