The move marks a significant milestone in Asia Counsel’s pursuit of excellence and growth and is part of its wider expansion plans in the emerging markets of Southeast Asia.

Jason Mogg, senior partner, Kinstellar, said that bringing Asia Counsel into the Kinstellar family marked a significant milestone for his group and for its development plans.

“We are excited to have a firm of the quality of Asia Counsel in our group and pursuing the next steps in Southeast Asia,” said Mogg.

Minh Duong, managing partner, Asia Counsel, added that as the company embarks on this new chapter, its commitment to delivering exceptional services and maintaining the highest standards remained unwavering.

“The shared values and goals of Asia Counsel and Kinstellar Southeast Asia undoubtedly will benefit both us and our existing and future clients. Together, we will be better positioned to innovate, serve our clients more effectively, and navigate the rapidly evolving legal landscape,” Duong said.

“Our strategy is to continue to develop a first-class family of connected law firms within developing jurisdictions in Southeast Asia where the major international law firms, which concentrate on the major Western financial centres, are not focused.”

Asia Counsel is a well-established and highly regarded law firm with more than 20 Vietnamese and foreign lawyers, including three partners, based in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam’s centre of enterprise.

It assists multinational corporations, UK, US, European, Japanese, Chinese and other Asia-Pacific law firms, as well as global, regional and local investment funds, venture capital funds, private equity investors and financial institutions.

It also serves an array of high-profile Vietnamese corporations with their full business lifecycle in Vietnam – from market entry and M&A to daily operations and regional expansion.

Kinstellar is a fast-growing top quality full-service law firm in Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia.

It has offices in 11 jurisdictions: Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Ukraine, Turkey and Uzbekistan.

Today it is recognized as one of the very top firms in the jurisdictions where it operates with approximately 300 lawyers and professionals.