LE TAN SINH

INFORMATION OF THE ARBITRATOR/MEDIATOR

Full name: LE TAN SINH (Simon Le) Year of birth: 1987 Occupation: Lawyer, Managing Director at LTS LAW FIRM Scope of Activities and Experiences: Enterprise and Commercial business, Foreign investment, Securities and Capital transactions, etc. Language: Vietnamese, English Residence: Ho Chi Minh City

Education

Simon graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Commercial Law from Ho Chi Minh City Law University in 2009.

He graduated from the Judicial Academy's lawyer training course in 2011. In addition, he also graduated from the PACE Program, organized by the International Center for Professional Debt Collection (ICPC) - based in Toronto, Canada.

Currently, Simon is a member of the Ho Chi Minh City Bar Association and he also is the Managing Director at LTS LAW FIRM.

Professional activities

Simon has over 11 years of legal practice and his areas of expertise include all aspects of corporate and commercial advisory practice, focusing primarily on foreign direct investment, securities and capital transactions, private equity, real estate, legal training, commercial - corporate matters, and dispute resolution.

During his legal practice, Simon has gained highly-regarded and significant experience and strong expertise in advising leading international and Vietnamese corporations across a wide range of industry sectors (including manufacturing, banking and finance, insurance, property development and services sectors) in structuring their business and investments as well as managing their corporate governance and daily operation in Vietnam.

Simon has developed technical excellence from being involved in a large number of major and complex M&A, banking - finance transactions, corporate restructuring, and dispute resolution.

Experiences in legal consultancy and litigation

Advising a Vietnamese investor in relation to its proposed project of setting up a kindergarten school.

Advising and representing a vocational training school in Ho Chi Minh City in a dispute of the ownership/use right to a land area and facilities attached thereto located in Thu Duc District with the total area of up to 4,689 m².

Participating in advising VCHG, an investment fund in Luxembourg, in relation to its successful acquisition of 30% equity under private placement in a leading local movie producer with the total investment of US$1.5 million.

Participating in advising a Swiss investor on setting up a trading joint venture company in Ho Chi Minh City for distribution of watches, pens and other lifestyle products.

Advising LienVietPostBank and VPBank Finance Company Limited on the satisfaction of legal requirements to be admitted being a member of MasterCard.

Participating in advising Samsung about technology transfer and registration of new business activities related to export, medical devices distribution.

Advising BIBICA, a leading snack and confectionary producer in Vietnam, in relation to a lawsuit in which BIBICA claimed fire insurance compensation.

Advising and representing PEPSICO in several legal actions in which PEPSICO claimed overdue debts from its distribution agencies.

And many other cases.