M&A Associate
Le Hai Dang is an Associate specializing in mergers and acquisitions advisory, with experience supporting domestic and cross-border transactions across a broad range of industries, including healthcare, pharmaceuticals, food and beverage, industrial manufacturing, logistics, commercial real estate, and consumer sectors.
Dang has been actively involved throughout the transaction lifecycle, from deal origination and investor screening to preparation of marketing materials, transaction execution, due diligence coordination, and negotiation support. His practice focuses particularly on sell-side advisory mandates, where he works closely with business owners to position investment opportunities and engage strategic and financial investors across Asia.
Dang is recognized for his commercial mindset, responsiveness, and ability to bridge expectations between entrepreneurs and institutional investors. He has extensive experience working with Japanese strategic investors and advisors, facilitating communication between parties with differing commercial objectives and transaction cultures to advance deals toward execution.
His experience spans mergers and acquisitions, strategic fundraising, shareholder exits, and cross-border investment transactions. Through involvement in multiple middle-market transactions in Vietnam, Dang has developed expertise in transaction structuring, valuation analysis, investment storytelling, and management of competitive sale processes for founder-led businesses.
Educational background
Master of Business Administration (MBA), James Cook University Singapore, Singapore.
Languages
English and Vietnamese.
Representative matters
• Advised shareholders of Project AQUA, a leading export-oriented seafood processor in Vietnam, on strategic investment and divestment discussions with international strategic investors.
• Advised shareholders of Project GREEN, a cold-chain logistics and warehousing operator, on valuation positioning, equity story development, and engagement with strategic investors in the logistics sector.
• Advised shareholders of Project HAVANA, a dairy and consumer products company, in discussions with Japanese strategic investors regarding a potential majority investment transaction.
• Advised shareholders of Project NATURE PHARMA on strategic partnership opportunities with foreign pharmaceutical ingredient and flavoring companies.
• Advised shareholders of Project IMT on investor screening and assessment of strategic fit with overseas investors in relation to a potential cross-border transaction.
• Advised shareholders of Project VANESSA on a potential majority secondary sale process involving foreign strategic investors.
• Supported the marketing and investor outreach process for commercial real estate transactions including Project Lim Tower 3 and other office assets in Vietnam.
