Leadership
Experienced Leadership. Multidisciplinary Perspective. One Firm.
W&A is led by a multidisciplinary leadership team bringing together extensive experience in legal, tax, finance, accounting, business advisory, human resources, ESG, transactions and private wealth.
Our senior leaders combine nearly two decades of experience in Vietnam with international and cross-border exposure, having worked as professional advisers, corporate executives, finance leaders, lawyers, accountants, tax specialists, business advisers and subject-matter experts.
This combination of professional and corporate experience shapes W&A’s approach: technically rigorous, commercially focused and grounded in practical implementation.
While the Managing Partner provides overall strategic leadership to the firm, W&A’s practices are supported and led by experienced professionals across multiple disciplines, ensuring that clients benefit from the collective judgement and capabilities of a broader leadership team rather than reliance on any single individual.
Phan Hoai Nam
CEO & Managing Partner
Lawyer | LL.M. | DBA | FCCA | CPA Australia | ADIT | CPA Vietnam | Tax & Customs Professional
Arbitrator, VIAC
Lecturer, Law and ACCA
Phan Hoai Nam is the Managing Partner of W&A and a multidisciplinary professional with nearly 20 years of experience across legal, tax, finance, accounting, customs, investment, corporate governance, banking, regulatory compliance and business advisory.
His career combines senior professional advisory experience with executive leadership inside multinational businesses, giving him an unusually broad perspective on the legal, financial, regulatory and commercial issues faced by businesses, investors and entrepreneurs. The attached profile highlights his experience leading complex matters in international tax, corporate restructuring, tax audits, finance, legal and risk functions.
Rather than approaching legal, tax or financial issues in isolation, he is known for bringing together commercial objectives, legal defensibility, tax efficiency, financial implications and implementation practicality when developing solutions for clients.
His experience spans domestic and international corporations, foreign investors, entrepreneurs and private clients, with particular exposure to complex and cross-border matters.
Professional & Academic Qualifications
His qualifications reflect the multidisciplinary nature of his practice:
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Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) , Switzerland
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Master of Laws (LL.M.), France
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Attorney-at-Law qualification – Vietnam
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Advanced Diploma in International Taxation (ADIT) – Chartered Institute of Taxation, United Kingdom
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Fellow Chartered Certified Accountant (FCCA) – Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, United Kingdom
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CPA Australia
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Vietnam Certified Public Accountant (CPA Vietnam)
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Licensed Tax Agent
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Licensed Customs Agent
The combination of qualifications in law, accounting, taxation, finance and business administration supports a genuinely multidisciplinary approach to advisory work.
Professional Roles & Recognition
In addition to his leadership role at W&A, his professional activities include:
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Arbitrator of the Vietnam International Arbitration Centre (VIAC)
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Member of the SIAC List of Arbitrators
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Member of the VIAC Expert Council on FinTech & Digital Economy
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Lecturer at the Judicial Academy
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Lecturer for ACCA programmes
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Professional involvement with organizations in the legal, accounting and tax professions
He has also been recognized for his contributions to the professional community, including being named ACCA Advocate of the Year. These qualifications, professional roles and recognition are reflected in the attached leadership profile.
Multidisciplinary Leadership Experience
Before leading W&A, his professional career included senior roles in both professional advisory services and corporate management.
His background includes leadership responsibility for international tax advisory, legal matters, corporate restructuring, tax audit support and multidisciplinary professional engagements, as well as an in-house executive role overseeing finance, tax, legal, compliance and risk functions for a multinational business.
This combination allows him to understand an issue from both perspectives: the adviser who develops the solution and the executive who must implement it. That philosophy has become an important part of W&A’s broader approach to client service.