Duane Morris has hired Nguyen Thi Lang as a corporate partner in Vietnam from local firm Frasers Law Co.

Nguyen, who will be based in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam's largest metropolis, focuses on corporate and commercial matters, including mergers and acquisitions, cross-border investment, real estate, pharmaceutical, commercial and infrastructure projects. She is qualified to practise in Vietnam.

Nguyen worked at Frasers Law Co. for more than six years. Previously, she practised at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer for more than eight years, most recently as international counsel. Before that, she was a lawyer at Big Four accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers' Vietnamese legal arm.