Duong Thi Thu Ha, Counsel
M: +84 9 12 666 369
Summary
Ha Duong has 20 years of experience in the legal practice. She focuses on areas of dispute resolution. She specializes on commercial, employment, investment, corporate and construction laws. She has advised and represented clients in courts or arbitration in a number of remarkable cases in the fields of investment, commerce, infrastructure and construction. She also advises corporate clients on day-by-day investment, corporate, commercial and labor matters.
Apart from acting as counsel for disputing parties, in 2023, Ha also participated in the arbitration proceedings as party-appointed expert or co-arbitrator in several VIAC arbitrations.
Ha runs her own litigation practice and cooperate with VNLaw on dispute or contentious matters.
Key areas of expertise
Corporate Management and Operation
Commercial and Business Issues
Contract Drafting and Negotiation
Foreign Investment
M&A and Restructuring
Bidding and Construction
Insurance
Employment
Commercial Arbitration
Court Litigation and Dispute Resolution
Working experience
Mar 2024 – Present
Counsel / VNLaw
Oct 2019 – Mar 2024
Partner / A-PAC International
Jan 2019 – Sep 2019
Of-Counsel / A-PAC International | VNLaw
Jan 2015 – Dec 2018
Senior Associate / VILAF
Working in the Litigation Team of the Firm, supporting Partners in providing legal advice and services to clients.
Awards: Senior Associate of the Year for 2015, 2016 and 2017.
Feb 2011 – Dec 2014
Associate / VILAF
Working in the Litigation Team of the Firm, supporting Partners in providing legal advice and services to clients.
Feb 2004 – Jan 2011
Legal Expert / Supreme People’s Court of Vietnam
Assisting and making recommendation to the Chief Justice of the Supreme People’s Court in deciding to protest (or do not) against the effectively enforceable decisions and/or judgments of Vietnamese Courts with respect to commercial, laboring, and civil matters to review such decisions and/or judgments according to reopening or cassation procedures.
To clerk for the regular meetings of the Judges’ Council of the Supreme People’s Court.
Association
Member of Hanoi City Bar Association
MCIArb – Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
SCLVN – Society of Construction Law – Vietnam
AusAID Alumni
Education
2009 - 2010
LLM / Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne, Australia
Major: Commercial Law
Being granted an AusAID scholarship for study this course in 2008
1999 - 2003
LLB / Hanoi Law University, Vietnam
Major: Economic Law and International Law
Award: Second prize of the “Students Research Science” Competition held by Ministry of Education and Training of Vietnam in 2002
1999 - 2003
Bachelor of English / Hanoi Foreign Language University, Vietnam