Scope of services
Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) have become familiar in Vietnam in recent years, particularly as globalisation has become widespread. Broadly, M&A is a useful tool for expanding business markets and restructuring companies, offering investors many benefits.
M&A also involves risks. In Vietnam, its legal framework is not consolidated but spread across different laws, including the Law on Enterprises, Law on Investment and Commercial Law, which can create uncertainty for investors during implementation.
Penfield’s lawyers have extensive experience in many forms of M&A, including transactions between domestic businesses and cross-border transactions.
We focus particularly on legal issues and corporate risk management to offer multidimensional, safe and effective M&A solutions, save costs, minimise investors’ risks and ensure transactions proceed on a sound legal foundation.
Our advisory services include:
- Advising on and conducting legal due diligence on the business involved in an acquisition and assessing transaction risks relating to assets, markets, employment, tax, intellectual property and other matters;
- Advising clients throughout negotiation of M&A terms through to signing the M&A agreement;
- Assessing market risk appetite to advise on an effective, suitable and cost-efficient M&A structure and limit potential legal issues;
- Supporting legal procedures to obtain the licences, consents and approvals required for M&A.