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Mr. John R. Davis is a Senior Foreign Lawyer of YKVN and has more than 17 years of experience as a lawyer in both Asia and the U.S. His practice focuses on corporate and financial transactions, especially cross-border ones, for domestic and international investors. For 7 years he was based in White & Case LLP's Hanoi office and involved in matters for clients in Vietnam and most of the other ASEAN countries. He is licensed by Vietnam's Ministry of Justice as a foreign lawyer in Vietnam.
In addition to his transactional practice, Mr. Davis is active as a consultant to governments in the region. He advises them on the reform of laws affecting commerce and on regulatory issues, especially those related to competition law. In the area of investment, Mr. Davis advises regarding the formation and operation of joint ventures and 100% foreign-owned enterprises including issues regarding BOT projects, tax consequences of corporate structures, the leasing and purchase of land and buildings and the restructuring of debt. In banking matters, he represents banks in complex lending transactions in Vietnam and advises them with respect to operational and regulatory issues. He has been involved in significant cross-border acquisitions by Korean, Malaysian, Thai as well as Vietnamese companies. Mr. Davis is a member of the team that advised the State Bank of Vietnam on the restructuring of Vietnam's commercial debt in the London Club, and the issuance of $543 million of Brady Bonds and their listing on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange. He also advised the People's Bank of China on the regulatory framework for China's asset management companies, the Malaysian GLC and the Ministry of Finance of Malaysia in the acquisition of a strategic stake in an American aircraft manufacturer. His partial client list includes Asian Development Bank, State Bank of Vietnam, People's Bank of China, Ministry of Finance of Malaysia, Citibank, Bank of America, Deutsche Bank, Credit Lyonnais, Chase Manhattan Bank, Chinfon Bank, Procter & Gamble, Morgan Stanley, Pfizer, Bristol-Myers-Squibb, Banpu Power, Monsanto, Siam Cement, Daewoo Electronics, LG Electronics and China Construction Holdings. Bar Admissions • Supreme Court of Wisconsin • U.S. District Court, Western District of Wisconsin • U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit • U.S. Tax Court • U.S. Supreme Court • Ministry of Justice of Vietnam (Foreign Lawyer) Education Boston College, A.B., 1970 Political Science & Economics University of Wisconsin - Madison, Ph.D., 1986, M.A., 1976 Political Science J.D., 1989 Law Languages English (native speaker), Indonesian; Working knowledge: Spanish, Vietnamese Publications, Speeches and Other Experience "Economic Analysis in Enforcement of Indonesia's Competition Law by the KPPU." Presented at the 3rd Asian Law Institute Conference, Shanghai, May 25-26, 2006. "The KPPU As a New Kind of Player in Indonesia's Legal System" in Timothy Lindsey (ed.) Indonesia: Law & Society 2nd edition (Melbourne: Federation Press, forthcoming 2006). "Legal Systems of the World: Bhutan" in Herbert M. Kritzer (ed.) Legal Systems of the World: A Political, Social and Cultural Encyclopedia (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO Press, 2002). "Parallel Development of Economic Regulation and Judicial Review" (in Indonesian), Hukum Bisnis (Jakarta), November 2003. "Changing Legal Environment for Vietnamese BOT Projects" (with Truong Nhat Quang). Vietnam Investment Review (March 11 and 18, 2000). Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Economics, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok Thailand, 2005 - present Email: john.davis@ykvn-law.com |
