Press Release: Duane Morris Partner Oliver Massmann Named Chairman of the Legal Sector Committee of the European Chamber of Commerce in Vietnam

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HANOI, September 29, 2015—Duane Morris LLP is pleased to announce that Oliver Massmann, a partner in the firm’s Hanoi office, has been elected as chairman of the Legal Sector Committee for the European Chamber of Commerce in Vietnam. Established in 1998, the Chamber is the principle voice of the European business community in Vietnam. It assists in developing the country into an attractive investment destination and trading partner for European companies.

For more than 20 years, Massmann has been practicing in the areas of corporate international taxation and on power/water projects, matters related to oil and gas companies and telecoms, privatization and equitization, mergers and acquisitions, and general commercial matters for multinational clients in relation to investment and doing business in Vietnam. He is the only foreign lawyer elected as a member of the supervisory board of PetroVietnam Insurance Corporation, Vietnam’s largest industrial insurer. Massmann is currently working on several investment projects as well as taxation matters and advising the Ministry of Electrical Power on building a power generation infrastructure in Myanmar. He is a registered arbitrator of the Vietnam International Arbitration Centre (The VIAC) and the only foreign lawyer in Vietnam presenting to the National Assembly of Vietnam in Vietnamese. For more than a decade, Massmann has been teaching International law in Vietnamese at the Ministry of Justice in Hanoi.

Massmann is a 1994 graduate of Bochum Law University in Germany. He holds an LL.M. degree in international taxation from St. Thomas University in Florida. Massmann is admitted to the Bar Association in Berlin and is a licensed foreign lawyer in Vietnam.

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