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Mr. Vu Dzung is a Partner of YKVN and is based the Ho Chi Minh City office. His practice focuses on banking & finance transactions, corporate matters and litigation. Mr. Dzung's representative clients include Citibank N.A., Bank for Foreign Trade of Vietnam, Bank for Investment and Development of Vietnam, Vietnam Airlines Corporation, and Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters & Producers (VASEP).
Mr. Dzung participates in many significant financing transactions in Vietnam. He has advised 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 321-231 aircraft, which is the first combined European ECA guaranteed-financing in Vietnam.
Mr. Dzung has represented international banks and Vietnamese banks in numerous lending transactions. Recent representative transactions include:
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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 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 a syndicate of foreign bank branches and Vietnamese banks led by International Commercial Bank of China 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 Bank for Investment and Development 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 Investment and Development 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 Development 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 53,000 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 Investment and Development of Vietnam and a syndicate of banks on a US $23 million financing of a new production line of Orion-Hanel Picture Tube Joint Venture;
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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 Foreign Trade of Vietnam on a US $6.7 million financing for development of the Nam Hai Resort in Quang Nam province;
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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 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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Mr. Dzung regularly advises multinationals and foreign invested companies operating in Vietnam on general corporate, trade, tax and intellectual issues and also represents them in litigation and arbitration proceedings.
Bar and Professional Associations
Hanoi Bar
Inter-Pacific Bar Association
Education
Hanoi National University, School of Law, LL.B., 2000
Hanoi Foreign Language University, BA major in English, 1999
AOTS/JIII Industrial Property Rights Training Course for Lawyers in Japan, 2003
Publications, Speeches and Other Experience
Co-authored the Vietnamese chapter of Banking Yearbook 2004, International Financial Law Review, 2004.
Co-authored certain articles on banking and financial law published in Vietnam Investment Review and Vietnam Economic Times.
Email: vdzung@ykvn-law.com
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