Le Hong Phong

Practice areas

Capital markets; corporate & commercial; M&A; private equity, venture capital & funds; project finance

Introduction

Phong Le is an equity partner at Bizconsult Law Firm with more than 20 years of professional experience. His practice focuses on investment projects (inbound and outbound), corporate and commercial transactions, mergers & acquisitions, banking & project finance, corporate restructuring, real estate & hospitality, tax, insurance and renewable energy (wind farms).

He has advised a broad range of clients, most of them being foreign clients, including banks and financial institutions, multinational corporations, foreign funds and asset investment companies, State corporations and private SMEs in various areas. His major corporate clients include 500 Fortune Clients (2021) like General Electrics (38), PepsiCo (44), Baker Hughes (14), DuPont (144), Grab, Cargill, Veolia Water Solutions, Xylem, Melchers GMBH &CO, Decathlon, Oxylane, AEON Delight, Goldbell Corporation, Mobilitas, DKSH, Great Eastern Life Insurance, Hyatt International Asia Pacific, EC Harris, Horiba and Piaggio.

Phong has been named in the A-List of Vietnam’s Top 100 Lawyers by Asia Business Law Journal (2020, 2021), as well as received a certificate of merits from Hanoi Bar, certificate of appreciation from The World Bank for five consecutive years for his contribution to “Doing Business in a More Transparent World”, lead author of “M&A – Vietnam Chapter” for “Getting the Deals Through” for nine consecutive years.

Phong completed the training course in advanced merger & acquisitions (2012) and due diligence (2014) organised by the Institute of Mergers, Acquisitions and Alliances, and special training in International Joint Ventures and International Merger & Acquisition organised by the College of Law of England & Wales in association with the International Bar Association (2007). Before that, he completed LLM at the Transnational Law & Business University (TLBU), Seoul, Korea (2005), where he had field studies to various international organisations (TLBU Institute in Paris, WTO & WIPO in Geneva, ICC & ICJ in Hague, EU Commission in Brussels), and studied LLB at Hanoi Law University in 1999. Phong was admitted to Hanoi Bar.

Phong is client minded and preferred local counsel choice of various leading regional and international law firms.

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