
MR DO DUC CHINH
Head of Foreign Investment & Intellectual Property Department
M: 0936 572 335
E: ducchinh@laf.vn
A: 4th Floor, The Sun Building, Me Tri Str., Nam Tu Liem District, Hanoi.
Loyal – Accurate – Flexible
OVERVIEW
Duc Chinh joined Le & Associates in 2020, specialized in investment project, commercial transaction. In parallel with his legal expertise, Duc Chinh accumulated knowledge in finance, business, accounting and tax.
EXPERIENCE
– Legal compliance due diligence of urban, commercial residential projects developed on landbank created by the relocation of old industrial facilities of state-owned enterprises (in 2020, Hanoi, scale of about 11 hectares; in 2021, Ho Chi Minh city, scale of about 03 hectares);
– Real estate projects of foreign investors: amendment to the in-principle approval of a park & commercial housing project, under the purview of Prime Minister (2022-2025, Hanoi, scale of about 300 hectares); amendment to the in-principle approval of an urban area project, under the purview of Prime Minister (from 2024, Ho Chi Minh city, scale of about 350 hectares); due diligence and advice on a resort, casino and residential integrated project (2024, Quang Nam province, scale of about 980 hectares); amendment to the in-principle approval of an urban area project developed on a piece of land as payment for the Build-Transfer contract (2024-2025, Hanoi, scale of about 82 hectares); advice on the final account of a Build-Transfer project (from 2025, Hanoi); application for in-principle approval of a new urban area project developed on a piece of land as payment for the Build-Transfer contract (from 2025, Hanoi, scale of 74 hectares);
– Merger and acquisition: capital transfer and joint venture with E1 Corporation (2021-2022, drafting and negotiating, LPG warehouse project, Quang Ninh province); capital transfer and joint venture with Misubishi Estate Vietnam (2022, drafting and negotiating, residential apartment project, Hanoi); transfer of Paula’s Choice Vietnam cosmetic import & distribution business to Unilever (2021-2025, negotiating, drafting, closing and post-closing, Hanoi);
– Dispute resolution (VIAC): 06 disputes with Vietnam Airports Corporation – JSC due to its payment defaults in several airport construction contracts (2021).
EDUCATION
– Bachelor of Economic Law – Hanoi Law University;
– Graduated from Lawyer Training Course – Judicial Academy of Vietnam.
PROFESSIONAL FIELD OF PRACTICE
– Development of real estate and other land-use projects (residential, commercial, industrial);
– Meger and acquisition, negotiation and commercial contracts;
– Dispute resolution (commercial arbitration).