About

Thuy Minh Lai is the chief administration officer and country legal counsel for the Vietnamese entity of Citibank, which became the first US bank to open in the country in 1994. Described as having a ‘high degree of flexibility and solution-driven approach to legal’, Lai leads legal support spanning all the group’s country activities across its retail, corporate and investment banking and global transaction services divisions. Known in the in-house community for her ‘broad experience’ across a range of industries and areas, Lai has encountered ‘extensive exposure to international and multi-jurisdictional issues in Europe, Asia and the USA’ in a career that has seen her spend over seven years as a senior lawyer at Freehills in Vietnam and over a decade at Citibank.