Vinh Tran is a counsel of TNP Lawyers. Attorney Vinh has over 15 years of experience working and consulting in all of the legal issues. He has extensive experience in advising domestic and foreign investors in a variety of areas of corporate and M&A, real estate, aviation, banking and finance. Vinh’s current main areas of practice are aircraft financing and leasing transactions and other corporate transactional and advisory matters.

Before working at TNP Lawyers, he was the legal head of a local commercial bank and a manager of a law firm within Big Four. Vinh speaks native Vietnamese and fluent English.

Experience

⦁ Advised two steps loan agreements from JBIC and significant Japanese banks for Vietcombank to set up two credit lines totaling up to USD5 million to support green energy and environmental preserving projects in Vietnam.
⦁ Advised Dakdrinh Hydropower JSC (PV Power DHC) on a $20 million loan agreement with the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) and Natixis Bank to refinance the 125MW Dakdrinh Hydropower Plant Project, the largest-scale project on the hydropower ladder system on the Tra Khuc river basin and a key work in the national electricity development planning. This is the first loan of AIIB, a multilateral development bank with 10 member countries, in the field of infrastructure and is a loan without government guarantee.
⦁ Assisted the merger in Vietnam in terms of obtaining the State Bank of Vietnam’s approval and other approvals for the transaction. The deal is global in scope and valued at USD 3.1 billion. It is also innovative because this was the first time two foreign banks have merged in the territory of Vietnam.
⦁ Advised a foreign credit institution on an acquisition of a weak performing local credit institution. The deal is completely novel and unprecedented.
⦁ Advised Vietnam Public Joint Stock Commercial Bank (PVCombank) on a USD 10 million loans with China Development Bank (Beijing) using LMA form.
⦁ Advised Vietcombank on a two-step loan agreement with JBIC, worth up to $ 20 million.