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Mizuho Corporate Bank-Vietcombank stake purchase

- $567.00 m
  • Entry date - Wednesday, 23 November 2011
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  • Mizuho Corporate Bank-Vietcombank stake purchase

  • Firm - Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
  • Client - Mizuho
  • Lead Lawyers - Anthony Foster
  • Role - International counsel to acquirer
  • Firm - Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu
  • Client - Mizuho
  • Lead Lawyers - Masaki Konishi, Shintaro Takai
  • Role - Japanese counsel to acquirer
  • Firm - Shearman & Sterling
  • Client - Vietcombank
  • Lead Lawyers - Gregory Puff
  • Role - International counsel to target
  • Firm - YKVN Lawyers
  • Client - Vietcombank
  • Lead Lawyers - Truong Nhat Quang
  • Role - Vietnamese counsel to target


Deal summary
·         Mizuho Financial’s 15 percent stake purchase in Vietcombank for $567 million

·         Deal is marks a step forward by Mizuho in its overseas expansion and gives it a foot-hold in Vietnam’s banking sector

·         Vietnamese firm, YKVN Lawyers advised Vietcombank in 2008 on its $600 million IPO in Ho Chi Minh City


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