Member

Sun Life Financial, Ho Chi Minh City July 2018 - Present
Legal Manager
Products Distribution
• Advise legal risks regarding the use of disciplinary actions against individual agents for market
conduct violations under agency agreement and agency management agreement.
• Advise the legal strategy regarding business partnership with other non-life insurers to
promote products distribution.
Corporate Governance
• Advise reforms regarding structure and meetings of Members’ Council/Board and its
Committees Reform;
• Advise regarding requirements of management recruitments;
• Draft and advise the implementation of the internal regulation on the use and management of
corporate seals;
• Advise amendments/supplements regarding Charters of Committees and Policy Approval
Committee regarding its scope, authority and process;
• Advise on internal and external authorization matter;
• Advise on capital increase; and
• Advise and review internal policies, standards and operating guidelines (P/S/OGs) and the
local P/S/OGs source.

Baker & McKenzie, Ho Chi Minh City 2006 – 2008; 2017 - 2018
Trainee Solicitor
International Law
• International trade law: Advise a foreign invested company of available claims under the WTO
law regarding the nature of the GATS schedules of specific commitments and the reference of
Central Product Classification.
• International Investment Law and Arbitration: Assist international counsels and a witness
expert of the Defendant (a State) in a landmark case regarding international investment at the
International Court of Arbitration.
Contract Law, Project Finance, Private Public Partnership
• Advise sponsors and the project company during the development phase of an offshore wind
farm project in the Mekong Delta.
• Assist in preparation of advices to a foreign contractor during the bidding process of a Design-
Build-Operate wasterwater treatment project funded by the World Bank.
M&A, Capital Market, Finance and Banking
• Advise and assist numbers of cross-border credits and loan facilities.
• Advise and assist numbers of M&A and capital market transactions, including conduct legal
due diligence.
• Advise debt-restructuring matters.
• Advise banking matters.
Anti-corruption, Compliance and Domestic Disputes
• Conduct a compliance interview with the top management of a multi-national firm in relation to
a tendering matter.
• Assist unfair competition litigation and enforcement of intellectual property rights cases/matters
at Vietnamese courts.

YKVN Lawyers, Ho Chi Minh City 2016 - 2017
Trainee Lawyer
Contract Law, Project Finance, Private Public Partnership
• Advise sponsors in reaching the Financial Close of a 2.2 billion USD power plant project in the
Mekong Delta.
• Advise lenders during the operation phase of a Build-Operate-Transfer power plant project in
the Northern Vietnam.
• Advise investors during the development phase of a Build-Transfer road project in contract
matters with the Ho Chi Minh People’s Committee.
M&A, Capital Market, Finance and Banking
• Advise and assist numbers of M&A and capital market transactions, including conduct legal
due diligence.
• Advise banking matters.
Anti-corruption, Compliance and Domestic Disputes
• Lead and conduct a compliance investigation for a multi-national firm in the event of a
whistleblower’s report regarding its operation in Vietnam.
• Advise to settle a dispute between shareholders relating to the operation of a luxury
hillside resort in the Central Vietnam.

UNAKRT (known as the Khmer Rouge Tribunal), Phnom Penh 2010; 2013 - 2015
Interpretation and Translation Unit
• Assist the Interpretation and Translation Unit in translating legal documents from English to
Vietnamese for the expanded investigation of Case 003 and Case 004.
Defence Section
• Assist defence counsels in defending a charge of crime against humanity against Case 002 on
Ieng Sary.

International Commission of Jurists, Bangkok 2014
Research Fellow on Southeast Asia rule of law, justice and human rights
• Research on right to counsel in Vietnam;
• Organize and participate in two judicial dialogues for judges and jurists in the Southeast Asia
region on the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against
Women (CEDAW) implementation and gender stereotypes elimination, and challenging human
rights cases; and
• Comment on the draft revised-bill on enforced disappearance of the House of the Philippines.

Transtec, Vietnam project 2014
Consultant for Evaluation
• Assist the evaluation of the Civil Society Empowerment in Advocacy and Policy Development
project in Viet Nam funded by UN Democracy Fund.

Social Impact, Vietnam projects 2012 - 2013
Consultant for Evaluation
• Assist Social Impact on its bidding process to the USAID/Viet Nam evaluation and survey
services.
• Assist the evaluation of the USAID/RDMA Regional Environment Office-led Asia’s Regional
Response to Endangered Species Trafficking (ARREST) program.
• Assist the evaluation for the USAID funded Kon Ray Boarding School project in Kon Tum
province, the High Land Central Viet Nam.

Norwegian Centre for Human Rights, Oslo 2011
Research Intern of Socio-Economic Rights Programme
• Business and Human Rights: Research on international human rights law framework on the
global mining industry for the Socio-Economic Rights Programme, specialized on Mongolia.

UNDP, Ha Noi 2006; 2008
Consultant for research
• Participate in a UNDP research about urban poverty.
• Participate in a UNDP study of migrants.

Oxfam Great Britain, Hanoi 2005 - 2006
Intern of Education Programme
• Assist education projects to advocate for child centered teaching method in primary schools in
Vietnam.

UN Volunteers, Hanoi 2004 - 2005
Volunteer
• United Nations awards the winner of the “Youth initiative to promote volunteerism for the
MDGs”.

Skills
1. Expertise in International Law, Human Rights and Business, Project Finance, International
Investment and Trade Law, International Criminal Law, and Vietnamese Law.

2. Knowledge of ASEAN, American Law, Cambodian Law, EU Law, Construction Contracts (FIDIC),
Alternative Dispute Resolution, Climate Change, Project Management and Evaluation, Corporate
Governance, Commercial Mediation, and Social Safeguards Policies of Multinational
Development Banks.

3. Vietnamese (native), English (fluent), Khmer (conversational), French and Chinese (beginner).