Mergers & Acquisitions

In Vietnam and across our ASEAN offices, we provide on-the-ground local law advice and apply our cross border transaction management expertise to help you see your deal through to completion. You can expect the same level of dedication and commitment to quality that we have nurtured across Southeast Asia.

Our Team

Our Mergers & Acquisitions (“M&A”) Practice Group has a diverse array of clients, ranging from small-to-medium enterprises (“SMEs”) to listed multi-national corporations, and an equally diverse range of lawyers with all the necessary in-depth knowledge and transaction management skills to handle the multi-faceted challenges of this area of practice. Our M&A Practice Group fields a highly rated team of lawyers with enormous experience in many significant M&A transactions, including high-profile, complex and challenging deals. Our M&A partners are valued by clients for their wealth of industry insights and their ability to present sound and commercial solutions in challenging M&A transactions. A number of our M&A partners are recognised as leading practitioners in this field by various publications and they have garnered many accolades in the public and private M&A space.

Our Capability

Our team is heavily involved in transactions in Vietnam as well as the wider ASEAN region. As one of the leading firms for M&A work in Vietnam, we have strong capability in a wide range of transactions in this field, including:

Acquisitions and divestments of companies (both public and private), businesses and assets
Takeovers (hostile, contested and uncontested) of Vietnamese listed companies
Reverse takeovers (RTOs)
Mergers
Delistings, privatisations, de-mergers and corporate restructurings
Private equity investments

Our Cross-border Strength

A key pillar to our strength in cross-border transactions is our Rajah & Tann Asia network with offices in Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore and Thailand, as well as dedicated desks focusing on Japan and South Asia. With vast experience and boots-on-the-ground exposure across our regional practices, our lawyers have a tight grasp of the local culture, business practices and language in these markets. This gives us an unparalleled edge over our competitors in presenting and pursuing solutions that are both practical and cost-effective. It provides our clients with the “home advantage” in any competitive M&A bids or tenders.

We are able to tap on the expertise of our regional teams to assist clients in undertaking cross-border transactions. Keeping these skill sets ‘in-house’ means that we always have the resources to put together the right legal team for any project, in any Asian city.

Our regional network enables our various offices to work together closely to provide seamless “one-stop shop” service to our clients to meet their needs in cross-border M&A transactions, from advising on anti-trust and other market access restrictions, obtaining local regulatory approvals to conducting legal due diligence across the region and providing a seamless legal due diligence report.

Our Clients

No client is too big or too small. We act for multinationals, financial institutions, accounting firms, investment banks, listed and unlisted groups including government-linked groups, funds, private equity investors, high net-worth individuals, SMEs, principals and their advisers.

Our Advice and Support

Our depth of transactional and regulatory experience allows us to advise clients strategically and creatively, from structuring to eventual execution and implementation of the transaction. We are committed to working closely with clients in pursuing their commercial objectives, and to provide them with legally and commercially sound and practical advice in a timely manner.

Our team draws freely on the expertise of our other practice groups to provide specialist advice on the different facets of the transaction, such as cross-border issues, regulatory compliance, competition and antitrust issues, tax structuring as well as industry-specific issues.

In addition, we provide valuable ‘after sales’ support to our clients post-transaction if the need arises, for warranty claims and other dispute resolution.

Recognition

Tier 2 - Corporate / M&A

The Legal 500 Asia Pacific (2024)
Tier 2 - Mergers & Acquisitions

IFLR1000 (2024-2025)
Tier 2 - M&A

ALB M&A Rankings (2023)
Highly Recommended - Corporate and M&A

Asialaw (2024-25)
Ranked - Corporate/ M&A

Chambers Asia-Pacific (2024)
Ranked - Corporate/ M&A

Chambers Global (2024)
"...Provide comprehensive advice."

The Legal 500 Asia Pacific (2024)
"The corporate team acts on M&A matters and is also experienced advising venture capital funds and seed companies."

IFLR1000 (2024)
"Rajah & Tann has a knowledgeable team with practical experience."

Chambers Asia-Pacific (2022)
"They provide professional and usable advice. Also speak good English. They understand what an international client is looking for. "

IFLR1000 (2022)
"Expertise from the industry. Fast response to questions. Good counsel in areas of conflict. Solution-focused."

IFLR1000 (2022)

They have a strong local knowledge and network, and a good balance of business and legal savviness."

Chambers Asia-Pacific (2024)