Phan Anh Vu is a partner at Indochine Counsel and co-heads the firm’s Corporate and M&A, and Projects & Infrastructure practice groups. With over 20 years of legal and business consulting experience in Vietnam, he specializes in inward investment, mergers & acquisitions, corporate & commercial law, and real estate & construction. His expertise extends to securities, project financing, energy, and insolvency & restructuring.
Prior to joining Indochine Counsel, he worked as an associate and deputy legal manager for a major local law firm, Vision & Associates (2004-2006). He began his career as in-house counsel for 7 years at a large State-owned company (28 Corporation / AGTEX), operating in the fields of garment & textile, fuel petrol and real estate.
With in-depth knowledge of business law, Vu has advised and acted as a legal counsel in a number of investment projects and commercial transactions for some major foreign and local investors in Vietnam, including Gimpex Limited, Vietnam Alliance Minerals, Hoan My Medical Corp, Victoria Healthcare, ILA Vietnam, Raffles Education, HR2B Vietnam, Turner & Townsend, Sumitomo Electric Device Innovations, Chevron Lubricant Vietnam Ltd., Truong Hai Auto Corporation (THACO), Savico Corporation, Golden Pig JSC, Saigon Paper, Trung Nguyen Group, Triumph Vietnam, Vietfund Management, Dong A Fund Management Corp, Southern Bank, Gulf Developers, Guthrie GTS Limited, and ZarubezhEnergoProekt Europe Ltd.
He is a regular contributor to legal journals such as Asian-Mena Counsel, and has also written extensively on business law topics for business newspapers in Vietnam. He has also been a local contributor for “Doing Business Project – Vietnam” of World Bank from 2007.
He has successfully completed the CEDR Training Course (a six-day course) and has been certified as a CEDR Accredited Mediator. The training course organized by CEDR, the largest conflict management and resolution consultancy in the world with the collaboration of the Ministry of Justice, IFC Vietnam and VIAC (Vietnam International Arbitration Centre) in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.