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Mr. Truong Nhat Quang is the Managing Partner of YKVN and has overall responsibility for the management of the firm. His practice focuses on banking and finance transactions. Mr. Quang's representative clients include Citibank N.A., Credit Lyonnais, the Asian Development Bank, Bank for Foreign Trade of Vietnam and Bank for Investment and Development of Vietnam.
Mr. Quang advises both lenders and borrowers on significant lending transactions in Vietnam. He is advising Vietnam Airlines Corporation on the US Eximbank financing of four Boeing 777 aircraft, which is the first US Eximbank financing in Vietnam and the ECGD-COFACE-HERMES-guaranteed financing of three Airbus 231-321 aircraft, which is the first combined European ECA guaranteed-financing in Vietnam. He was the lead Vietnamese lawyer advising the Asian Development Bank, ANZ Bank, Credit Lyonnais, Fortis Bank and Export-Import Bank of Malaysia Berhad on the financing of a BOT water treatment plant for Ho Chi Minh City at Thu Duc - one of the first limited recourse international BOT project financings in Vietnam. He recently advised Southern Steel Corporation on the preparation of the turnkey EPC contract for a steel-making plant, rolling mill and their utilities at Phu My I Industrial Zone, Baria Vungtau Province - the first EPC contract in the steel industry and one entirely financed by domestic banks.
Mr. Quang has participated in numerous lending transactions of international banks in Vietnam, including Citibank N.A., Bank of America, Credit Lyonnais and Chinfon Bank. Recent representative transactions include:
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Advising Citibank on a US $10 million loan to a Taiwanese shoe producer;
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Advising Citibank on the restructuring of its US $34 million loan to finance an office building in Ho Chi Minh City;
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Advising Citibank on a US $10 million loan to Vietnam Post and Telecommunications;
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Advising Citibank on the sale to another foreign bank branch in Vietnam of its US $38 million loan extended to a resort complex;
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Advising Citibank and Salomon Smith Barney on the provision of a US $70 million-equivalent VND syndicated loan facility to refinance project debt of Holcim Vietnam;
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Advising a syndicate of foreign bank branches and Vietnamese banks led by International Commercial Bank of China, Ho Chi Minh City Branch in the US $53 million financing of Phuc Son Cement Plant;
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Advising a syndicate of foreign bank branches and Vietnamese banks led by Chinfon Bank in the US $30 million-equivalent VND refinancing of US dollar project debt of Chinfon Cement Joint Venture -- the first Vietnamese syndicated loan facility agented by a foreign bank with all the four State-owned Vietnamese banks being participants;
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Advising a syndicate of banks led by Chinfon Bank on a US $33 financing of Saigon South project, Phase 3 of Phu My Hung project company;
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Advising a syndicate of banks led by Indovina Bank on the US $15 million refinancing of the offshore loans of the Horison Hotel project company;
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Advising a syndicate of banks led by Military Bank on a US $15 million financing of the construction of Vincom office building complex in Hanoi.
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Mr. Quang has represented all the four State-owned Vietnamese banks on significant lending transactions. Recent representative transactions include:
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Advising Bank for Investment and Devlopment of Vietnam and a syndicate of Vietnamese banks on a US $90 million financing of 100 MW Pleikrong Hydropower Plant;
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Advising Bank for Investment and Devlopment of Vietnam and a syndicate of Vietnamese banks on a US $110 million financing of 108 MW Se San 3A Hydropower Plant;
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Advising Bank for Investment and Devlopment of Vietnam and a syndicate of Vietnamese banks on a US $140 million financing of Binh Phuoc Cement Plant;
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Advising Bank for Investment and Devlopment of Vietnam and a syndicate of Vietnamese banks on a US $ 33 million refund guarantees for advanced payments in connection with the construction of five 50,000 DWT ships to be built by Vietnam Shipbuilding Corporation -- the first significant co-guarantee facility of Vietnamese banks;
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Advising Bank for Foreign Trade of Vietnam and a syndicate of foreign bank branches on a US $20 million refinancing of the offshore loans of Nghe An Tate & Lyle -- the first syndicate of foreign bank branches and Vietnamese banks agented by a Vietnamese bank;
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Advising Bank for Investment and Devlopment of Vietnam and a syndicate of banks on a US $33 million refinancing of project debt of Caravelle Hotel;
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Advising Bank for Foreign Trade of Vietnam on a US $15 million refinancing of the offshore loans of the Sun Red River Building project company;
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Advising Bank for Foreign Trade of Vietnam on a US $15 million financing and a subsequent US $4 million for the completion construction of Sheraton Hanoi Hotel and Towers, a 5-star international hotel in Hanoi; and
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Advising Bank for Investment and Development of Vietnam on the US $15 million financing of the United Nations International School (UNIS).
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Mr. Quang participated in the largest and most complex financial transaction of Vietnam in the 1994-1997 period -- the London Club restructuring of Vietnam's commercial debts. Mr. Quang was the lead lawyer of the Vietnamese team assisting White & Case to advise the Government of Vietnam and the State Bank of Vietnam.
Mr. Quang is named a "Recommended Individual" for "Project Finance" and for "Banking and Debt Finance" in Global Counsel 3000 (2002-2003) and a "Recommended Individual" for "Projects" and for "Banking and Finance" in Global Counsel 3000 (2003-2004).
Bar and Professional Associations
Hanoi Bar
Inter-Pacific Bar Association
Education
Hanoi National University, School of Law, LL.B., 1994
Publications, Speeches and Other Experience
Co-authored the Vietnamese chapter of Banking Yearbook 2004, International Financial Law Review, 2004.
Co-authored the Vietnamese chapter of Mergers and Acquisitions 2004, International Financial Law Review, 2004.
Co-authored BOT Project Financing in Vietnam, Asia Law, 2003.
Co-authored US Anti-dumping Law: What Does the Vietnamese Seafood Industry Have to Know, 2003.
Co-authored the Vietnamese chapter of Taking Security in Emerging Asian Markets, Asia Law, 1997.
Authored many articles on banking and financial law published in Vietnam Investment Review and Vietnam Economic Times.
Advised the Asian Development Bank and the International Development Law Institute on a 3-week ADB-sponsored training program on project finance for government officials and lectured on relevant Vietnamese law issues.
Email: quang.truong@ykvn-law.com
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