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Mark has been advising clients on transactions in Vietnam since 1994. In 2004, he founded Frasers Law Company, the first law firm to obtain a foreign law company license in Vietnam.
In the 20+ years that Mark has been based in Vietnam, Mark’s practice has focused on corporate matters, especially mergers and acquisitions, banking and finance, restructuring and insolvency, commercial real estate transactions, and infrastructure projects. This involves debt and equity structuring of investment projects and the preparation and negotiation of documents. Mark has been involved in numerous power generation, water treatment, road tollway, telecommunications, and oil and gas projects in various jurisdictions within Asia and has advised on a plethora of Vietnamese matters in the banking and finance, corporate and commercial, infrastructure, capital markets , property development and dispute resolution areas.
Mark’s international legal expertise and in-depth knowledge of Vietnam, as much from a legal perspective as commercially, are well renowned, and he is ranked as a top tier lawyer practicing in Vietnam by publications such as The Legal 500 Asia Pacific, Asialaw Profile, Chambers Asia Pacific, Chambers Global and IFLR 1000.
Mark has more than 25 years’ experience on advising clients from all over the globe, and was previously based in London, Singapore, Hong Kong, Bangkok and Brunei (as well as Ho Chi Minh City) with the same Magic Circle law firm for more than ten years.
Gwendoline (Gwen) Brooker is a Partner based in Frasers Law Company’s Hanoi office. She has more than 35 years of experience in transactional and disputes work in the energy industry across the board from upstream oil and gas to refining and chemical, marketing; and latterly, renewables in wind, solar, and batteries. A qualified English barrister from Lincoln’s Inn, she has an LL.B (Hons) from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Gwen joined Frasers Law Company after more than three decades at TotalEnergies SE where her expertise includes a unique portfolio of commercial and transactional work juxtaposed with disputes. In the past decade, Gwen worked on managing and settling multi-billion dollar disputes in Australia, Italy, Libya, Mozambique, and the US which involved complex arbitrations.
