Bio

David Harrison is a partner of Mayer Brown’s Vietnam office. David has over 10 years of experience working in Vietnam, he worked at a Magic Circle law firm in New York and Vietnam. He focuses on cross-border mergers and acquisitions and on banking and finance in emerging Asian markets. He has advised foreign investors on numerous mergers and acquisitions, including Vietnamese commercial banks and corporate targets in Vietnam and other Asian jurisdictions, such as Sri Lanka, Uzbekistan and Bangladesh. David represented a global insurer on the first warranty and indemnity policy used in a Vietnamese corporate acquisition. He has advised multilateral and commercial lenders and agents on a broad range of secured and subordinated credit facilities extended to banks and corporations in Vietnam and other Asian jurisdictions such as Cambodia, Mongolia and Sri Lanka. David advised a leading international bank on its divestment of its minority stake in another commercial bank in Asia. David has also advised lenders and borrowers on out-of-court workouts and insolvency and restructuring matters in both Vietnam and the US.