Doing business in Vietnam

Question: I'm one of the investor seeking for investment in Vietnam. First of all, I would like to know about time period from the initialize until final process of company registration in break down step. Also, total expenses and evidences, for example; documents, capital, board of meeting, charter and...

SBLaw would like to provide legal advice on possibilities of setting up a foreign invested company providing foreign language training services in Vietnam as follows:

Foreign investor: Dear Sirs I am writing on behalf of a Hongkong registered company. I understand from your webpage that you specialise in services for establishing and closing representative office in Vietnam. We have 2 Representative offices in Vietnam (Hanoi and Hochiminh City) and we intend to close one of them (Hanoi...

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...

SBLAW would like to provide you the legal service for domain name registration in Vietnam as follows: 1. Fee schedule - Fee for registering domain name .vn (USD80 per name ) - Fee for registering domain name .com (USD70 per name)   2. Time line Normally, the registration proceeding will be completed in 15 days. 3....

Question: Is the Representative Office (RO) a kind of legal entity ? What is main function of the Representative Office (RO)? Could you please also let us know the fees and requirements to set up the RO?

SBLaw would like to provide you some information about Vietnam company registration as follows: Under Vietnam Enterprise Law, foreign investors are entitled to form Foreign Invested Company ("FIC") under either of Wholly Foreign Invested Company or Joint Venture Company.

Supplementation of business activities and investment objective is considered as expansion of investment project. According to our practical experience, in case the Foreign Owned Company would like to expand scope of business activities, particularly, the approval shall very much depend on following factors: Audited Income Statement of the Client in...

Answer: Under Vietnam Law on Investment and Vietnam WTO’s Commitments, the foreign investors are not allowed to operate the “domain name trading”.

The foreign company must: - Being recognized as a legal entity by countries or territories of business registration;