Mr. Pham Nghiem Xuan Bac

 Mr. Pham Nghiem Xuan Bac
Vietnam Country Head

Areas of expertises
  • FDI
  • Corporate/ M&A
  • Banking & finance
  • Securities/ capital market
  • Private equity
  • Intellectual property
  • Insolvency & Restructuring
Capacity

Mr Bac together with other partners founded Vision & Associates, and now being managing partner of the Firm. Mr Bac has 25 years of legal advisory and business experience. His particular strengths are in the field of foreign direct investment, operational review, corporate governance and restructuring, business strategy and analysis, banking & finance , securities/ capital market , private equity , insurance , and intellectual property .

Mr Bac has directly and indirectly involved in dozens of foreign direct investment projects in Vietnam to which foreign investors include Motorola , Cargill , IBM, CitiBank , ANZ Bank , BHP, Sony Electronics, Fujita , Marubeni, etc., and participated in a number of projects and programmes funded by foreign governments and organizations including WB , ADB , DFID , DANIDA , GTZ , MPDF , etc.

In addition, his areas of expertise include IP advisory services, registrations and enforcement. Mr Bac is also a patent & trademark attorney, having the NOIP-granted IP representative license, and used to be a legal expert and patent examiner for the National Office of Intellectual Property (NOIP), a State agency solely in charge of industrial property issue in Vietnam.

Mr. Bac is always highly rated by international legal publications as one of the leading individuals in the IP domain in Vietnam. For example, more detailed information can be provided at: http://www.worldtrademarkreview.com/wtr1000/rankings/Detail.aspx?j=Vietnam

 

Education
  • 2001, MBA, Henley Management College, the UK
  • 1995, LLB, Hanoi National University, Vietnam
  • 1985, Postgraduate Diploma, Moscow Institute for Intellectual Property Laws, Russia
  • 1984, BSc, Moscow Auto-Mechanical Institute, Russia
Languages
  • Vietnamese
  • English
  • Russian
Memberships
  • Hanoi Lawyer Association (HLA)
  • Hanoi Bar Association (HBA)
  • Vietnam Industrial Property Association (VIPA)
  • The Law Association for Asia and the Pacific (LawAsia)
  • International Trademark Association (INTA)
  • Asia Patent Attorney Association (APAA)
  • ASEAN Industrial Property Association (ASEAN-IPA)
  • Australian Chamber of Commerce, Vietnam (AusCham)
  • American Chamber of Commerce, Vietnam (AmCham)