LLM (hon.), MBA, FCIArb, SIAM, ADIDRRMI, CIArb acred. Mediator

EPLegal | Founder, Sr. Partner

VIAC | Arbitrator, Member of Expert Advisory Board

VMC | Deputy Director

VIArb| Managing Director

Email: tonynguyen@eplegal.com

Phone: (84) 28 3823 2648

Fax: (84) 28 3823 2657

Languages: Vietnamese, English, (basic) Chinese

Tony is among a few top-tiered project & energy lawyers in Vietnam who are highly rated by Chambers, Legal500, Asialaw Profiles and other international publications.

Tony has spent nineteen years practicing in the projects and energy industry. Prior to co-founding EPLegal in 2010, Tony worked in managerial and legal positions in leading oil & gas operators and contractors in Vietnam such as PTSC, Cuu Long JOC, and PVTrans. He has legal and contracting experience through various projects related to drilling campaigns; oil and gas production operations; sales and purchasing and technical services contracts; chartering of vessels/FPSO/FSO; production services; and EPC/EPIC contracts, offtake agreements and lifting contracts. He acts as leading counsel and works on both contentious and non-contentious matters in onshore energy and infrastructure construction contracts and related disputes settlement, including hydropower plants, thermal power plants, refineries and solar energy installation projects, etc.

Tony is also a Benchmark-Litigation’s dispute resolution star and a to-go-counsel for international arbitration involving Vietnamese parties. He frequently represents large corporate clients for disputes settled under the rules of Vietnam International Arbitration Center (VIAC), SIAC and ICC, etc. He is the first Vietnamese fellow member of CIArb (FCIArb), past chairman of CIArb Vietnam steering committee, a member of the VIAC’s Expert Advisory Council. Tony actively participates in training, research and drafting activities of VIAC rules, VMC rules and the code of ethics of VMC mediators. In January 2020, he was appointed as Deputy Director of Vietnam Mediation Center (VMC) and in the same year he co-founded Vietnam Institute for International Arbitration (VIArb), the first independent ADR training institute in Vietnam, and holds the position of Managing Director until now.

Tony also actively practices as an arbitrator of VIAC, THAC, IDRRMI, BIAIC and other reputable regional and international arbitration centers.

nguyen trung nam (tony)

BSc Hons LLM FCIArb MCInstCES FCIOB FRICS MAE MEWI
Ankura Consulting |Director

Matthew is a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, Chartered Institute of Building and a Member of Chartered Institution of Civil Engineering. He is regularly appointed as an expert witness in the field of quantum (damages) in construction matters. Matthew is a certified civil and commercial mediator, construction adjudicator, dispute board practitioner and a domestic and international arbitrator and sits on over 30 worldwide arbitration panels. He has also been recognised in Who’s Who Legal in Arbitration, Quantum and Delay, and Construction chapters in publications in 2018-2021.

Matthew Finn