Doing business in Vietnam

Question: Our company would like to close the foreign representative office in Vietnam. Please quote. Answer: We understand that your company in abroad (hereinafter referred to as “Client”) is now considering closing its Representative Office in Hanoi, Vietnam (hereinafter referred to as “RO”). We therefore would like to send herewith our...

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...

We refer with thanks to the conservation from which we were requested to advice on possibilities of setting up a foreign invested company for doing business of Testing and Analysis on the field of software, hardware of computer and mobile phone by a Japanese Company (hereinafter referred to as...

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...

Question: We were asked to provide a company (the “Client”, i.e., the Issuer) in preparation for IPO in Hongkong with a consolidated fee quote for acting as the Issuer’s counsel. Because the Client’s primary operating subsidiary is in Vietnam (the “Vietnam Subsidiary”), we will have to work with a Vietnam law...

After obtaining the Establishment License for the Representative Office (RO), RO needs to implement the post-licensing procedure as follows[...]

We understand that your company (hereinafter referred to as “Client”) is now seeking legal advices for adjustment of Investment Certificate regarding changing its legal representative. We therefore are grateful to present you our Legal Services Proposal for your review and consideration. 1. INITIAL ADVICES In our experience, in order to change the...

Q: Our company has already a factory in Vietnam and we have a small spare space. One another company wants to use the space after setting up a company. The factory owner already agree on that. The business item is mobile phone parts manufacturer. Is this feasible? A: It shall be only possible...

Investor: Glad to e-meet you. Please allow me to briefly introduce ourselves. We are a SGX-listed company providing business solutions to mobile network operators. Our headquarter is based in Indonesia and we are currently looking at several investment prospects in tech start-ups in Vietnam, investing through a company incorporated in...

SBLAW would like to introduce the legal procedure for etting up a representative office in Ho Chi Minh City of Japan company as follows: