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Van Dao
Van is a counsel at Ngo & Partners and focuses on banking, civil, and dispute resolution, especially debt collection. With nearly 20 years of practicing at the leading local banks in Vietnam, such as Vietinbank and PG Bank, Van is recognized as an expert with profound experience in banking, especially in administration and operation, and recovering huge and doubtful debts for the major local banks.
With extensive experience in this field, Van can provide thorough, comprehensive, and effective solutions in solving matters related to operations, management, and doubtful debt collection for local and international banks in Vietnam. In addition, Van can also provide practical and feasible negotiation solutions for organizations and individuals who are arranging debt repayment to banks.
Before joining Ngo & Partners as the counsel, Van was a senior in-house counsel at a leading local bank in Vietnam, such as Vietinbank and PG Bank.
Highlight Works
- Drafting, advising, reviewing, and negotiating with clients of the banks in signing and implementing contracts and transactions for business activities of leading local banks in Vietnam, such as Vietinbank and PG Bank;
- Represented Vietinbank, a leading local bank of Vietnam, in negotiating a significant and complex credit agreement with a leading corporation of Vietnam;
- Advised on the legal perspective on products, drafting or standardizing templates for use at leading local banks in Vietnam, such as Vietinbank and PG Bank; and
- Advising Gong Cha Vietnam in relation to the internal audit process of Gong Cha Global and the key issues of the Master Franchise Agreement; and
- Advising NanoFilm in relation to the ownership of the factory in Vietnam as well as the issuance of the Land Use Right Certificate.
- Advised and represented the local banks in Vietnam, such as Vietinbank and PG Bank, in negotiations with clients as well as in debt trading, litigation, and enforcement of awards or judgments to settle and recover debts for local banks;
- Represented Vietinbank, a leading local bank in Vietnam, in the major criminal case of Thai Nguyen Iron and Steel;
- Representing Vietinbank, a leading local bank in Vietnam, in the dispute between a Vietnamese lender with the foreign-invested developer at the luxury condominium project located in District 1 of Ho Chi Minh City with the total value of the dispute is nearly 16 million USD;
- Advised operations of May Social Company which was founded by Actress Truong Ngoc Anh and her colleagues to run charity programs on children, life, and the environment;
- Advised the Mobile Science Lab Experience Program - a social program for elementary and secondary school students, implemented in Vietnam by May Social Company in collaboration with a leading Multi-National Pharmaceutical Corporation; and
- Advised the Agama Experience Program - Returning to True Mind, an experiential program aimed at creating a favorable environment for people to find stillness, delve deep into their inner selves, and achieve balance in life. This is a social program organized and implemented by May Social Company in collaboration with Samten Hills Dalat.
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