In commercial agreements, if the parties have agreed to a certain form of dispute resolution (e.g., litigation or arbitration), they are bound by it and must resolve the dispute at the forum so agreed upon. However, in a standard form contract for the provision of goods or services (or contracts referencing general trading conditions) where one or more parties is a consumer, things are different. The terms surrounding standard form contracts and general trading conditions can apply to all kinds of contracts between a services/goods provider and a consumer. For such disputes, if the provider has included an arbitration clause in its standard form contract or general trading conditions on the supply of such goods and services, and the...To read the full article, please see the PDF file
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Mr. Bang is a partner of our firm, with more than 15 years of experience as a lawyer. He joined the Ho Chi Minh City Office in 2010, as the first Vietnamese lawyer in the Ho Chi Minh City Office, and gained experience in a variety of diverse cases, including huge, complex projects. Mr. Bang specializes in dispute resolution, inbound investments, corporate & commercial matters, M&A, banking, real estate property & construction, and labour. He also has significant experience in providing advice regarding unfair competition, securities, capital market transactions, project financing transactions, infrastructure projects, and energy projects. Before joining the firm, Mr. Bang gained professional experience in both a law firm and working with multinational corporations. He has been a regular contributor to a number of law-related magazines, and has actively participated in the legal training of law students, having been a law lecturer in Vietnam since 2009. Mr. Bang is a 2001 graduate of Hanoi University of Law (LL.B.), and received an LL.M. from the Transnational Law & Business University in Seoul, Korea in 2006. He is a member of the Ho Chi Minh Bar and the Vietnam Bar Federation, and is fluent in both English and Vietnamese.
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