Doing business in Vietnam

Investor: I am in Singapore wishes to start small scale garment business in Vietnam. Please advise me to register the company and other proecedures? Lawyer of SBLAW:This is reference to your email below. I am Corporate Lawyer of SB Law. I was entrusted to advise you for starting business in Vietnam. From...

We are considering now to establish a foreign owned instead of local entity company as Paypal. Can you please advise the procedure and documents needed to submit. Answer: For obtain license to act as Paypal, the minimum investment capital that you have to contribute in Vietnam is 2,500,000USD. After obtaining the Investment...

Question: We are into extending our company. We are planning to open a company in Hanoi, Vietnam. Requesting you to advice us in this regards. Answer: We understand that Client is now seeking legal advices for establishment of foreign investment company in Hanoi, Vietnam (hereinafter referred to as “FIC”). We therefore...

The Vietnam Company has intention to open a representative office (hereinafter referred to as the “RO”) in China, we would like to provide some information as follows[...]

Investor: We are currently looking into changing our structure from a rep office to a wholly foreign owned  Vietnamese company. Can you run me through step by step what needs to happen if we decide to proceed. I thought you would be the right person to know. Lawyer of SBLAW:Thank...

The establishment of Company (NewCo) requires an Investment Certificate from the licensing authority[...]

Question:  Our company is a Vietnamese company, 100% invested by Singapore Mother Company. We are planning a closure of this company (liquidation) and would like to receive a legal opinion as well as performance fee and proposal for the service of company liquidation. Issues on legal opinion How to close the company...

SBLAW would like to note that an important matter of representative office (R.O) in Vietnam is Personal Income Tax of Employees working for R.O.

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?