Dzung LUU

Dr. Luu Tien Dzung, formerly a Law Clerk for the Chief Justice of the Supreme People’s Court of Vietnam, is a co-chair of YKVN’s litigation practice. Dzung has 30 years’ experience in handling complex commercial and construction disputes. During his tenure at the Supreme People’s Court, Dzung assisted the Chief Justice with the screening of many such disputes to determine whether full review by the Judicial Council of the Supreme People’s Court was appropriate and participated in a group supporting the drafting committee of the 1992 Constitution and in drafting the first Civil Code and Civil Procedure Code of Vietnam.

Dzung currently serves as a Vice President of the Vietnam Bar Federation and a member of Panel of Arbitrators of Singapore International Arbitration Center (SIAC).

In 2023, Dr. Dzung is the first ever non-civil servant nominated by the National Judicial Council to the Supreme Court of Vietnam.

From 2002 to 2007, Dzung was appointed by UN Secretary General as an UNDP program officer in charge of UN development programs for Vietnam on legal and judicial reforms.

At YKVN, Dzung has represented state-owned, local and foreign corporations in multi-million-dollar foreign trade and contractual disputes before the Vietnamese courts, as well as under VIAC, SIAC, LCIA, ICC and US GAFTA arbitration procedures. Dzung is also well-recognized for his defense of a former minister in a complex white-collar banking case.

Due to his wealth of experiences in litigation and arbitration, Dzung is a much sought-after VIAC arbitrator. He was also recently appointed by the ICC International Court of Arbitration as an arbitrator for adjudication of a dispute between a foreign contractor and a government authority of Vietnam.

Dzung is also among the very first Vietnamese mediators recently accredited by the Center for Effective Dispute Resolution. Dzung is also teaching law at Van Lang Law School University.

Dzung has been recognized by Chambers Asia as a first-tier lawyer in dispute resolution in Vietnam for many years, most recently in the 2023 edition. In 2019, Benchmark Litigation Asia – Pacific honored Dzung as the lawyer of the year and a case led by Dzung was awarded the Regional Matter of the Year.

In 2020, Dzung is the only Vietnam based lawyer ranked as Asia’s Top 15 Litigators by Asian Legal Business (ALB). Dzung has been listed in the A-List of the top 100 lawyers practicing in Vietnam by Asia Business Law Journal (law.asia) since 2020.