Doing business in Vietnam

Entrepreneurs wish to incorporate and register a new firm in Vietnam, SBLAW would like to provide some information about Forms of ownership of a small business in Vietnam as follows:

Question: We require a branch office to handle Quality control and all scheduling of customers orders. We do no shipments or import and export  and we are paid a fixed fee to our accounts overseas. Answer: We understood that you intend to setup an office in Ho Chi Minh City...

SBLaw was requested to assist foreign company (Hereinafter referred to as “Client”) to provide legal advice on company acquisition in Vietnam. 1. Our proposd scope of works We anticipate that our work will comprise of the following work streams. These are the key work streams required in any M&A cases. Depending on...

Question: We are FDI company in Vietnam and would like to amend Investment Registration Certificate (“IRC”) and Enterprise Registration Certificate (“ERC’’) in order to reflect supplementing business line of non-life insurance, please advise? Answer: We refer with thanks to your call from which we were requested to assist you regarding amendment of...

According to the Article No. 12 of Decree No. 25/2011/ND-CP of the Government dated April 6th, 2011 on detailing and guiding some articles of Telecommunication Law, before the resale of fixed telecommunication services to users in a location that have specified address and ranges for which the legal usage...

Client: We have communicate with a company whom are customers of ours in your state regards merging, we like to merge with the company to increased revenue, market share, and cross-selling opportunities. We would like to retain you to help us in the process to review proposed transactions for acquisitions...

Being well aware of that Merge and Acquisition (M&A) transactions are expected to configure an investment trend in Vietnam, SBLAWs’ lawyers and experts have worked out an unique set of solutions and research including legal frameworks, roadmaps that directly address M&A issues in order to minimize potential risks.

Under Vietnam Law, there is no specific legal instrument promulgating on use of personal data. However, this matter is mentioned in several law instruments of Vietnam like Vietnam Civil Code 2005 and law instruments regarding to electronic commerce and information technology. According to the Article No. 38 of Vietnam Civil...

Having known that foreign investor (hereinafter referred to as “The Client”) is planning to develop the project of distributing cosmetic products and wishes to engage a Vietnamese law firm to perform all relevant procedures for setting up 100% foreign owned company with business function of distributing such cosmetic products,

Under Vietnam Law, foreign company can also establish the Branch Office to carry out business activities in Vietnam. However, this form is not very popular in practice except for branch office of foreign law firms, foreign bank and insurance company. With respect to the foreign trade companies and foreign tourist companies,...