Doing business in Vietnam

According to Vietnam-WTO Commitments, foreign investor is allowed to setup foreign owned company in Vietnam to provide financial management consulting services (CPC 89502)[...]

In Vietnam, Foreign Invested Company (FIC) can be divided into two following forms: (i) Wholly Foreign Owned Company wherein Foreign Investors shall own 100% capital of the Company and (ii) Joint Venture Company wherein Foreign Investor shall jointly setup company with at least one local partner. Generally, foreign investor is...

I represent a Hong Kong-based charitable organization, We would like to understand our options for setting up a legal entity in Vietnam, based in Ho Chi Minh City. Can your team provide advice on our options and then establish and administer a Vietnamese company for us?

Q: Do you think there will be a chance that foreign ownership restriction in the transportation sector might be loosened at least towards investors from ASEAN countries following AEC integration? A: According to my opinion, AEC shall not help much in this case. Purpose of AEC is to create an...

Investor:Good Morning, I would like to find out more about your Representative Office / Company Formation Services We are looking for a law firm we can refer our clients to. In addition any clients you refer to us for office space in Ho Chi Minh for their representative office. Best Regards Lawyer:This...

Question: We are a USA-based company looking for registration of a new Company in Vietnam without personal involvement to process of registration. The newly registered Vietnamese company will be used for setting up of a  merchant account in banks of Vietnam in order to start processing online transactions through Vietnamese...

Foreign investor: I'm writing on a question of registering representative office of international company in Vietnam. We have international consulting company, registered on USA which is operating a year and we want to register representative office of it in Hanoi city. Can you please consult me on the following...

Q:  I have some questions relating to our representative office in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. 1.    How much the cost to close the representative office ? 2.    Can we leave Rep Office dormant…if so, at what cost...? 3.    Can we re-open the entity at our discretion as some point in the...

Client: I intend set up a company in HCM, as a buying house handling export products out of Vietnam and trading local market, what are the requirments and easy way to set up, thanks Lawyer:This is reference to your message below. I am Corporate Lawyer of SB Law. I was...

This is reference to our meeting from which we were requested to advice on possibilities of setting up a 100% foreign invested company providing foreign language training services and coffee shop in Hanoi, Vietnam.   We are grateful to set our legal services proposal for your review and consideration as follows:   1....