Tuanh Nguyen

Partner
Norton Rose Fulbright Australia

Melbourne
T:+61 3 8686 6510
Melbourne
T:+61 3 8686 6510
Tuanh Nguyen

Tuanh Nguyen

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Biography

Tuanh is a corporate M&A partner based in Melbourne.

Tuanh has nearly 20 years' experience advising and assisting Australian and off-shore clients on corporate transactions. She specialises in assisting clients with their fundraising transactions (including IPOs, secondary capital raising processes and start-up fundraisings) and private and public M&A (including public company takeovers, schemes and defences, private equity transactions, joint ventures and corporate restructuring). She also has extensive experience advising on cross-border corporate transactions in a wide range of industries, including financial services, agriculture, mining and construction services, manufacturing and retail as a well as a broad range of countries, including across Asia, Europe and the United States.

In addition to her work as a transactional lawyer, Tuanh has extensive experience advising Australian companies and not-for-profit organisations, and their boards on corporate governance and risk management issues. With this experience, Tuanh also sits on a number of Australian not-for-profit boards.

She also provides advisory services on a broad range of general commercial and corporate law matters, including bribery and corruption, commercial contracting arrangements, risk allocation and mitigation issues.

She has received several legal industry awards for her work as a corporate lawyer, including the winner of the 2019 Women in Law Awards (Special Counsel of the Year) and a three times finalist in the Australian Law Awards (Dealmaker of the Year and Special Counsel of the Year) (2019, 2021 and 2022).

Tuanh is also a diversity, equity & inclusion consultant and using her expertise in cultural diversity & inclusion, corporate governance and risk management, Tuanh works to support organisations enhance their diversity, equity & inclusion outcomes by driving change through leadership and organisational capability upskilling, workplace culture reviews, D&I strategy development and governance and policy reviews.

Tuanh's work as a diversity, equity & inclusion consultant stems from Tuanh's long-standing work as an advocate for cultural diversity & inclusion in the professional services (particularly law) and more broadly. She has a particular interest in promoting greater representation of culturally diverse women in the senior ranks of the Australian professional services and the Australian corporate sector. She has spoken extensively and published articles on the issue of Asian-Australian representation in senior leadership of the legal sector, professional services and the Australian corporate sector.

In 2020, she was recognised for her work as a cultural diversity advocate as a recipient of the 40 Under 40 Most Influential Asian Australians as part of the Asian Australian Leadership Summit.

Professional experience

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  • Master of Laws (LLM), University of Melbourne (2012)
  • Bachelor of Law (LLB), Monash University (2006)
  • Bachelor of Commerce (Accounting & Finance) (BCom), Monash University (2006)
  • Supreme Court of Victoria 2007
  • High Court of Australia 2009
  • Liberty Financial Group - on its initial public offering and listing on the ASX (market capitalisation of $1.8 billion).*
  • JB Hi-Fi Limited - on its $870 million acquisition of The Good Guys and $394 million secondary capital raising.*
  • Next Capital - on various acquisitions, including Lynch Group (Australia's largest flower importer and wholesale distributor), Scottish Pacific (financial services), Onsite Rental Group (mining services), TOPSHOP and Glue Stores (retail).*
  • Lynch Group - on its initial public offering and listing on the ASX (market capitalisation of $450 million).*
  • Scottish Pacific - on its ASX Listing and subsequent takeover defence by way of a scheme of arrangement with Affinity Equity Partners.​*
  • CITIC Group - on numerous corporate transactions, including its $452 million placement of shares in ASX-listed Alumina Limited, its HK$2.5 billion rights issue on the HK Stock Exchange and its takeover defence in respect of Macarthur Coal.*
  • Air Liquide / Schulke Mayer (Germany) - on its global acquisition of antisepsis hand cleanser business from Johnson & Johnson Medical.*

 

*Experience gained prior to joining Norton Rose Fulbright

  • Winner, Special Counsel of the Year, Women in Law Awards (2019)
  • Finalist, Special Counsel of the Year, Australian Law Awards (2020, 2021 & 2022)
  • Finalist, Dealmaker of the Year, Australian Law Awards (2021)
  • Recipient of the 40 Under 40 Most Influential Asian Australians Award (2020)
  • Finalist, Rising Star (Corporate Law), Euromoney LMG Asia Women in Business Law Awards (2019)
  • "Advancing Ethnically and Culturally Diverse Representation and Inclusive Leadership in Australia" (2021) 15 UNSW Law Society Court of Conscience 79)
  • "2020: A Year Like No Other for Australia's Equity Capital Markets" International Capital Markets Review 2021/2022 – Australian Chapter, Beaumont Capital Markets
  • Asia Society and Business Council of Australia, "Managing Bribery and Corruption' Asia Taskforce Discussion Paper", October 2020 (https://asiasociety.org/australia/managing-bribery-andcorruption- asia-taskforce-discussion-paper)
  • Lawyers Weekly, "Celebrating Women in the Law" (https://www.lawyersweekly.com.au/biglaw/27477-celebrating-women-in-law)
  • Tuanh Nguyen and Reynah Tang, 'Gender, Culture, And The Legal Profession: A Traffic Jam At The Intersection' (2017), Griffith Journal of Law & Human Dignity, Gender, Culture, and Narrative Special Issue 2017 (https://griffithlawjournal.org/index.php/gjlhd/article/view/893)
  • ABC News, "How Asian-Australians are struggling to break through the 'bamboo ceiling'" (https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-11-02/asian-australians-struggling-to-break-bambooceiling/ 11665288)
  • Sydney Morning Herald, "Eight out of 10 Asian-Australians experience discrimination: survey" (https://www.smh.com.au/business/workplace/eight-out-of-10-asian-australians-experiencediscrimination-survey-20190920-p52tfp.html)
  • SBS, "Battle of the bamboo ceiling", www.sbs.com.au/topics/life/feature/battle-bamboo-ceiling
  • Asian Australia Lawyers Association
  • Law Institute of Victoria
  • English
  • Vietnamese

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