Le Huynh Nhat Minh

Minh is a senior associate at YKVN’s Ho Chi Minh City office, where he has practiced since 2015.

He specializes in debt and equity capital markets, M&A transactions, banking and finance, ADR and digital assets. Minh has advised on numerous debt capital market (DCM) offerings, including both private placements and public issuances, and has played a key role in several equity capital market (ECM) transactions in Vietnam.

Minh regularly counsels foreign investors on the acquisition and divestment of shares in both private and public companies, including regulated entities such as credit institutions. His banking and finance experience spans cross-border secured transactions, project finance, corporate finance, and bank M&A.

In addition to transactional work, Minh is actively involved in high-profile arbitration, mediation, and litigation matters, particularly those arising from M&A disputes.

Minh also maintains an active advisory practice in digital assets and cryptocurrency, where he advises clients on regulatory frameworks, tokenization structures, and investment strategies in Vietnam’s emerging digital finance landscape.

• Advised Masan Group Corporation (HOSE: MSN) –  one of the top three largest private sector companies in Vietnam in terms of market capitalization – as issuer on its numerous private placements and public offerings of VND bonds.
• Advised Hoan My Medical Corporation as bond issuer on its VND2,230 billion bonds, which are guaranteed by Credit Guarantee and Investment Facility, a trust fund of the Asian Development Bank (CGIF).
• Advised HDBank as issuer of a US$165 million international bond issuance to IFC and international financial institutions to increase its tier-2 equity.
• Advised Maybank Securities Limited (Vietnam), as arranger of Tecomen Holding JSC’s VND 200 billion debut bond issuance, guaranteed by CGIF.
• Advised Vietnam Prosperity Joint Stock Commercial Bank (VPBank) in securing a landmark US$ 1 billion international syndicated loan, marking the largest facility of its kind for a Vietnamese bank, and the country’s biggest foreign facility dedicated to sustainable projects.

• Banking
• Capital markets: Debt
• Capital markets: Equity
• Financial services regulatory
• M&A
• ADR

• Banking 
• Financial services
• Capital markets: Debt

• LL.B. University of Economics and Law, Vietnam National University HCMC, 2014
• Fundamentals of Financial Markets Course, Clifford Chance APAC, 2022

• Ho Chi Minh City Bar Association