Doing business in Vietnam

We would like to provide legal advice on possibilities of setting up a foreign invested company providing product quality examination services in Hai Phong, Vietnam as follow.

SBLAW would like to mention about the difference between Branch and R.O in Vietnam as follows:

This is with regards to our discussion from which you requested us to advise for Vietnam local company (hereinafter referred to as “Client”) to transfer 100% equity to an foreign Investor (hereinafter referred to as “the Assignee”).  Thus, we are pleased to present herewith our Legal Service Proposal for...

Investor: Hello SB Law team, 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? I would...

Question: We are foreign investor and would like to establish the company in Vietnam obtaining import export tax incentives, please advise the details: Answer: Pursuant to your above question in which we are required to support you in providing our legal opinion on the import duty exemption applicable to imported...

Client: We will like to set up a 100% owned branch office in Vietnam to conduct our business locally. Is this possible? What is the requirement of local directors, restriction on trade activities of foreign owned branch offices and the tax payable? Lawyer: This is reference to your email below. I...

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...

Question: I am a English teacher from USA and am now thinking of starting  a small, online English Language Service company in the USA  to provide English language services to Vietnamese and Asian students and companies. To start with, I am planning to hire a teacher in the USA but...

Question: Our company business covers interantional freight forwarding, warehousing and cross-border logistics. Now we are planing to set up a new company in Vietnam, could you give us a quotation about full service for foreigner start a physical operating company? Answer: SBLAW would like to reply you as follows:According to Vietnam’s...

Establishment of a pure local company in Vietnam is rather simple. For this option, Client shall have to appoint at least one local partner to act as owner of the pure local company.