Vietnam Business Merger and Acquisition (M&A) Forum in 2020 was held with the theme “Rising in a new normal state”. The M&A Forum 2020 offers many perspectives on Vietnam’s M&A market in the past year and prospects for the coming year. Will the M&A wave explode in Vietnam in 2021? Legal change in 2021 In…
In 2019-2020, real estate, banking, agriculture, retailing are the Vietnam M&A most attractive fields. Masan’s transactions were nominated as the most featured transactions in the year. The article shall figure out 10 featured M&A cases in 2019-2020. Within the topic “Arise in the new normal” in Vietnam 2020 M&A forum, organizers and the council have…
According to experts at the Vietnam M&A Forum on November 24, the Vietnam merger-acquisition (M&A) market in the near future will strongly recover as investors are in a “hidden” stage to wait for some necessary conditions. Positive prospects According to the Vietnam M&A Market Report 2019 – 2020, in the period of 6/2019 – 10/2020,…
Speaking at the 12th Annual Vietnam Merger – Acquisition (M&A) Forum – 2020, Mr. Pham Duy Khuong – Director of ASL Law shared many issues related to post-M&A. The challenges At the first session, Mr. Pham Duy Khuong, Director of ASL Law, assessed that after M&A often some complicated disputes will happen, such as labor…
Mr. Masataka Sam Yoshida, Global Director of cross-border M&A transactions company, RECOF Corporation, said that in the M&A trend of Japanese investors in Southeast Asia, Vietnam achieved the highest number of deals with 33 deals in 2019. 1.5 times higher than the previous year. Vietnam M&A Forum 2020 with the theme Rising in a new…
Addressing at the 12th Annual Vietnam Merger – Acquisition (M&A) Forum – 2020, Mr. Tran Quoc Phuong, Deputy Minister of Planning and Investment commented that Vietnam’s M&A market over the past decade has reached 50 billion USD. In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic has seriously affected the value of the deals. Which has decreased by 3.5…
Regarding the investment deal, the most prominent deals in 2019 – 2020 are the deals between KEB Hana Bank and BIDV worth 878 million USD, Vinhomes and KKR & Temasek worth 652 million USD… Meanwhile, the most prominent mergers and acquisitions (M&A) deals involve private Vietnamese corporations such as Masan and Vinamilk. At the Vietnam…
Lawyer Pham Duy Khuong of ASL LAW joined the first session of the Vietnam M&A Forum 2020 with other lawyers and experts sharing their thoughts about the opportunities and challenges of Vietnam’s M&A market in the new normal. Phan Duc Hieu, deputy head, Central Institute for Economic Management (CIEM) One factor driving M&A activities is…
(Published on Vietnam Investment Review). The world has been heavily affected during the COVID-19 pandemic since the beginning of the year, which has caused a serious decline in economies globally. However, due to the pandemic being under good control in many ASEAN member states, these economies are on the way to recovery and is one…