Vietnam’s M&A market has seen significant growth over the past decade with a total of 4,353 deals valued at $48.8 billion done. Last year there was the biggest M&A deal ever when Thaibev Group bought 53.59 percent of the country’s largest brewery Sabeco through its subsidiary. This interest is expected to spread to other booming sectors like energy and infrastructure, education, pharmaceuticals, and telecoms in the near future aided by the constant efforts by the government to ease the restrictions on foreign investment in several sectors. In practice, M&A transactions involve guidance from consultants with various kinds of expertise until the deal is closed. The performance of legal due diligence (DD) in conjunction with financial and business DD is the first step in a deal as a pre-contractual investigation before proceeding with any further negotiations between the relevant parties. In M&A transactions, legal DD serves to collate information and identify … [Read more...] about Legal due diligence vital for business acquisitions in Vietnam
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Fintech primed to boost financial services sector in Vietnam
Adrian Chng, GoBear CEO: Fintech primed to boost financial services sector in Vietnam Vietnam is setting records. Notably, at the end of last year, it was named one of the world’s Top 20 internet users with 64 million connected people and in January this year, Vietnam claimed the title of the world’s fastest growing wealth hub, clocking in 210 per cent wealth growth between 2007 and 2017. This is the reason that Forbes declared the country ‘every keen investor’s must-watch’ for 2018. Besides, It means that Vietnam sits at the beautiful intersection where personal finance meets inevitable innovation. In the last five years alone, Vietnam has experienced the entry of over 40 new fintech players, such as online payment platforms Mobivi and Momo, as well as the country’s first fully digital bank Timo. One of these is financial products comparison platform GoBear, one of Asia’s fastest growing startups that has recently undergone leadership … [Read more...] about Fintech primed to boost financial services sector in Vietnam
BUSINESS IN BRIEF 18/7
Mobile World leader to sell VND41 billion worth of shares After five years of being a member of Mobile World’s Board of Management, this is the first time Robert Alan Willett registered to sell a large amount of MWG shares. According to the Ho Chi Minh City Stock Exchange (HSX), Willett has just registered to sell 415,000 MWG shares to reduce his ownership to two million shares. The transaction will take place between July 11 and August 9. On the stock exchange, the price of MWG has decreased by 20 per cent over the last month to around VND100,000 ($4.4) from VND130,000-140,000 ($5.7-6.1). At this price, Robert Alan Willett could gain VND41.5 billion ($1.83 million). Willett is former CEO of BestBuy International. He become a member of Mobile World’s board of management in April 2013 and has been a member of Phu Nhuan Jewelry JSC (PNJ)’s board of management since April 2018. At the end of May, the two sisters of Nguyen Duc Tai, chairman of MWG, surprised the market by … [Read more...] about BUSINESS IN BRIEF 18/7
BUSINESS IN BRIEF 26/4
TTC Sugar purchasing treasury shares The Thanh Thanh Cong - Bien Hoa JSC (TTC Sugar, stock code: SBT) began to purchase shares on April 18 to increase its treasury share (TS) holding and capital surplus, via order matching at market prices. It expects to continue to do so until May 17.Sao Do breaks through with brand powerVND20 trillion in credits for HCMC’s 2018 market stabilizationTaxi operators want ride-hailing cabs to change number plate colorHCMC taxman asks Grab to pay Uber transfer taxMinistry explains delay in announcing RON 95 petrol base price Da Lat flower growers need help: experts Around 300 million flowers from Da Lat are exported to markets such as Japan, South Korea and China every year, but experts say that more active networks among growers and buyers could help the industry reach its full potential. Da Lat has 9,000 hectares devoted to growing flowers, with many farmers using glasshouses which have increased output and profits, up to VND5 … [Read more...] about BUSINESS IN BRIEF 26/4
Social News 5/4 (Hourly Updated)
Twenty-seven more communes and wards this year join family medical practice A health staff member takes blood for testing at An Hòa ward health station in Cần Thơ City’s Ninh Kiều District. Source http://soytecantho.vn The Department of Health in the Mekong Delta city of Cần Thơ this year plans to expand a model of family medical practice clinics to 27 more communes and wards. Family medical practice clinics aim to provide comprehensive and continuous health care services to each local individual and family in order to reduce overcrowding of patients at city or central-level hospitals. These clinics are located at health stations in communes and wards. Each commune or ward has one health station. Cần Thơ aims to equip more than 80 per cent of its 85 health stations with these clinics by 2020. According to Dr Bùi Thị Lệ Phi, the department’s head, the city now has 18 commune-based health stations with family … [Read more...] about Social News 5/4 (Hourly Updated)