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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 law at the leading local banks in Vietnam, Van is recognized as a lawyer 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 legal 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.
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;
- Represented 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; and
- Participated in developing and reviewing regulations, processes, rules, and templates in the business operations of the local banks to ensure legality, and compliance, and mitigate potential risks for all parties.
- Advised and represented the local banks 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 the leading local bank in Vietnam in the major criminal case of Thai Nguyen Iron and Steel;
- Representing the leading local bank 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;
- Represented the leading local bank in Vietnam in resolving a dispute between a Vietnamese lender and a leading Vietnamese fashion company with a disputed value of hundreds of billions of VND;
- Represented a leading local bank in Vietnam to successfully negotiate and settle debt with one of the largest real estate developer in Hai Duong province, with a debt value of thousands of billions of VND;
- Advised and represented the leading local bank in various debt settlements having more than a hundred billion VND;
- Represented individual clients to protect assets worth hundreds of billions of VND in a major criminal case involving a project company in Nhon Trach District, Dong Nai Province; and
- Represented an A-list artist in a dispute over the sale of equity shares in a major entertainment company in Vietnam.
- 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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