Pham Minh Thang is a YKVN counsel based in Singapore and Hanoi. He has more than twelve years of experience in corporate and M&A, capital markets, banking and finance and international arbitration.

Thang has advised on a wide variety of M&A transactions ranging from acquisitions of companies or assets in highly regulated sectors such as banking, securities or oil & gas, to billion-dollar real estate joint ventures. Thang is also an experienced capital markets lawyer, having advised institutional investors and Vietnamese issuers in some of the most significant Vietnamese equity offerings, including Novaland, Vietjet, VP Bank, Vincom Retails, Vinhomes and Techcombank. Thang has also been active in international arbitration, representing Vietnam and Petrovietnam in complex arbitrations, working alongside WilmerHale (London, D.C. and New York) and Shearman & Sterling (Paris).
Thang is qualified in Vietnam and California. Following completion of his LLM degree at UC Berkeley, Thang spent a year at Sidley Austin in its Chicago headquarters (M&A practice) and Houston office (Oil & Gas practice). He is recognized by asialaw as a “Rising Star” in Corporate and M&A.

Thang also advised BIDV, Vietcombank, Vietinbank, Maritime Bank, Military Bank and other banks and corporations on numeral derivatives transactions using ISDA Master Agreement form.

Bar Admissions
Hanoi Bar Association
Vietnam Bar Federation
California Bar Association
Registered Foreign Lawyer in Singapore

Education
University of California, Berkeley School of Law, Master in Law (candidate) (2014)
University of California, Berkeley School of Law, International Executive Certificate in American Law (2012)
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade of the Republic of Korea, International Energy Cooperation Promotion (2009)
Hanoi University of Law, LLB (2007)