| HOSTS |
 Diep Hoang
Partner, Dilinh Legal (Ho Chi Minh City)
Diep Hoang is a founding partner at Dilinh Legal with her expertise extending to areas such as inbound investment, mergers and acquisitions, international trade and antitrust. Her client includes foreign investors, local conglomerates, financial entities, and venture funds, whom she has counseled regarding their investments and operations in Vietnam. Acknowledged as a Leading Individual in Corporate and M&A by Chambers and Partners since 2021, she is also on the A-List of Top 100 Vietnam Lawyers by Asia Law Business Law Journal from the same year. She serves as a Jurisdictional Council Member (JCM) of the Inter Pacific Bar Association (IPBA) for Vietnam. |
 Michael Chu
President-Elect, IPBA
Partner, McDermott Will & Emery (Chicago)
Michael Chu is a partner at McDermott. He focuses his practice on all aspects of patent law, including complex litigation, opinions and prosecution. He serves as the Local IP Litigation Practice Group Leader in McDermott’s Chicago office. Mike is also the head of the Firm’s Racial & Ethnic Diversity Committee. In his litigation practice, Michael handles patent, trademark, trade secret and copyright matters, including trials, hearings, post-grant proceedings (including IPRs and PGRs) and mediation. Michael is President Elect of Inter Pacific Bar Association. |
| MODERATOR |
 Raphael Tay
Partner, LAW Partnership (Kuala Lumpur)
Raphael Tay is a partner at LAW Partnership. He advises on various international projects, including mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, corporate restructuring, divestments and general corporate and commercial work. With three decades of experience encompassing both local and international work, he is well-versed in various areas notably Corporate and Commercial, Mergers and Acquisitions, and Information and Technology Law. Raphael has been the Chairman of the LAWASIA Moot Standing Committee since 2008 and is the current Chair of the Legal Development and Training Committee, and the Council Member of the Inter-Pacific Bar Association (IPBA). |
| PANELISTS |
 Jay H. Reiziss
Partner, McDermott Will & Emery (Washington, DC)
Jay Reiziss is a partner at McDermott. He has an active practice in Section 337 intellectual property investigations before the US International Trade Commission (ITC), US Trade Representative and Customs, as well as in US federal courts. From 1995-2007, Jay worked at the ITC, serving in the Office of General Counsel, the Office of Chairman Stephen Koplan and the Office of Unfair Import Investigations. His experience includes all aspects of litigation before the ITC and briefing and arguing matters before the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Jay has drafted and negotiated patent license and settlement agreements valued at more than 100 million dollars on behalf of Fortune 500 companies, as well as for small and medium-sized companies. |
 Zunu Lee
Partner, Yoon & Yang (Seoul)
Zunu Lee is a partner at Yoon & Yang LLC. His main practice areas include international trade (inbound & outbound investments), international JV, M&A, collective investment, securities & financial transaction/regulation, and international arbitration & mediation. Zunu Lee has handled corporate cross-border transactions, such as cross-border M&A, corporate restructuring, and JV. He has also expanded his practice to acquisition financing, collective investment, securities & financial regulations, and international arbitrations & mediations arising out of various corporate cross-border transactions. |
 Hai Nguyen
Partner, YKVN (Ho Chi Minh City)
Hai Nguyen is a partner at YKVN. Hai has over 15 years of experience providing legal advice in the areas of corporate, energy and capital markets. He has in-depth knowledge of the Vietnamese capital markets and the energy sector as well as the legal environment in Vietnam in general. At YKVN, Hai specializes in advising on capital markets transactions, financings and other corporate and transactional advisory matters. Hai is recognized by the International Financial Law Journal, Chambers and Partners and the Asia Pacific Legal 500. Hai is also the author of numerous publications on a variety of topics, including global trade, jurisdiction and the Vietnamese legal framework in general published in in prestigious journals such as Infra Asia, Asian Power and Asian-mena Counsel Magazine. |
 Tran Ngoc Linh
Partner, Dentons LuatViet (Hanoi City)
Linh Tran is a senior partner leading the Hanoi Office of Dentons LuatViet. She is an accomplished lawyer with rich hands-on experience in practice focusing on foreign investment, corporate, merger and acquisition, banking and finance, and real estate. Linh Tran regularly advises FDI clients on merger and acquisition transactions and has achieved some resounding successes. Among her accolades, she was named “UN Women Gender Responsive Procurement Project (Pro Bono) – Vietnam” for her selfless dedication to gender equality and women’s empowerment by UN Women. The World Bank Group also recognized Linh for contributing to the “Doing Business” report for four consecutive years (2019 – 2022). |
