The latest issue of Asian Legal Business, an Asian based professional magazine, released their 2020 intellectual property rankings by country. Indochine Counsel is pleased to be ranked as tier 2 in both Patents and Copyright/Trademarks for the Vietnam jurisdiction. This continuing recognition of Indochine Counsel's abilities and expertise in the IP law space is gratifying [...]
OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT FROM THE FIRM At Indochine Counsel, we have been closely following the developments of the Covid-19 virus as it rampages around the globe. While earlier we had hoped that Vietnam would be spared much of the trouble, we have discovered more than 200 confirmed cases and Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has called [...]
About a month ago I shared the In-House Community (Asia-Mena Counsel) award results in which, among other things, Indochine Counsel was awarded the Most Responsive Domestic Firm of the Year. You can see the link to that story below. Indochine Counsel shared that award with two other firms, LNT & Partners and YKVN, both considered [...]
In Vietnam, the women rule, at least as far as demographics are concerned. According to the last census, there are 48,327,923 women, enough to comprise 50.2% of the population. Nearly 88% of the population aged between 25-59 participated in the labor force. A slightly different statistic from The Economist states that “some 79% of women [...]
"Indochine Counsel are experts in their areas, understanding and reasonable." Every year international legal rankings publish their results by jurisdiction of the best law firms in each practice area. Sometimes Indochine Counsel ranks and wins, sometimes it doesn't. While the rankings companies say they are impartial and aren't influenced by law firm advertising budgets, they [...]
Hello all. I hope your holidays are shaping up and, for those in the West, celebrating religious holidays and preparations for New Years Eve find you full of joy and excitement. For those in Vietnam there's a brief display tomorrow night, but for the most part we save our celebration for later in the month [...]
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from Indochine Counsel. To put you in the mood, here are a few images from around the city of Christmas cheer.
Ten years ago tomorrow I started my first day working for Indochine Counsel. I was a year out of law school, having spent six months finishing the qualifying requirements for the California Bar Association and then six months trying to find work in the middle of the Great Recession. The future seemed bleak but then [...]
Indochine Counsel is very happy to announce that our Managing Partner, Dang The Duc, has received the “Commended External Counsels of the Year for Vietnam 2019”. He received the award in Hong Kong on Thursday, May 30, 2019 and was part of the In-House Community celebration that followed. Dang The Duc (you can see his [...]
I spent last week in Boston where I attended, with our managing partner Dang The Duc, the International Trademark Association's (INTA) annual meeting. It was a fast paced round of networking and meeting, with over 11,000 attendees. A very large conference. Crazy, really. It started with a long flight from Vietnam to Japan, where a [...]