Ngoc Truong has over a decade of extensive experience advising domestic, multinational companies on mergers and acquisitions, private equity, corporate restructurings, financings, joint venture and data protection compliance matters. Prior to founding TRUNOLD, Ms. Truong worked at top-tier US and German law firms.
A member of Vietnam Bar Federation and Ho Chi Minh City Bar Association, Ms. Truong is a graduate of Leibniz Universitaet Hannover (LL.M., 2016) and Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City – Faculty of Law (LL.B., 2008).
Ms. Truong speaks Vietnamese and English.
Representative Matters
Merger and Acquisitions
- Advising investors and PE funds in developing and selling renewable energy projects.
- Advising the owners on the disposal of their hospitality business.
- Advising an emerging confectionary manufacturing in the sale and issuance of shares.
- Advising Singapore PEs in acquiring shares in Vietnamese companies operating in education, seafood, consuming goods, interior design furniture via way of convertible loans.
- Advising the shareholders on disposal of beverage business.
- Advising Hong Kong Buyer on acquisition of Geo-technology Company in Vietnam.
- Advising SGX listed buyer on acquisition of dairy company in Vietnam.
- Advising majority shareholders on the part disposal of HOSE listed beverage business.
- Part of team advising a U.S corporation acquiring shares in a Vietnamese Telecommunication Company.
- Part of the team advising a foreign fund acquiring shares in a Vietnamese Coffee Group in Vietnam.
- Part of the team advising HOSE-listed Diary Company listing on SGX.
Project Financings
- Advising a subsidiary of a German leading manufacturing company in obtaining long-term facility and working capital facility from a leading local bank and Deutsche Bank.
- Part of team advising a real estate developer in obtaining a US$80mln syndicated loan from leading local banks in Vietnam to finance for the construction of a symbolic financial tower in Saigon.
Business Structuring
- Advising a subsidiary of German leading manufacturing company on all organizational matters in relation to its operational and business activities.
- Advising a Vietnamese Information and Technology Company on corporate restructuring for expansion and capital mobilization.
- Advising a US leading manufacturing company on re-organizational matters in relation to the operation of its Vietnamese subsidiary.
- Advising a Canadian-based IT services company to establish its legal presence in Vietnam.
- Advising an NYSE-listed IT Outsourcing Service Company to relocate its business structure and operation from BVI to Cyprus.
- Advising a US company on establishment of its distribution platform in Vietnam.
Data Protection
- Advising NGOs and international companies having legal presences in Vietnam on potential GDPR (DSGVO) risks arising out of Vietnam’s cybersecurity regulations.
- Advising a Hong Kong Company to set up privacy policy, terms of use, cookie policy and e-commerce structure applied for its social media network specializing in health and fitness sector.
Litigation
- Part of the team representing subsidiary of a Fortune 500 company in a dispute with a Vietnamese partner.
Education
- Leibniz Universitaet Hannover – Master of Laws in IT & IP Laws, 2016.
- University of Strathclyde – Postgraduate student, 2016.
- Ho Chi Minh City National University – Faculty of Law, LL.B., 2008.
Admission and Association
- Ho Chi Minh City Bar Association, 2014.
- Vietnam Bar Federation, 2014.