Doing business in Vietnam

1.The establishment of a Foreign invested company (FIC) including Joint Venture Company in Vietnam requires an Investment Certificate from the licensing authority.

Investor: We are American corporation providing Immigration Services. As far as I can see on your website, we can open Rep Office in Ho Chi Minh and offer our services with one limitation - that the client have to pay to USA. Is that correct? Do we have to hire local...

Question: We are interested in establishing of the representative office of our company in Hanoi. My boss has two companies, one is registered in Thailand, the other is registered in Republic of Seychelles, so he wants to know more about the details about setting up a representative office. 1. what kind...

Investor: We have been working together to open a JSC in 2012. We would like now to close the company. Could you please give us an estimation of your fees to cover all administrative procedures with authorities? Could you also please let us know a possible timeline.   Lawyer of SBLAW: Under the...

SB Law would like to share information foreign investor should be aware of when running a company in Vietnam, under Q&A as follows:   1/ What would be the best legal entity?   Among the most common and available investment vehicles to foreign investors including "company limited", "joint-stock company (shareholding company)", "business-cooperation contract",...

Question: We wish to have your advice if there is any State regulation or applicable laws to state the minimum age of an individual for acceptance as guest.  This is assuming that the guest is alone so what is the minimum age we can accept the booking by law. ...

Question:  We are essentially looking to enter Vietnam to offer retail banking services. We haven't yet decided on the entry mode and are open to all possible options ranging from 100% foreign owned bank, joint-venture bank or a foreign bank branch. We are not really sure on pros and...

In case foreign investor (Client) is willing to engage a law firm on advices regarding obtaining Investment Certificate to form a wholly foreign invested company in Vietnam, SBLaw is qualified for above mentioned requirements and is willing to advice Client regarding above said requests[...]

In order to assist foreign investor (hereinafter referred to as “Client”) to establish 100% foreign owned enterprise with the business function of construction consultancy (including designing and supervising consultancy) in Vietnam, SBLaw (hereinafter referred to as “Consultant”) would like to provide the Client with such services.

Client: Hello,We would like to inquire on legal service for corporate, such as setting up Representative Office of Foreign company in Vietnam  HCMC. Please kindly get back to us asap.  Lawyer: As discussed with you through mobile, we would like to reconfirm as follows: - For import and distribution of cosmetic products,...