Yee Chung Seck > Baker McKenzie > Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam > Lawyer Profile

Baker McKenzie has extensive expertise in data protection and privacy issues that arise from transactions or companies’ daily operations. Practice head Tran Manh Hung in Hanoi handles a broad range of data protection and privacy issues, with particular emphasis on cybersecurity, offshore social media, digital services, data breaches and other emerging techs. Leading the TMT group, Yee Chung Seck in Ho Chi Minh City is ‘well-versed in data protection on a global scale’ and regularly advises global tech, fintech, e-commerce and social media sector clients on regulatory issues. In Ho Chi Minh City, the group also includes Thu Minh Le who is another key contact for privacy and data protection as well as TMT matters, and Huu Tuan Nguyen who also specialises in IP and tech. Huyen Minh Nguyen in Hanoi is another key tech expert in the firm.

Baker McKenzie houses ‘a team of professionals with diverse expertise’ with deep knowledge of real estate and property law. The group advises on a broad range of real estate transactions, especially ones involving logistics and industrial real estate, and has unique capabilities in the hotel, resort and tourism sectors. The team is also experienced in the legal aspects of the commercial use of land, and commercial leasing for high-profile individuals. Practice heads Yee Chung Seck and the ‘very responsive and talented’ Lan Phuong Nguyen are both experts in real estate M&A. The group also includes Phuc Thuy Hien Nguyen who is an expert in leasing, environment and construction matters, and Quyet Thang Ho in Hanoi who focuses on hotel management contracts.

Baker McKenzie advises leading tech and internet companies, as well as a broad range of other multijurisdictional businesses, on the full range of TMT matters. The group has particular expertise in personal date protection, privacy and cybersecurity law. The team is led by reputed TMT specialist Yee Chung Seck in Ho Chi Minh City who advises clients such as global tech, fintech, e-commerce and social media companies on a broad range of TMT matters, and is particularly skilled in work relating to M&A, while Manh Hung Tran in Hanoi, who is ‘an exceptional lawyer’ and an expert in privacy and cybersecurity, handles offshore, social media, digital servicing, date breaches and incidents. In Ho Chi Minh City, Thu Minh Le advises on a broad range of privacy and date protection matters, and Huu Tuan Nguyen has a broad TMT practice. The group also includes Huyen Minh Nguyen in Hanoi who specialises in tech.

With particular skill advising on cross-border mandates, Baker McKenzie in Ho Chi Minh City focuses on large scale public and private M&A. The group has broad knowledge and ‘diversified experience’ in matters such as regulatory and licensing, foreign direct investment and private equity transactions, and advises across a wide range of sectors such as energy and infrastructure, real estate, manufacturing and healthcare. The practice is led by Yee Chung Seck, who advises on a diverse range of investments and M&A, as well as on commercial contracts and regulatory compliance, and Lan Phuong Nguyen, who is praised as ‘an excellent lawyer’. The group also includes Thi Thanh Le, who focuses on M&A and foreign direct investment into Vietnam, and Tran Yen Trang Phan, who handles a range of commercial, global business and corporate matters. Chi Hoang Yen Ngo is another key figure in the team. Christopher Milliken joined the firm from Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in early 2025.