Allen & Overy Announces Vietnam Expansion with the Hire of Tran Anh Duc

Allen & Overy today announced the lateral hire of Tran Anh Duc from Vilaf, one of Vietnam’s leading local law firms. Duc’s practice spans over 18 years and is a blend of corporate and banking work, with a focus on large scale power projects and debt and equity capital market issuances. He will co-head the banking and corporate practices alongside Adam Moncrieff (who has recently relocated from Allen and Overy’s Tokyo office) and Dao Nguyen. Duc will also be head of Allen & Overy’s Hanoi branch.

Duc was previously the managing partner of Vilaf. His addition will take the Vietnam team to 18 lawyers across both the Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City offices. Although split across two locations, it is one team.

Commenting on the announcement, Allen & Overy’s Vietnam Managing Partner Dao Nguyen, said: “The combination of our on-the-ground team together with the addition of Duc will put Allen & Overy in an unique position when competing in this market. We are highly ambitious and we believe Duc’s appointment will help us to achieve top tier recognition across all our core practice areas.”

Allen & Overy announced the launch of its Vietnam offering in May 2012. The addition of Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City increased Allen & Overy’s network to 42 offices in 29 countries around the world – the largest global footprint among the leading global law firms. The ASEAN community is currently at 600 million people, the second largest grouping of countries after the EU. Vietnam’s GDP growth averaged 7.1 percent per annum between 2000-2011. Despite the recent volatility in global markets, China is the only Asian economy to have grown faster than Vietnam since 2000.

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